Elizabeth Kuhr

In honor of World AIDS Day, a Toronto pop-up spa is hoping to combat HIV stigma and discrimination by offering free facials and massages by people living with HIV.

With school closures, reduced services at LGBTQ community centers and a lack of family support, these young Americans are particularly vulnerable.

The rainbow flag’s removal followed a complaint by a local defense lawyer who compared the LGBTQ pride symbol to a swastika and the Confederate flag.

“There is this feeling you are targeted,” one LGBTQ activist in St. Petersburg said.

Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel kept their relationship hidden for over 60 years, finally deciding to live openly in the final chapter of their love story.

Starting in September, the curriculum will include LGBTQ-related health and relationship education.

The blood shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic had reignited calls for a policy change.

“We owe it to ourselves to be able to dream about doing what we want to do, and trying to actually achieve it,” Deputy Minister Nicholas Yatromanolakis said.

Crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity have increased almost every year since at least 2015, according to data from England, Wales and Scotland.

“What we’re witnessing now is a revitalization of pan-Arabism,” Danyel Reiche, a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, told NBC News.