To coincide with National Suicide Prevention Week — September 5-11 — The Trevor Project has announced Y-CARE, which stands for “You-Connect Accept Respond Empower.”
The youth-focused project aims to help all people know how to act at a time of extreme crisis for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning young persons.
“It is not easy to [...]

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Competitive instinct and a desire to succeed drive straight women and gay men to lose weight, according to a study published in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior.
Researchers surveyed the attitudes of individuals after they viewed profiles of successful (but not exceptionally thin or attractive) people and found that straight women and gay men [...]

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Finally, the stalker-friendly Facebook application Foursquare is using its powers for good.
The app, which awards “badges” for frequent “check-ins” to places like the bar or the gym, will allows you to announce to friends when you “check in” to the bar, the gym or the office, now offers a special badge for those who check [...]

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Cascade AIDS Project announced today that it will now offer its Rapid HIV Testing to anyone seeking one, from their offices at 208 SW 5th Ave. on the 8th floor. CAP previously only offered this test to high risk populations. Now, anyone can get a rapid HIV test, risk reduction counseling, and results in just [...]

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LGBTQ youth are more likely to smoke than their heterosexual peers, according to a report from the National LGBTQ Young Adult Tobacco Project released Tuesday, August 24.
The project surveyed nearly 1,000 LGBTQ youth (ages 18-24) and found that 48 percent were current smokers, 9 percent were former smokers and 20 percent of “non-smokers” were “social [...]

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has been offered one million dollars to take a supplement purported to banish grey hair.
The Sun-Sentinel reports:
“The offer comes from Rise-N-Shine, the makers of Go Away Gray. ‘We feel like Anderson Cooper is a really visible and well-respected figure and thought he would be a great spokesperson for the product and [...]

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Lady who? Goo Goo? The GOO GOO DOLLS ARE PLAYING TONIGHT?! Oh wait, no. Nevermind. While some of you may have been lucky enough to obtain tickets to tonight’s ridiculously huge Lady Gaga concert at the Rose Garden (where there are currently some 58 semi-trucks loading in all manner of ocular fodder), there’s a lot [...]

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Let’s talk about sex. Like, what does it even mean? While it would be easy to assume there’s a standard definition for the act, most queer folks know it’s not that simple. A recent study by the Kinsey Institute highlights how the definition of sex varies even between U.S. and U.K. gay men, The Advocate [...]

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A coalition of LGBTQ rights organizations applauded Monday the Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement about changes in the way the “abstinence-only-until-marriage” sex education program will be administered, The National Center for Trangender Equality reports.
States will now be able to choose which parts of the program they will highlight, rather than being required to [...]

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Involvement in same-sex romantic relationship has “protective effects” for teens, according to a new University of Michigan study that sought to evaluate the impact of same-sex and opposite-sex relationships on self-esteem, internalized homophobia, depression and anxiety in youngsters.
According to HealthCanal, the study showed that same-sex relationships improved self-esteem in teen males and prevented against internalized [...]

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