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by Dyana Bagby
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May 10, 2013 00:00 |
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Nearly 200 metro Atlanta gay men participated in the national HIV vaccine trial named HVTN-505, known locally as Life Forward, before it was stopped last month after an oversight committee saw in preliminary results that people were being infected despite being vaccinated.
For Dr. Mark Mulligan, principal investigator of the Life Forward vaccine trial at Emory’s Hope Clinic, the news came as a huge disappointment.
“I was like, ‘Oh, wow.’ I felt a sort of shock and disbelief and disappointment. And there was some emotion,” he said.
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by Staff
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May 10, 2013 00:00 |
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Ga. governor changes day against ‘homophobia’ to ‘mistreatment’
Ga. Gov. Nathan Deal has done it again. For the second time in as many years, Deal’s office issued a proclamation requested by organizers of the International Day Against Homophobia — but only after sanitizing it into “Mistreatment Awareness Day” and removing any reference to LGBT rights.
The renamed event is sadly ironic, Georgia organizer Betty Couvertier observed last year.
“They couldn’t even use the word homophobia,” Couvertier, who asked for the proclamation, said then. “This [proclamation] is a documentation of homophobia.”
Organizers launched a Change.org petition to get Deal to issue a proclamation honoring the real observance, but at press time May 7, he hadn’t obliged. Meanwhile, plans for Atlanta’s International Day Against Homophobia start with and culminate with an evening event with speakers and performers May 17.
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by Dyana Bagby
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May 08, 2013 09:47 |
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Atlanta City Councilmember Alex Wan in an email today to constituents said he would only target adult businesses in his proposed rezoning ordinances for Cheshire Bridge Road. That means car washes and auto body shops, which were included in the original legislations to be zoned out, are safe for now.
He also is extending the amortization period for the adult business to five years, rather than the original two years.
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by Chris Johnson / Washington Blade
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May 07, 2013 20:46 |
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) are leading a group of lawmakers in the House and Senate preparing to introduce legislation that would prohibit anti-LGBT bias in adoption and foster care services.
The legislation, known as the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, would restrict federal funds for public child welfare agencies if they have laws or practices allowing for discrimination in adoption on the basis of marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill would also prohibit discrimination against LGBT children seeking families.
Gillibrand emphasized the importance of the legislation on Tuesday during a news conference on Capitol Hill as a means to ensure LGBT families seeking to adopt can do so without fear of anti-gay bias.
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by Ryan Watkins
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May 07, 2013 17:03 |
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MondoHomo, Atlanta's Memorial Day Weekend queer arts festival, is canceled, according to event co-founder Kiki Carr. The decision came earlier this year when organizers felt it was time to move on.
"I think it will reinvent itself," Carr said today about the future of the festival.
"Basically the core group of folks that started it are tired and want to move on other projects," she continued. "We've been slowly coming to that conclusion for a while, but probably came to an agreement in the last two months."
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