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Lesbian's brutal gang rape investigated as hate crime
By Associated Press LGBT advocacy groups note hate crimes based on sexual orientation are increasing SAN FRANCISCO ― A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an aban…
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Trans advocates protest Bush's 11th-hour HHS rule change
By Kevin Freking Associated Press Bush says change reinforces protections for doctors who refuse to participate in procedures due to religious or moral objections President George W. Bush’s administration last week issued a federal rule they say reinforces…
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
Barbara Cambridge, Ph.D., M.S.W., B.S., an associate professor in obstetrics and gynecology at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, received the Lifetime Achievement Award during the recent World AIDS Day Luncheon held by the North Texas HIV Service Provi…
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Deaths • 12.19.08
Dawar (David) R. Bokhari, 49, died of cancer Dec. 8, four days short of his 50th birthday, at Legacy Founders Cottage in Dallas. Born Dec. 12, 1958 in Pakistan, Bokhari had lived in the Dallas area for the past 33 years. He was educated at a private boardin…
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New Jersey Senate committee advances medical marijuana bill
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey moves closer to becoming the 14th state to allow patients to use marijuana for medical reasons. The Senate Health Committee advanced a bill Monday, Dec. 15 on the compassionate use of the drug by people suffering from AIDS, cancer…
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Deaths • 12.12.08
Herrera Joe Angel Herrera, born Dec. 5, 1961, died Monday, Dec. 1, due to complications from a motor vehicle accident. Born in El Paso, Herrera moved to Dallas where he established a successful career as a hair stylist. His friends said that to know him was…
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Nobel Prize-winning researcher predicts therapeutic HIV vaccine
By Louise Nordstrom Associated Press Therapeutic vaccine would inhibit progress of virus in those already infected; most of the recent focus has been on drugs to manage disease Luc Montagnier STOCKHOLM, Sweden — One of the scientists sharing the Nobel Prize…
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Cancer expected to be No. 1 killer by 2030
By Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer ATLANTA — Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday, Dec. 9. Risi…
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Manhattan center for homeless gay youth gets reprieve
By Marcus Franklin Associated Press NYC Department of Health restores funding after initial plan to redirect money in financial crunch NEW YORK — A Manhattan drop-in center for homeless gay youths — a high-risk group for contracting HIV — has been spared th…
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Deaths • 12.05.08
Chevalier Gary Spencer Chevalier, known to many in his drag persona “Precious Memories,” died suddenly at his home of natural causes on Nov. 30. He was 62. Chevalier worked for several years at the Kroger store on Cedar Springs as a courtesy clerk, a floris…
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Financial crisis takes its toll on NY AIDS center
By Marcus Franklin Associated Press Crunch hits donors’ pocketbooks at the same time state must cut back budget NEW YORK — Last spring, when officials at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan began organizing a fundraiser for its Comprehensive HIV Center, it did…
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Gays still hardest hit by AIDS
By Steve LeBlanc Associated Press BOSTON — Gay and bisexual men in Massachusetts continue to be the hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic according to a new report by the state Department of Public Health, which recommends the state step up its fight against the…
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