August 20th, 2010
Lesbians wishing to become mothers who cannot pay for expensive fertility treatment are increasingly turning to the internet to find sperm donors and may therefore miss out on protection from the law, according to a new study. (more…)
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July 26th, 2010
A study by the UK Drug Policy Commission has found that substance misuse among lesbians and gay men is higher than in heterosexual people. (more…)
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July 20th, 2010
A gel has been developed which can reduce by the risk of contracting HIV by half. The vaginal gel, which should be applied before sexual intercourse, is the first HIV/AIDs protection available exclusively to women. (more…)
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July 8th, 2010
A procedure that deletes a single gene in female mice at the embryo stage can make the rodents attracted to other female mice, scientists in Korea have claimed. (more…)
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July 2nd, 2010
Doctors have approved a motion backing a call to ban the use of “conversion therapy” on the grounds that it is harmful and discredited. (more…)
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June 17th, 2010
A lesbian police officer who hanged herself at her home has allegedly accused her former colleagues of homophobia. (more…)
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June 14th, 2010
Children with lesbian parents perform better in school and have fewer behavioural problems than children of the same age of the general population, according to a new study. (more…)
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June 1st, 2010
The existence of a ‘gaydar’ in lesbians and gay people could well be true, according to research by Dutch scientists. (more…)
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March 23rd, 2010
New research into clinical trials in the USA has found that lesbian and gay participants are sometimes being deliberately excluded from participation. (more…)
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February 26th, 2010
Occasionally, and usually when I’ve been drinking, I like to tell people that I wasn’t born female; I’m trans, writes Ioana Poprowka. I don’t do it all that often, but the reaction is always the same: disbelief. As in “I never would have guessed!”
And you know what? I get a kick out of that. I like the fact that I’m under the radar. Unfortunately, this kind of steps on most of the points I’m about to make, but I’m just putting it out there for the sake of honesty. (more…)
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