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Same-Sex Couple Rejected by Senior Living Community Because Their Marriage Doesn’t Meet ‘Biblical Definition’ Mary Walsh, 72, and Bev Nance, 68, have been together for four decades. They legally married in 2009, and wanted to move into a senior living community so they could grow old together and receive medical care if needed as they aged. They met several times with Friendship Village Sunset Hills (photo) in St. Louis, Missouri, and even placed a $2000 deposit and signed on to a waiting list. But just days before they were to sign a residency agreement and pay an additional deposit, the company called them asking about the nature of their relationship. They were told that Friendship Village Sunset Hills was rejecting them because they are lesbians in a same-sex marriage. Now they're suing. “We’ve been together for nearly 40 years and have spent our lives in St. Louis. We want to grow older here by each other’s side,” Mary Walsh says in a statement. “We should not be

Comunidad LGBTTQIA se enfrenta al discrimen al buscar servicios de salud Por José Karlo Pagán 07/26/2018 |11:45 p.m.    "Es triste que una persona decida pasar una enfermedad sola, a pulmón, por miedo” Deborah es negra, adicta a sustancias controladas, con diversidad funcional y una mujer trans. Un cúmulo de minorías que, a la hora de buscar servicios de salud, se convertía en un calvario a un acceso justo y equitativo. En sus ganas de desintoxicarse y comenzar una “nueva vida” acudió a un centro especializado para la comunidad LGBTTQIA (lésbico, gay, bisexual, trangénero, transexual, queer, intersexual y asexual). Luego de un chequeo médico, lo primordial para su mejoría era ingresarla a un centro de desintoxicación. Los especialistas intentaron con más de 10 entidades y, a pesar de que le ofrecían adiestramiento gratuito, la respuesta siempre fue la misma: “La podemos aceptar, pero como hombre, con los varones. Si quiere entrar tiene que recortars

Republicans vote to make it legal nationwide to ban gays & lesbians from adopting By Sarah Toce · Thursday, July 12, 2018   The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed an amendment allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child based on religious objection . The amendment appears on a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. If it remains in the final bill, the amendment would cut 15% of federal adoption funding to states and localities that penalize adoption agencies that refuse to place children in families that conflict with the agency’s “sincerely held religious beliefs or convictions.” The amendment also bars the federal government from refusing to work with adoption agencies that discriminate. The vote in the committee was 29-23, along party lines, with Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) the lone Republican to vote against the amendment. “House Republicans

Nearly one third of gay people ‘swipe left’ on HIV-positive dating app users Ella Braidwood 6 th July 2018, 12:0 Three in 10 lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people ‘swipe left’ to reject people who are HIV-positive but on effective treatment, according to new data. The latest research – carried out by YouGov for sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust – also revealed that more than half (51 percent)  of LGB respondents do not believe that people living with HIV on effective medication can’t pass it on. The statistics showed that about a further quarter (24 percent) of LGB people ‘don’t know’ which way they would swipe on a dating app for a HIV-positive user, who is on effective treatment.  On many dating apps – like Tinder and Grindr  – users can swipe left to reject another person, or swipe right to indicate that they like them. Some dating apps, like Grindr and Hornet, allow users to state their HIV status, including if they are having treatmen