Health & Fitness
US: Trans adults have higher risk of poor health
(Reuters Health) – Transgender adults may be more likely to have unhealthy habits and medical issues that negatively impact their quality of life than people whose gender identity matches what it says on their birth certificates, a US study suggests. Researchers examined survey data from 3,075 transgender adults, as well as 719,567 adults who are […]
Queer Eye’s Fab Five: Self-Care and Love – Season 3 Trailer
The Emmy® Award-winning Queer Eye returns ready to transform the stylistically challenged and into hip and happening savants at the hands of the Fab Five. This season, these fearless ambassadors of taste are headed to Kansas City to bring their infectious brand of self-love, confidence and encouragement to a whole new roster of heroes. The series returned […]
Out Now! Jan/Feb 2019 Issue of EILE Magazine – FREE!
Welcome to the January/February 2019 issue of EILE Magazine! This issue has a basket full of treats in store for you – like wonderful musical duo, Kismit from the US, Irish Country singer-songwriter Richard Mulligan, Birch, and Scott De Buitléir interviews Béar Féile favourite, Paul M, and we have some Béar Féile news too. Scott […]
TENI Hosts First Trans Awareness Conference For Educators in Ireland
Benefits of knowledge and training on gender identity felt by schools, families and, most importantly, young people, says trans rights group. Young trans and gender non-conforming people in both primary and secondary school experience better outcomes when schools possess both the knowledge and the confidence to accommodate different gender identities in the classroom. This is […]
US: One in four pre-teen suicides may be LGBT youth
(Reuters Health) – Youth 12 to 14 years old who identify as LGBT are much more likely to die by suicide than their heterosexual peers, a disparity that persists but becomes less pronounced by early adulthood, a US study suggests. While 24 percent of the suicide deaths in the 12 to 14 age group were […]
US: LGBT+ groups dismiss Trump pledge to beat HIV by 2030 as empty rhetoric
Donald Trump’s pledge to halt all new HIV infections in the United States within a decade was dismissed as an “empty gesture” by activists who said his administration had stripped resources from those fighting the epidemic. Critics said the promise made in the State of the Union address was at odds with his actions, including […]
Living in Venezuela now is hard – Being LGBT+ makes it harder
Venezuela’s shrinking economy has sparked an exodus of LGBT+ people as the economic crisis has put the brakes on the country’s growing tolerance towards its gay and trans community, activists told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Not that Venezuela was ever an easy place to be different. For years, Daniel Arzola endured homophobic abuse from his […]
