MyNews13BY Emma Delamo OrlandoMay 30, 2025LGBT+ Center Orlando was established in 1978. The center provides multiple services in Central Florida, including HIV and STI testing.Chief Administrative Officer Marshall Turner says 650 to 700 people walk in for HIV testing each month, making it one of the largest testing sites in Central Florida.“Sexual health is everybody’s responsibility; it’s not just something specific to the LGBTQ+ community,” said Turner.Turner said a test only takes 15 minutes and is free to patients, due to funding. Programs such as the 340B Drug Pricing Program allow organizations to prescribe medications for free.“It’s a service that is so vital to so many people in the country and it is one of the things that as we’ve looked at cuts from Washington and cuts from local government,” Turner said. “We are afraid that one day that 340B program might get cut.”According to federal statistics, 1.2 million people in the United States live with HIV. The virus has killed more than 700,000 Americans since 1981.However, preventative and treatment options are available, changing the lives for the thousands of people who receive a positive test back.
Cuts to HIV/AIDS funding hurt everyone. One in four people with AIDS are straight! But the Republicans, in their bigotry—and thanks to Reagan—still think of it as a "gay disease."
AP NewsBy CARLA K. JOHNSONMarch 24, 2025A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded, according to a government website. Some of the grant money has already been spent, but at least $1.36 million in future support was yanked as a result of the cuts, a significant undercount because estimates were available for less than a third of grants.Most were in some way related to sexual minorities, including research focused on HIV prevention. Other canceled studies centered on cancer, youth suicide and bone health.Health and Human Services spokesman Andrew Nixon said the agency is “dedicated to restoring our agencies to their tradition of upholding gold-standard, evidence-based science.” The grants were awarded by the National Institutes of Health, an agency under HHS.
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“When you decide to cancel all the grants on sexual minorities, you really slow down scientific discovery, for everyone,” Rosser said. Young researchers will lose their jobs, and the field as a whole will suffer, he added.“It’s a loss of a whole generation of science,” Rosser said.
Translated from Newspeak's Gibberisheze means, “We are quietly pulling the plug on research for the LGBTQ+ community that we don’t want to fund anymore because we are bigots, but we’re coating it in noble-sounding language so no one panics or protests.”
SF GateBy Amanda Bartlett,June 8, 2025On Saturday, the only organization of its kind in Oakland reached a milestone.The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center prepared for over a year leading up to this moment — applying for grants to rent out space, purchasing furniture and other necessary equipment and hiring staff — so it could finally open a brand new satellite space in East Oakland. Complete with a health clinic and trans wellness center, the goal of the new facility is to respond to “critical health needs facing low-income LGBTQ people and communities of color in the area,” the group wrote in a May press release. But in the months leading up to the long-awaited expansion of its vital programming, the East Bay institution says it’s been “fighting to survive.”[...]It’s a place where queer people can safely seek out medical testing and services such as PreP and hormone injection assistance. Such resources have proven critical during a time when one in six LGBTQ adults in the U.S. have reported avoiding health care due to anticipated discrimination or stigma from their doctors, the Oaklandside reported per the National Institutes of Health.
Senior centers are also on Trump's "Hit List"
The funding cuts, aimed at programs that deal with diversity and gender, pose a danger to organizations in New York City that are also losing corporate sponsors.The New York TimesBy Liam StackJune 29, 2025George Kwast spent 15 years mostly alone in his apartment in Manhattan after he retired in 2009, reading, watching television and thinking about friends who had moved away or died.Then he visited the Edie Windsor SAGE Center, which relies on a mix of private and public funding to provide services for older L.G.B.T.Q. adults, who face far higher rates of isolation and poverty than their heterosexual peers.Since that day last year, Mr. Kwast’s life has changed. He has new friends who invite him to dinner parties or join him at the center for book clubs, bingo and karaoke nights. He performs midcentury hits by Irving Berlin and Perry Como.
I have been to the town's senior center and they are most accepting... but their clients are not. Nothing was said, nothing was done and that was the problem, being shunned. Being shunned by the residents.
But the Edie Windsor center and other L.G.B.T.Q. social service organizations now face a threat to their existence from the Trump administration, which has paired a zeal for aggressive budget cuts with an undisguised hostility toward diversity programs and the transgender community.The most immediate danger stems from executive orders that President Trump issued soon after taking office in January, which barred federal contractors like the center from using diversity, equity and inclusion policies.[...]“We have every reason to believe that by the end of the summer all of the remainder of our direct federal funding will be eliminated,” he said. “These can just sound like numbers on budget spreadsheets, but this is about people and their lives.”Roughly 35 percent of SAGE’s budget of $21 million comes from public funding, including $1.5 million in direct federal support, Mr. Adams said. SAGE also projects that it will lose about $1 million in corporate donations this year, part of a wider trend that has seen companies retreat from L.G.B.T.Q. causes and other activities that could be construed as an endorsement of D.E.I.
Back in the 1930 the Nationalist Socialist Party also went after LGBT people and put them in concentration camps... you know that "Pink Triangle" that you see on a lot of LGBTQ+ websites, do you know the history of it? The History Channel writes...
Before the pink triangle became a worldwide symbol of gay power and pride, it was intended as a badge of shame. In Nazi Germany, a downward-pointing pink triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men in concentration camps—to identify and further dehumanize them. It wasn’t until the 1970s that activists would reclaim the symbol as one of liberation.Homosexuality was technically made illegal in Germany in 1871, but it was rarely enforced until the Nazi Party took power in 1933. As part of their mission to racially and culturally “purify” Germany, the Nazis arrested thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals, mostly gay men, whom they viewed as degenerate.
We worn them on the way to the concentration camps and the gas chambers! Trump has leaned that he can built a concentration camp in eight day!
Perhaps the worst cuts are...
CEO of The Trevor Project called on Congress to reverse the “fatal decision”PeopleBy Vanessa EtienneJune 20, 2025NEED TO KNOW
- The Trump administration will be shutting down the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ youth services on July 17
- A spokesperson for the White House said the move is to avoid the embrace of “radical gender ideology"
- CEO of The Trevor Project called on Congress to reverse the “fatal decision” and stressed that “suicide prevention is about people, not politics”
The Trump Administration will be shutting down the national LGBTQ youth suicide hotline.On Tuesday, June 17, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced that in 30 days, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth services.Effective July 17, the agency will “no longer silo LGB+ youth services” in order to “focus on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option.”
But notice something deeply disturbing: “LGB+ youth services”! By order of Trump, the supreme ruler, any mention of us is verboten. We are being erased. We were written off of the Stonewall plaque!
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