Global Health And The Politics Of Catastrophe
Who will save us from the WHO and its new world order?
February 9, 2022
Who will save us from the WHO and its new world order?
This in-depth interview with PANDA founder and chairman Nick Hudson provides a comprehensive update on the Covid-19 story moving from Boris Johnson’s actions supporting the view that Omicron signals the pandemic’s end through to Robert Kennedy’s highly critical bestseller on “The Real” Anthony Fauci.
Trade union Solidarity has launched a legal challenge against the University of the Free State (UFS) over its planned mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policy for staff and students.
Faith-based schools would not be able to expel gay students, but would retain the right to expel transgender students under draft amendments to a contentious religious discrimination bill package that moderate Liberals say they cannot support.
In 1971, director Roy Ward Baker adapted Robert Louis Stevenson’s legendary 1886 novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” with a gender subversion twist, giving the world the queer horror classic, “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.”
A bipartisan group of Arizona lawmakers that includes the Republican House speaker announced Monday they were introducing legislation that would for the first time protect gay and transgender people from discrimination by businesses, landlords and employers.
The Melbourne Pride Street party is the final Midsumma Festival event for the year that will take place on Smith and Gertrude Streets in Fitzroy on Sunday, February 13.
Johannesburg, 3 February 2021 The Dutch government has eased restrictions previously placed on Southern African countries due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant making it easier for tourists from South Africa to travel to The Netherlands. It is now possible for fully vaccinated travellers from South Africa to enter The Netherlands with no quarantine restrictions.
Iata’s announcement of its full-year global passenger traffic results for 2021 show a slow improvement in the fortunes of airlines. The impact of the Omicron crisis in December, on Africa specifically, is also clearly visible.
The phasing out of measures in response to COVID-19 will begin on 9 February 2022.
Cape Town-based outreach organisation, Triangle Project, believes that this is a landmark case as one of their first-ever successful convictions in the rape of a gay male.
(CNN) — Could brighter days be ahead? Travel and tourism are expected to return to almost pre-pandemic levels this year, and a top health official says Europe could be about to enter “a long period of tranquility.”
The announcement coincides with the establishment of Optus’ new LGBTQIA+ employee network called Express Yourself – part of Optus’ Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging strategy.
In this day and age, no actor, model or musician fits into a particular box. Gone are the days of stereotypes, these are the times of diverse and successful people.
The number of new HIV diagnoses among straight people is higher than in gay and bisexual men for the first time in a decade, the latest figures show.
SA’s Afrigen Biologics has used the publicly available sequence of Moderna’s mRNA Covid-19 vaccine to make its own version of the shot, which could be tested in humans before the end of this year, Afrigen’s top executive said on Thursday.
British researchers discovered that an HIV variant has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades that is more contagious and can also lead to AIDS more quickly than other variants of the virus. The amount of virus in the blood is 3.5 to 5.5 times higher in this VB variant, the researchers from the University of Oxford report in the scientific journal Science.
Anti-gay laws endanger local queer people more than tourists, but gay visitors may also face consequences simply for who they love.
I know exactly what it’s like to attend a school where homosexuality is frowned upon, and in which petrified, vulnerable, secretly gay students – as I was – are viewed as shameful and sinful. And I know the lifelong effects of indoctrinating such prejudice into children’s minds.
In the wake of two recent tragedies, OUT LGBT Well-being is highlighting the disproportionately high rate of mental health challenges faced by LGBT+ people and the lack of services to provide them with affirming care.
The internationally recognised Tourism Sentiment Index (TSI) has ranked four tourism destinations in the DA-governed Western Cape as their top 100 Most Loved Destinations in the World list. TSI ranked Knysna as 19, Stellenbosch as 23, Hermanus as 41 and Cape Town as 54.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics begin on February 4, with the opening ceremony and Parade of Nations taking place early Friday morning US time. More than 30 out LGBTQ athletes will be competing at these Winter Games, a record-breaking number twice that of the 15 out athletes that competed at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. This will also be the first time China has hosted the Winter Olympics.
Two best mates who quit their jobs to pursue a men’s swimwear brand have turned over more than $1million in sales thanks to the rush of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.
LGBTI campaigners Elżbieta, Anna and Joanna were tried for ‘offending religious beliefs’. The trio faced two years in jail after sharing posters depicting Virgin Mary with rainbow-coloured halo.
Nyle DiMarco is booking a trip to the Big Easy. The actor will appear in Peacock’s upcoming Queer as Folk reimagining as a charming grad student, TVLine has learned exclusively.
In its meeting on Monday, the committee heard LGBTI+ activists from Turkey.
South Africa’s state-owned power utility is resuming power cuts to prevent a total collapse of the grid as its coal-fired plants remain prone to breakdowns.
Thursday, January 27 – UBS today announced that it scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index (“CEI”).
Equality New York, New Pride Agenda, and the LGBT Community Center are collaborating on an effort to advance four LGBTQ initiatives in the state. Leaders of the groups gathered at Industry Bar in Manhattan on January 27 to roll out the policy plan.
“Straight-acting” — those two little words that represent a complicated social order of how a man is or isn’t supposed to present to the world.
According to the National Health Service (NHS), the idea that shoe size is linked to the size of someone’s penis is nothing more than an urban legend, reports LadBible.
At least 34 out LGBTQIA+ identifying athletes are heading to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games next month, reports OutSports. The figure is at least double the amount that competed in 2018, with the majority of out athletes now being men.
Associated Bank earns 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual assessment of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi have reportedly been put to death after first being arrested six years ago.
The authorities in Denmark don’t categorize the coronavirus a “socially critical disease” anymore due to a high vaccination rate
For Valentine’s Day, Pride Month or any other time of the year, it’s always good to know where you can find great romantic movies that celebrate love, LGBTQ+ style.
A gay Bollywood’s director has blasted the Indian government’s decision to ban his film about a gay army officer.
(Bloomberg) — Grindr, a popular gay dating app, has been removed from Apple Inc.’s App Store in China, days after Beijing said it was going to renew its campaign to police online content.
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France Outlaws Conversion Therapy – “There’s Nothing To Cure”
By Joshua Donovan
Posted on January 28, 2022
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France is introducing new legislation that will ban so-called “gay conversion therapy” and is bringing in harsher penalties for practitioners of the dangerous and widely discredited practice, reports ABC News.
Dominant strain which led to restrictions this month was first seen in another animal.