News 2015
Qualified Trainers Sought for MSM Health Literacy Project
Health literacy training
John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and the Black AIDS Institute (BAI) are introducing the Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau's (HAB) Health Literacy Project Targeting Adult and Young Black/African American Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).
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Study: For Gay Children, Bullying Begins Early, Happens Often: LGBT students experience higher levels of peer harassment as early as fifth grade
Bullying hurts
Bullying starts as early as elementary and middle school, and occurs more frequently for students who later identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, a new study suggests.
The study found that from fifth through 10th grade, children who later identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual were nearly twice as likely to be victims of weekly bullying during the previous year.
We're Dying Too
Stop the violence
On March 21, 2012 a group of four young black people—two women and two men—were standing in an alley on the West Side of Chicago talking about how they were going to get home from the party they had just left. It's a scenario so common almost any one of us can remember a similar moment in our lives.
In This Issue
This week we run the final installment in our series of profiles about the 2015 Heroes in the Struggle Award winners—that of Empire star and longtime HIV/AIDS activist Jussie Smollett.
Jussie Smollett: An Activist to the Core
Jussie Smollett, currently starring as Jamal Lyon in the Fox music-industry primetime soap opera "Empire"
When Jussie Smollett was growing up, there were two things over which his mother gave him and his siblings no choice: "We weren't allowed to choose whether we loved each other," he says. "We also had no choice whether we were activists or not."