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On World AIDS Day, Obama announces more funding to domestic AIDS programs

By | 12.01.11 | 2:49 pm | More from The Florida Independent

President Obama announced today that $50 million in additional funds will be going toward treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.

Obama said during “The Beginning of the End of AIDS,” an online conference organized by ONE International, “a grassroots advocacy and campaigning More…

VIDEO: HIV/AIDS advocates propose measures to boost prevention and treatment

By | 12.01.11 | 2:32 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Gov. Rick Scott extended(PDF) “greetings and best wishes to all those observing” World AIDS Day today, while organizations in Florida and the U.S. are calling for action against the problems people living with HIV/AIDS are facing.

AINN reporters Todd Heywood, Marcos Restrepo discuss HIV/AIDS policy in America (video)

By | 11.17.11 | 2:18 pm

American Independent News Network reporters Todd Heywood, of The Michigan Messenger, and Marcos Restrepo, of The Florida Independent, have both reported extensively on HIV/AIDS policy around the country. They recently met to chat about the national HIV/AIDs Drug Assistance Program funding crisis and HIV criminalization laws around the More…

Experts: Michigan students given false information by Colorado-based abstinence-education program

An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.

Courts find conservatives can’t prove allegations of harassment by LGBT people

By | 11.15.11 | 3:18 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

The Minnesota for Marriage coalition, a group that is is urging voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has told the media and the Minnesota campaign finance board that if they have to disclose their donors, they will be subject to violence by supporters of marriage equality.

FBI says number of hate crimes holding steady

By | 11.14.11 | 3:03 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The number of hate crimes in the U.S. in 2010 increased slightly over 2009, according to a report released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation today. The number of incidents defined as hate crimes in 2010 totaled  6,628, an increase from 6,604 in 2009.

Romney’s new social-conservative team in Florida includes many anti-gay activists

By | 11.14.11 | 12:09 pm | More from The Florida Independent

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles.

Washington state to consider same-sex marriage in 2012

By | 11.11.11 | 12:54 pm

A day after the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) lauded Basic Rights Oregon’s decision not to push for a marriage-equality bill next year, news comes that Oregon’s northern neighbor Washington will attempt legalizing same-sex marriage in 2012.

AFTAH uses Penn State rape scandal as opportunity for anti-gay speech

By | 11.11.11 | 12:28 pm

The child molestation scandal at Penn State University has raised questions about the problems of idolizing successful college athletic programs to the point where university students feel justified in a violent demonstration in defense of a coach fired for keeping quiet about the alleged crimes of his More…

Polls differ on Minnesota public’s attitudes towards marriage amendment

By | 11.11.11 | 10:29 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Four polls have been released this week showing different results among Minnesota’s electorate a year before the the 2012 vote on the controversial amendment to add a ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution.