DOSSIER: Ref 71 Donor Names Headed to Supreme Court?
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• Protect Marriage Washington is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the names of its anti-gay donors hidden. “Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered that the state file a written response on Monday.”
• With the AIDS Vaccine Conference beginning today in Paris, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative’s founder Seth Berkley argues that the Thai study — exposed as quite flawed — still has merit inside the AIDS research community: “But with news outlets reporting that the trial results may be a fluke, there is a risk that they will be forever tainted, whatever the final analyses show. What’s more, the stain of dubiousness may remain on all AIDS vaccine research and development. That would be a shame.”
• Irish hurler and national sports hero Donal óg Cusack comes out in his autobiography Come What May.
• The list of reasons why gay men are better than straight men is mostly about physical appearance. Duh.
• Glee‘s Cory Monteith gets all sorts of naked. Just not on the show.
• Lesbian high school senior Ceara Sturgis will not get to see her tuxedo photo run in the yearbook: Wesson Attendance Center is standing by its decision to ban it.
• Wanda Sykes hits the Equality Family Council event:
• British nightclub Pink has cut down on rowdy patrons with fake police van.
• Story after story about how not having ENDA in place affects Americans of all walks.
Notice the school doesn’t even bother to give a reason, only “we can do this; we checked!”
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What’s more, the stain of dubiousness may remain on all AIDS vaccine research and development.
The medical/research world have convinced themselves that circumcision will save the world and anything that counters that belief will be lambasted. As long as cosmetic surgery is being presented as a “cure” for HIV/AIDS, don’t expect a vaccine any time soon.