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As many of our writers enjoy the Memorial Day weekend here in the US by traveling to see family or hanging with friends, we look back at the top 2 stories from this weekend in the past years of 2013 to the present. Here's the second Top Story from 2015. Attention non-coffee drinkers: a cup of joe may be the secret to preventing erectile dysfunction (ED). Yep. A new study from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reveals...

A new report has found that two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland support same-sex marriage. The research, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and published by Queen’s University Belfast, was designed to discover what people think about the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland. As well as asking respondents what their attitudes to Brexit were, the researchers also asked about issues that are “hampering inter-party agreement to resurrect the Northern Ireland Executive”, including same-sex marriage. The study found...

A new study led by a Belgian neurologist found that brain activity in transgender people resembles that found in cisgender people of their gender more than their sex assigned at birth. Julie Bakker of the University of Liege led the research, which involved MRI scans of 160 transgender people diagnosed with gender dysphoria who were children and teenagers. The scans also measures brain microstructures using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging. Their brain scans were compared to people of comparable age...

Misinformation and fear led Drs. Jonathon Rendina and Jeffrey Parsons to explore whether gay and bi men actually believe that undetectable = untransmittable.. Last September, on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared that men with HIV who have an undetectable viral load—levels of HIV in the blood that are below the threshold of detection—are unable to transmit HIV to their partners. This is often summarized with the phrase Undetectable = Untransmittable or U...

The results of a global survey into masturbation have been released for ‘Masturbation May’ To coincide with Masturbation May (yes, that’s an actual thing), the results of a major survey into the masturbation habits of men and women around the world have been revealed. Sexual pleasure brand TENGA, in conjunction with pollsters PSB, surveyed 13,000 men and women, aged 18-74, in 18 countries. This included the US, India, UK, Australia, Japan, Russia and Germany. It identified a handful of differences between gay/bisexual...

"The average black trans person earns less than $10,000 a year." Though the gay rights movement in the United States has seen huge progress in the last century—especially the last two decades—a new report highlights a bleak reality: LGBT people are more likely than their peers to live in poverty. The report from the LGBTQ Poverty Collaborative finds that the needs of low-income LGBT communities are not being fully served by mainstream anti-poverty organizations or by LGBT advocacy groups. The study...

A new study published by the Archives of Sexual Behavior has found that, when it comes to gay sex, straight guys just can’t get enough. Researchers spoke to over 24,000 undergraduate students about their same-sex sexual experiences. They found that 1 in 8.5 straight-identifying men have had sex with other men yet don’t consider themselves to be gay or bi. “Not everybody who has same-sex relationships is secretly gay,” the study’s co-author, Arielle Kuprberg, says. “There was a big disconnect between...

A new study looking into what affects the end of relationships found that male same-sex couples were the least likely to break up. The study titled Longitudinal Predictors of Relationship Dissolution Among Same-sex and Heterosexual Couples, which was published in Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice, was written by Kimberly F. Balsam and Robert E. Wickham with Esther D. Rothblum co-authoring. For the study, the researchers followed 515 couples in Vermont from 2002 to 2014 and kept records of how...

Experts are calling for "robust culturally specific prevention programming." A new study suggests gay and bisexual people are much more likely to be victims of sexual violence. A 2016 survey conducted by the Utah Department of Health asked 10,000 residents if they’d ever suffered a sexual assault. Nearly half of all bisexual respondents (45.5%), and a third of lesbians and gays (33.6%), said they had been the victim of sexual violence at some point in their lives—compared to just 8.7% of...

Gay marriages are the least likely to end, a new study has shown. Two men who get hitched in the US have better odds of making it than their counterparts in lesbian and straight marriages, according to research by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The study, which tracked more than 500 couples in Vermont over the course of 12 years, also revealed that women in same-sex marriages were the most likely to break up. Unhappy lesbian couple sitting...

But little research has been done on cardiovascular health in sexual minorities. A new report indicates that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are more likely to develop heart disease than their heterosexual counterparts. Researchers at Miami’s Baptist Health South Florida Clinic researched data from more than 2,400 adults, including a diverse sampling of medical interviews and personal health exams. Only about 5% identified as gay or bisexual but, according to lead researcher Anshul Saxena, they face a “disproportionately high risk” for heart...

Groundbreaking news, folks: Some straight guys who suffer from erectile dysfunction with their female partners might not actually be straight. That’s the conclusion drawn in a report published by the British Society for Sexual Medicine, at least. The report estimates that as many as 100,000 British men with ED might not actually have ED and are instead struggling with their sexuality. Researchers say that only “a small minority of men in relationships with women” and who suffer from ED might actually...

Physiological study conducted by Cornell University suggests that human sexuality is fluid A new study claims ‘fully straight’ people don’t exist. Sexual orientation is not binary, with human attraction being much more complex than two simple ‘gay’ or ‘straight’ options. But a physiological study suggests men and women are neither gay, straight or bi and that human sexuality is fluid. The new study conducted by Cornell University presents new evidence that contradicts traditional beliefs regarding heteronormative sexual orientation. Study suggests that human sexuality is...

And it's straight guys' fault. New research from the University of Texas suggests that straight women are more comfortable opening up to gay guys than heterosexual men. A report published in Psychological Science, surveyed more than 150 heterosexual women about their comfort levels around men, and combined the results with videotaped encounters between 66 pairs of straight women and gay men. Researchers found that the women conversed more easily and openly after learning the men they’d been paired with were gay. Their...