This latest monkeypox vaccine conspiracy theory might be the dumbest thing we’ve ever heard

Since early May, more than 23,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide. This is the largest ever global outbreak of the disease.

Doctors at New York’s Montefiore Health System have successfully performed the world’s first heart transplant where both the donor and the recipient were HIV positive. The patient who suffered from advanced heart failure received the life-saving treatment, along with a kidney transplant, in early Spring, and spent five weeks recovering in the Bronx-based hospital. The […]

Doctors at New York’s Montefiore Health System have successfully performed the world’s first heart transplant where both the donor and the recipient were HIV-positive. The patient who suffered from advanced heart failure received the life-saving treatment, along with a kidney transplant, in early Spring, and spent five weeks recovering in the Bronx-based hospital. The woman […]

The viral disease monkeypox is spreading around the world. So far, there are more than 6,300 known cases in the U.S., almost entirely among gay and bisexual men. New York, California, Illinois and some cities have declared states of emergency, following the World Health Organization’s own declaration of a global emergency.

The first known deaths caused by the current Monkeypox outbreak have been confirmed. This comes as the virus continues to spread at a rapid rate globally, with gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men being disproportionately affected. The first confirmed death outside of Africa since the ongoing outbreak began in May occurred […]

Gemma Collins was spotted looking very happy while carrying her sleeping stepson earlier this week.The former The Only Way Is Essex and Celebrity Big Brother star, 41, is currently engaged to her fiancé Rami Hawash, who has son Tristan from a previous relationship.The couple first began dating 2011 and have been off-and-on again. However, they reconciled last year in 2021. And arriving at Novikov restaurant in Mayfair for Tristan's birthday, Gemma looked over the moon to be celebrating her stepson's big day and was spotted carrying him into the restaurant.

Love Island has received more than 5,000 Ofcom complaints during this year's series.Several allegations were made to the broadcasting regulator by viewers who were concerned with "misogynistic behaviour" demonstrated by some of the boys, claims of "bullying," and Laura Whitmore's "s***-shaming" comments about Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu.The most complaints came after Movie Night which saw Luca Bish explode at partner Gemma Owen after clips were played of her and Billy Brown "flirting".More than 1,500 complaints followed the Snog, Marry, Pie, challenge where viewers expressed concern over the boys' treatment of Tasha Ghouri.As season eight has come to an end, Daily Star has rounded up the moments that have sparked the most controversy across the series.Movie Night was hit with more than 2,500 complaints after viewers believed "misogynistic and controlling" behaviour was being demonstrated by some of the boys.The episodes, which aired on July 15 and concluded on July 17, featured the girls and boys sitting down to watch clips of what their partners got up to while they were in Casa Amor.The challenge has become a catalyst in causing tension between the couples and this year was no different.The highest amount of complaints stemmed from Luca, 23, when he got into a heated exchange with Gemma, 19, after he was shown a clip of the brunette bombshell allegedly flirting with Billy, 23.In the mind-blowing scenes, Luca slammed Gemma, saying: "You were f***ing flirting! And I was made out to look like an idiot for it."He continued ranting to the boys: "Trust me when I say, if she wants to f***ing play games with me, I'll play.

This article was republished with permission from My Fabulous Disease, a blog by HIV advocate Mark S. King.

the virus spreads nationwide.Monday's declarations come as more than 5,800 probable or confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in the US. California had more than 800 cases Tuesday, while Illinois had more than 500, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.While the World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, the Biden administration has not issued a nationwide public health emergency declaration.California is the third and largest state to issue a statewide declaration related to the disease.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and the Maryland Department of Health on Tuesday pressed the federal government for more monkeypox vaccine doses to states.

Dallas County, with the highest number of monkeypox cases in the state, haas made the monkeypox vaccine more available. Dr. Philip Huang, Dallas County health and human services director announced the county has received 5,000 doses of the vaccine from the federal government.

World’s first heart transplant between HIV-Positive donor and recipient was successfully performed at Montefiore Health System in New York City. 

A review of academic literature published in the Journal of Internet Medical Research last year determined, when it comes to information about health topics, social media is not the place to turn. (Unless you follow me, of course!) One study found 87 percent of health-related posts contain misinformation. More than 40 percent of posts about vaccines contain incorrect information.   

The White House announced Tuesday that President Biden has named FEMA’s Robert Fenton as the White House National Monkeypox Response Coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.

In the fight against transphobia, boxer Pharrell Shaymar sure packs a punch.Known as the “trans technician”, his mastery of fighting components like footwork and jabbing make him a formidable opponent in the ring–and he looks damn good doing it.The Aussie boxer isn’t fighting competitively at the moment, instead opting to fight for representation and opportunity in the ring for other trans folks.Related: Spain’s first trans pro footballer talks the importance of taking the first step“I didn’t need to fight, because I had already won all my battles outside the ring,” Shaymar tells Outsports.“I had finally stopped fighting to fit in, fighting to prove myself, fighting for everyone’s approval, fighting to be accepted.

A Spanish doctor was riding the metro in Madrid when he noticed a troubling scene — a fellow passenger was “completely riddled” with monkeypox lesions, “from head to toe, including his hands.” What happened next was equally troubling.Dr. Arturo M Henriques posted the story in a series of tweets, which were translated and have since gone viral.“I see the situation and I also see the people around me as if nothing will happen,” he wrote.The doctor decided to “become a Karen” (his words, not ours) and approached the man, who said his own doctor advised him he didn’t need to isolate, and to simply wear a mask.Monkeypox, Spain: Dr tells of spotting this monkeypox infected on the underground train and telling them to isolate immediately: they responded saying they don't have to as their Dr told them that, and that monkeypox is gay only pic.twitter.com/j7kICZi7jF— Chris Turnbull (@EnemyInAState) July 31, 2022“I tell him that the injuries all over his body are what are most contagious,” Henriques said.

This singer’s high-flying gospel vocals enthralled the public, but it wasn’t until his passing decades later that fans would learn what he’d long kept private.Houston natives Willmer Broadnax and his brother William sang together in different gospel groups throughout the ’30s and ’40s. The pair came to be known as “Little Axe” and “Big Axe” for their respective sizes.What Willmer lacked in stature, he more than exceeded on stage; according to music critic Ray Foster, “his voice is sweet, but almost vicious, dripping with emotion.”After the brothers decided to split ways creatively, Willmer kept his “Little Axe” persona in performing.

formally named Robert Fenton as the White House's national monkeypox response coordinator.Fenton, a regional Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator who oversees Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, will coordinate the federal government's response to the outbreak, while Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, will serve as the deputy coordinator."Fenton and Daskalakis will lead the Administration's strategy and operations to combat the current monkeypox outbreak, including equitably increasing the availability of tests, vaccinations and treatments," the White House said in a statement announcing the team.The first US monkeypox case in this outbreak was confirmed May 17, and the virus has spread rapidly to reach more than 5,800 probable or confirmed cases, nearly all of them in men who have sex with men.

Move over, Sesame Street — because a mother in New Jersey is claiming that one of the mascots at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in the Garden State is racially discriminating, too!

Twitter thread, tweets from Dr. Arturo M Henriques have been reposted and gone viral.The doctor had been riding the metro in Madrid when a man came on "completely riddled" with monkeypox lesions, including on his hands."I see the situation and I also see the people around me as if nothing will happen," the doctor said on Twitter.Monkeypox, Spain: Dr tells of spotting this monkeypox infected on the underground train and telling them to isolate immediately: they responded saying they don't have to as their Dr told them that, and that monkeypox is gay only pic.twitter.com/j7kICZi7jFAs of August 1, there have been 23,276 confirmed cases of monkeypox across the globe.

A Houston, US-based Gay porn star is winning praise for going public about his battle with monkeypox infection on social media. Silver Steele shared his monkeypox diagnosis with his around 39,000 fans on , providing regular updates about his symptoms, retweeting health alerts and asking people to protect themselves and get vaccinated. Many fans thanked him for encouraging them to get the jab. Last week, the World Health Organisation declared that the monkeypox outbreak was a “public health emergency of international concern”.

New York City has performed the first heart transplant in which the donor and recipient were both HIV-positive.Montefiore Health System in the Bronx performed the operation in the early spring of this year, the hospital announced in a news release last week. The recipient was a woman in her 60s who suffered from advanced heart failure.

According to the most recent Gallup polling, a record high 71% of the country fully supports same-sex marriage. It’s a remarkable jump from the 55% in 2014, but it still means 29% of Americans still view LGBTQ people as second class citizens.And wouldn’t you know it, they have some pretty dumb ideas about the whole thing.A particularly cringey pamphlet has been making the rounds comparing same-sex marriage to, of all things, faulty seatbelts.It was shared by Twitter user @mattxiv, who gave it the eloquent caption it deserved: “real marriage is when seatbelt”.

Doctor Who fans—excuse us, Whovians—know to expect the unexpected when it comes to the adventures of their beloved Time Lord. The long-running BBC series regularly fiddles with its own formula, and will be doing so in a big way in 2023 when it introduces Sex Education‘s Ncuti Gatwa as its new Doctor.As per usual, not much is known about this upcoming “regeneration,” except that Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk, It’s A Sin) will be returning as the showrunner for the first time in over a decade, with Heartstopper breakout Yasmin Finney as the Doctor’s companion, and Neil Patrick Harris in a mysterious villain role.But it’s the latter who has given us perhaps our most intriguing hint at what’s to come: In addition to being played by a Black actor for the first time, this time around, the Doctor will be—spoilers!—gay.  A post shared by Ncuti Gatwa (@ncutigatwa)While guesting on the Just For Variety podcast in support of Uncoupled, Harris spilled some tea about Gatwa’s Doctor that had yet to be confirmed:“I got to meet and interact with him a bit and he’s glorious,” Harris said of Gatwa.

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Biddenden, it's not immediately clear just how beautiful it is. A small but perfectly formed village in the heart of the Kent countryside, it really is one of those places you could quite easily blink and miss if you're not paying attention. Nestled in the picturesque Ashford countryside, it has all the elements of the traditional English village with its stretch of pretty Flemish cottages lining the high street, a village green, church, pub, café and a small selection of restaurants.

LGBTQ communities.The Up Your Alley Fair often referred to simply as "Dore Alley Fair," is an annual festival held on the last Sunday of July in San Francisco. First held in 1985, it is today one of the most prominent BDSM fetish and leather subculture festivals in the world.

Sometimes the smallest design changes can make a big difference when it comes to inclusion. 

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welcomed a daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, via surrogate in 2018. In 2021, Time published an excerpt from Gabrielle's book, You Got Anything Stronger?, in which the actor detailed her fertility struggles and path to have Kaavia. Gabrielle revisited the day her daughter was born, then stated she still wonders how it may have been different to have carried Kaavia. "So much time has passed.

GEMMA Collins delighted her fans as she stripped off to a white swimsuit and offered them some words of wisdom. The 41-year-old looked tanned and happy in the snap taken as she posed on the beach during a trip to Marbella.

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Tiger King and the fail-tastic baking abominations on Nailed It!, the start of the COVID pandemic left reality TV viewers with many guilty pleasures to choose from. So many, in fact, that you may have missed the one show from that time that dared to go where no reality TV show had gone before, by including a masturbation competition in its very first episode.Labor of Love made us wonder if the straights were okay all over again by featuring Kristy Katzmann, a 41-year-old bachelorette who got to choose which of 15 men would win her heart and the honor of impregnating her.Accompanied by Sex and the City‘s Kristin Davis, Katzmann greeted the men in the show’s May 2020 premiere episode.

Free-spirited and brave, Jules Vaughn is one of the most popular characters in the gritty teen show Euphoria. In the first season, we see her trying to navigate her womanhood and problems with intimacy. There are even several blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments in episodes where we see her inject hormones or swipe on gay dating apps.

Miriam Margolyes came out as a lesbian in the 1960s, but is has only just experienced the joy of attending her first Pride. We know and love the 81-year-old Harry Potter star for her witty comments and scandalous stories, but now she’s opening up about her own past and what it was like to come out. The actress shared her story in ABC’s Australia Unmasked, with the British-Australian star taking a dive into the history of LGBTQ+ rights Down Under.

monkeypox, or MPV.With vaccine supplies limited, a Seattle man told a local TV station he and friends traveled to the Canadian province of British Columbia to receive the vaccine and found the process “seamless.”“King County [which includes Seattle] health was being very slow with the uptake of access to dosing and communicating in general,” Seattle gay man Justin Moore told broadcaster KING. “It became apparent to me that I was going to have to seek out other places to get it,” he added.So he and his friends went across the border, and it took about 15 minutes for them to get vaccinated against MPV, whose most recent outbreak has been concentrated in men who have sex with men.

A Texas man who contracted monkeypox received a lot of mixed attention after sharing images of the progression of the infection, which has manifested itself in part on his face. By sharing his MPV experience in public, the gay Houstonian says he hopes to raise awareness about its prevalence while also removing the stigma and bringing attention to its isolation.Following the Fourth of July holiday, Wesley Wallace traveled to Austin for Hippie Hollow Otter Fest, a weekend event attended by queer men on Lake Travis, to have a leisurely time on the water.“It’s a lake, boat, shoreline kind of thing,” the 42-year-old tech professional tells The Advocate.When he returned from the weekend of drinking, socializing, and soaking up some rays, he noticed some irritation on his face, which he attributed to shaving and wearing sunscreen while baking in the sun.

Will & Grace star dropped names, showbiz gossip, and hilarious tales at every turn.Jordan partnered with GetYourGuide, an online booking platform for unforgettable travel experiences, which allows you to find a guide around the world and book really unique —even tailored specifically for you — tours.“What a trip!” Jordan told the press after leading the tour. “It was so fun to take a big bite out of the Big Apple from Times Square to Strawberry Fields, Carnegie Hall and the Theater District, sprinkled with some cheeky gossip and plenty of inappropriate humor! Touring the city that never sleeps took a very long New York minute — especially during rush hour when NOTHING moves.”Jordan added “I’m glad I wasn’t driving, because there are only three kinds of drivers here, maniacs and those who aren’t good at math.

wrote to the World Health Organization to say that “Monkeypox” was stigmatizing.Health commissioner Ashwin Vasan wrote of the “painful and racist history within which terminology like (monkeypox) is rooted for communities of color.“Continuing to use the term ‘monkeypox’ to describe the current outbreak may reignite these traumatic feelings of racism and stigma — particularly for Black people and other people of color, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and it is possible that they may avoid engaging in vital health care services because of it.”Carlson was dismissive of the idea, saying, “So, monkeypox is about the coolest name ever for a disease.“But they are changing the name because racism or something.”Carlson said he’d run a Twitter poll offering alternative suggestions. The winning entry?Schlong Covid.The results are in.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has gay sex on the brain.But not in that (deep breath) Ted Cruz sort of way — the Georgia rep. and walking stay in school billboard recently gave her hot take on monkeypox, going a step further than the typical, conservative blame-the-gays stigma and singling out “gay sex orgies” as the sole spreading events.In a now-viral clip from her webcast, MTG: Live, Greene audaciously hawks her new monkeypox T-shirt before saying, “Monkeypox is all the rage, it is the hottest thing going in Washington, D.C.

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monkeypox: “schlong covid.”The virus, also known as MPV, is now considered a global health emergency by the U.N’s World Health Organization. MPV is known to cause fever, muscle aches, and rashes, among other symptoms.Carlson made the announcement on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight, Mediaite reports.

BBC Northern Ireland has defended an episode of radio programme The Nolan Show that contained a discussion on monkeypox that has been deemed “homophobic”. LGBTQ+ charity The Rainbow Project commented on the segment by saying: “blatant emphasis on gay or bi male sexual acts, questions and comments focused on sexual activity were homophobic”. On Wednesday, […]

Marjorie Taylor Greene saying monkeypox is spread through "gay sex orgies" has gone viral on social media.The clip, posted on commentator Ron Filipkowski's Twitter page, has so far been viewed more than 90,000 times.In the brief clip from Greene's podcast show, Greene promotes her new monkeypox T-shirt before speaking about how the disease, which is currently more notably impacting the gay community, spreads.Marge Greene tonight on Monkeypox: “You’re not supposed to talk about how it really gets spread around … Yes, it is gay sex orgies.” pic.twitter.com/aZk8unv9GF"Monkeypox is all the rage, it is the hottest thing going in Washington, D.C. right now," Greene said."You are not supposed to talk about how it really gets spread around but we are going to just go ahead and let you know."Yes, it is gay sex orgies, sorry everybody, that is the truth, it just had to be said.

The first-ever winners’ season of RuPaul’s Drag Race came to an unforgettable close this week with six epic lip-sync smackdowns. 

State Rep. Jessica González announced today (Thursday, July 28) her office is partnering with Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Omar Narvaez, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Dr. Philip Huang of Dallas County Health & Human Services, and Parkland Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Roberto De La Cruz to host a virtual panel on understanding monkeypox at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, Aug. 3.

Los Espookys wrapped up its acclaimed first season in summer 2019. Thankfully, HBO’s idiosyncratic horror-comedy is finally coming back, and it doesn’t appear to have changed at all.We take that back—it’s actually “more fantastic, more mysterious, and more ‘Espookier’ than before,” according to the first teaser for season two.

The Biden administration’s top health official got defensive on Thursday in response to questions about its response to monkeypox, suggesting localities and “communities at risk” weren’t doing enough on prevention efforts and asserting the federal government has “done our homework” in addressing the outbreak.