The Top Gay LGBT News Of The Week - January 16, 2015

The top gay or LGBT news links for the week ending January 16, 2015:

There have been great strides in the search for a vaccine and cure for HIV/AIDS!

A comprehensive collection of articles describing the broad scope and current status of this global effort is published in a special issue of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.

There’s a new HIV/AIDS vaccine that comes in a capsule. The vaccine is “made using a common cold virus called an adenovirus, genetically engineered with a tiny piece of the AIDS virus.”

Alternet and the Southern Poverty Law Center published an updated “10 Vile Homophobic Myths Debunked.”

Think Progress reports that “Judge’s Anti-Gay Opinion Unintentionally Reveals Just How Weak The Case Against Marriage Equality Is.”

I wrote a story for Medium about the Texas Solicitor General and the gay marriage hearing at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana. The story is entitled “Bigotry on the Bayou: Texas Solicitor General perjured himself with “no animus” for gays.”.

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