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A civil partnerships bill has now passed both houses of the Irish parliament and will go to the president to be signed into law.

0b94e6bd62a2ed0468c035fa70d1bff0 Irelands upper house passes civil partnerships bill

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Ashling O’Brien, a Masters student in University of Ulster, is carrying out research for a dissertation in Applied Psychology. Her research is focused on social support, in-school victimisation, self-esteem and self-identified sexual orientation. She is carrying out this research via an online survey with participants who are between the age of 18 and 21.

For more infromation on the study please visit the following link:

http://youngmentalhealthni.wordpress.com/

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Are you a man who has sex with other men? Then join 10s of thousands of others across Europe in the largest survey ever carried out in the world.  Started on the 4th of June the European man for man internet sex survey (EMIS) is taking place in 31 countries and in 25 languages.  By the 30th June over 122,000 men had completed the survey (842 from Ireland north and south).  It will end on 31st August

Please click on any of the  url

https://www.demographix.com/surveys/3Y9Q-VHRX/37XLDP3J/?IEghn or

www.emis-survey.eu

Many thanks

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Boy George actor to star in film about gay author

f86962c24bd49a0cc7a85a0bf28bfd2d Keep your eyes out for filming in Belfast!!!

Douglas Booth, the actor who starred in a BBC biopic of Boy George, has been lined up to appear in a film about A Single Man author Christopher Isherwood.

Booth, a 17-year-old Burberry model, played the Culture Club singer in Worried About The Boy and will play the role of a street cleaner who Isherwood has a brief relationship with.

Doctor Who actor Matt Smith, 27, is to play Isherwood in the film, titled Christopher And His Kind.

It began shooting in Belfast this week and tells the story of the authot as a young man who escapes his suffocating mother to move to Berlin in the 1930s.

The film is based on Isherwood’s memoirs of the same name.

Smith became the 11th Doctor Who last year, succeeding David Tennant.

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From BBC Article:

9abd90435e318f50ad23bb04d8c4d933 Smallpox demise linked to spread of HIV infection?

The worldwide eradication of smallpox may, inadvertently, have helped spread HIV infection, scientists believe.

Experts say the vaccine used to wipe out smallpox offered some protection against the Aids virus and, now it is no longer used, HIV has flourished.

The US investigators said trials indicated the smallpox jab interferes with how well HIV multiplies.

But they say in the journal BMC Immunology it is too early to recommend smallpox vaccine for fighting HIV.

Kill no cure

Lead researcher Dr Raymond Weinstein, from Virginia’s George Mason University, said: “There have been several proposed explanations for the rapid spread of HIV in Africa, including wars, the reuse of unsterilised needles and the contamination of early batches of polio vaccine.

“However, all of these have been either disproved or do not sufficiently explain the behaviour of the HIV pandemic.”

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3c59db4d93f11dd684b26ac4d4da1148 Glee creator Ryan Murphy urges magazine snub

Glee creator Ryan Murphy has called for a boycott of Newsweek magazine over an article which suggested gay actors cannot play straight roles.

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An episode of House (season 6 episode 19), aired on Monday in the US, with an interesting theme.

Those of you familiar with the show know the premise, the superdoc Gregory House gets a weird case, and he and his team try to solve the patient’s often confusing medical condition.

Spoilers follow.

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