Hiv Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Shane Petzer, best known as one of the founders of sex worker advocacy group Sweat, has passed away in Barrydale in the Western Cape.

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration announced on Tuesday $2.21 billion in new funding under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program for cities, counties, states and local community-based organizations providing care for low-income people with HIV/AIDS.

Get the latest entertainment news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly Showbiz newsletter

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may approve the first long-acting therapy for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) within the next few months.On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical company ViiV Healthcare announced that the FDA has accepted and granted priority review for a new drug application (NDA) for cabotegravir, an injectable form of PrEP administered every two months. The FDA’s target approval date is Jan.

Video: Elton John, David Furnish and Their Sons Twin in Versace for Rare Family Photo (E! News)Billboard Latin Music Awards 2021 Winners: The Complete ListFederal Arrest Warrant Issued for Brian Laundrie Amid Gabby Petito InvestigationBeyoncé Says She Now Understands How “Fragile Life Truly Is” in Personal LetterThe Sweet Way Blake Lively's New Business Honors Her Daughter and Late FatherThe Sweet Way Blake Lively's New Business Honors Her Daughter and Late FatherJason Kennedy and Lauren Scruggs

For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.  © Star Observer 2021 | For the latest in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, be sure to visit

Lil Nas X has been applauded for promoting LGBTQ equality and highlighting HIV stigma in his performance at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday.

Lil Nas X had an important message featured in his VMAs performance this year.

Talk about a dynamic duo! Dua Lipa, 26, and Elton John, 74, were all smiles as they posed together on a “perfect night.” The Grammy winners wrapped their arms around each other in a September 11 Instagram post, which showed Dua rocking a tiny black crop top underneath a long-sleeved, sheer top. She also donned a pair of high waisted black pants and pointy toe heels, as she slicked her raven tresses back into a high ponytail.

The weekly email brings you all the latest news from the LGBTQ+ community plus exclusive interviews direct to your inbox

DaBaby has apologised to leading HIV advocates in a private meeting over homophobic remarks he made during his Rolling Loud Miami set in July.Following the incident, representatives from various HIV organisations in the US signed and sent an open letter to the rapper last month, urging DaBaby to take a private meeting with them, which ultimately took place virtually on August 25.

DaBaby is taking steps to learn.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDaBaby has met with a group of nine U.S. HIV organizations “to discuss HIV facts and share personal stories of living and thriving with HIV,” the organizations announced via a press release on Tuesday.

Channel 4 show It's A Sin, has made him think harder about his fortune when it comes to his health. He appreciated it so much that he wants to get the cast round his house when he returns to the UK, to thank them for a wonderful drama and highlighting the issue, including screen-writer Russel T Davies.

It’s A Sin.The Channel 4 drama aired earlier this year to high praise for its honest portrayal of AIDS amongst young British men in the 1980s.In the show, the core ensemble greeted each other with the personalised phrase “la”, which has since been repurposed by fans.The phrase was used by designer Philip Normal, who is living with HIV, for the bespoke t-shirt, which was launched to raise money for HIV and sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.Sales of the shirt have been boosted by

On Labor Day weekend, thousands of Black LGBTQ people travel to Atlanta to participate in Black Gay Pride in what has essentially become a Black LGBTQ national holiday. For many of us, this singular event serves as a kind of homecoming celebration full of possibility, solidarity, intimacy, and joy.

Prince Harry is enjoying life as a father of two. The 36-year-old royal welcomed his second child, Lilibet, in early June and has now been spotted out and about for the first time since then.

Prince Harry is back on the polo field. The Duke of Sussex made an appearance on Thursday in Aspen, Colorado for the Sentebale charity polo match and confirmed he would be making a large donation to the organization he co-founded in 2006.  Harry announced he would be donating $1.5 million of his memoir proceeds to the charity.

Mj Rodriguez is the latest cast member of FX’s groundbreaking series Pose to make Emmy history, earning the very first lead acting nomination for a trans woman. In conversation with Ryan Fleming she reflects on an achievement she never thought possible, and what she hopes it will mean.

th, will conclude in spring of 2023.“The mRNA platform makes it easy to develop vaccines against variants because it just requires an update to the coding sequences in the mRNA that code for the variant,” Rajesh Gandhi, an infectious disease expert who chairs the HIV Medicine Association, told Verywell Health.“Based on its success in protecting against COVID-19, I am hopeful that mRNA technology will revolutionize our ability to develop vaccines against other pathogens, like HIV and

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Pose” co-creator, showrunner and director Steven Canals knew from the beginning that his 1980s- and ’90s-set ballroom culture cable drama was going to rest firmly on the shoulders of Blanca Rodriguez (played by Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez), a young trans woman and house mother diagnosed with HIV early on in the series’ run.

The FX series Pose came to a conclusion this year after three seasons and earned nine Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series. Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, Pose takes a look at the underground drag ball culture in the African-American and Latino LGBTQ community during the late 1980s and early ’90s.

In the recent past, many celebrities have been coming forward to discuss chronic illness.

American rapper DaBaby has disappeared from the Parklife line-up in wake of making 'hurtful and triggering' comments aimed towards the LGBTQ+ community during a festival appearance.

DaBaby’s apology to the LGBTQ+ community for his comments about HIV and AIDS appears to have been deleted from his Instagram page.The rapper denied that he was being homophobic after he came under fire for comments that he made during his Rolling Loud Miami set last month.“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light up,” he was heard saying in footage from the set that was shared

Rapper DaBaby has been dropped from this year’s Music Midtown lineup after receiving backlash for homophobic remarks.

DaBaby requesting a private meeting to address his controversial comments.Organisations such as GLAAD, Black AIDS Institute, Prevention Access Campaign, and more, as well as leading academics, delivered the address after the rapper – real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk – issued an apology for his homophobic rant at Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival last month.During his performance, the rapper encouraged the crowd to put their mobile phone flashlights in the air if they “didn’t show up today with

Miley Cyrus offered to educate DaBaby on the LGBTQIA+ community as he faces cancellation over controversial remarks he made during a recent live show.  While on stage at a Miami-area concert, the Grammy-nominated rapper used crude language and asked attendees who weren’t gay men or people not affected by HIV or AIDS to raise their cellphone flashlights.

A number of organizations and Hollywood celebrities are reaching out to DaBaby to help him “address the miseducation” about HIV/AIDS after his controversial statements.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEleven national LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations on Wednesday released an open letter to rapper DaBaby in the wake of his recent homophobic statements and awkward attempts at apologies, requesting a private meeting to discuss the facts about HIV and how it is a preventable and treatable condition, and discuss a long-term opportunity for him to pass on the education to his large fanbase.The organizations are: Arianna’s Center, Black AIDS Institute, GLAAD, The Normal

Forty years after the first case of HIV was reported in the United States in 1981, a “cure” has remained elusive so far. Now, HIV/AIDS researchers across the world are keenly awaiting the results of two new trials that are scheduled to start in Melbourne.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDaBaby has been dropped from two more music festivals, despite issuing a second apology on Monday for homophobic comments he made at and after his performance at the Rolling Loud Miami festival on the weekend of July 23.Reps for the iHeartRadio Music Festival and Austin City Limits confirmed that he will no longer be performing at their events.“DaBaby will no longer be performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival Daytime Stage” and “DaBaby will no longer be

DaBaby is speaking out again with an apology, just hours after the news broke that he’d been dropped from the 2021 Governors Ball lineup.

Rapper DaBaby, 29, apologized for the homophobic comments during a performance at the Rolling Loud music festival. The musician, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, shared his statement to Instagram on Monday August 2. He said that he regretted what he’d said and thanked fans and friends who had reached out to help educate him on why his comments were hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community.

DaBaby is apologizing for a homophobic rant during an appearance at the Rolling Loud festival in Miami.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter his headlining sets at Lollapalooza and the Governors Ball Festival were canceled within 24 hours of each other, DaBaby has issued another, more articulated apology to the LGBTQ community.While it starts off defensively, his statement posted to Instagram does include a more thorough apology than the half-baked ones he offered last week in the wake of his homophobic comments about AIDS and the gay community at the Rolling Loud festival and afterward.“Social