The Reading List for Oct 14, 2014

For those of you who missed Monday and are looking to know what you should be reading in the news right now, here’s the latest edition of the Reading List.

– Looks like it’s not just the queer and health media that are talking about Truvada. Newsweek takes a look at the drug and the controversies surrounding it.

Xtra’s Justin Ling covers the recent stalling of Bill C-279, dubbed the trans rights bill by some.

– Over at The Huffington Post, a look into a report that states that gay men in the US are “shockingly ignorant” about HIV/AIDS.

– This isn’t the same View: Rosie O’Donnell interviews the Twitter user who helped identify the alleged perpetrators of an assault on two gay men in Philadelphia.

– And the pope has come out and said that same-sex partnerships have value. Ensue the backlash from conservative Catholics.

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