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6/20/2019 4:30pm

Channeling the Legacy of AIDS Activism into a Broader Movement for Sexual Justice

CHLP joins Slate.com/Outward’s Stonewall50 special issue exploring the legacies that shape queer life today.
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4/25/2019 2:18pm

Event: Saturday, May 4: CHLP Provides National Perspective on HIV Criminalization for Kansas City-based Mapping Stigma Project

On May 3, CHLP Staff Attorney Jada Hicks participated in an HIV criminalization panel discussion as part of the educational programming for GK Callahan’s exhibit, Mapping Stigma: An Archive of the Contracting An Issue Project, at Leedy-Volkous Art Center.
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4/11/2019 3:52pm

Ending Punishment Fever...The Appeal Examines Laws that Land PLHIV on Sex Offender Registries

CHLP Executive Director Catherine Hanssens spoke with The Appeal about how criminalizing consensual sexual contact is a “pointless, dangerous and stigmatizing response” to a public health issue, and how reform efforts must end the “irrational and unconscionable” use of sex offender registries.
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4/11/2019 1:55pm

CHLP Joins LGBTQ Allies in Calling on Congress to Fund Legal Services Corporation

CHLP joined 40+ LGBTQ and allied organizations in a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee members expressing strong support for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) against a Trump administration move to remove all funding for LSC from the 2020 budget. For the third year in a row, the president's proposed budget eliminates all requested funding for LSC, which serves nearly 2 million low-income people by providing critical legal representation each year.

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4/3/2019 11:47am

HIV Advocates, Medical and Legal Organizations Oppose Proposed Elimination of Notice and Consent Prior to HIV Testing

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