Valérie André, Daring French Army Copter Pilot, Dies at 102
She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...
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Fucking Political: Lessons From the Early AIDS Activists Who Took Matters Into Their Own Hands
Originally published in the Mercury's sister publication The Stranger, as part of its Love & Sex Issue.] On July 3, 1981, the ...
Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84
He marshaled epidemiological research to press for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange ...
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The French Philosophers Who Gave Us Radical Feminism and Transgenderism
COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two ...
The Stranger2d
Fucking Political
Millions would die from what doctors first called GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, a name that linked gayness with ...
Surgeon accused of sexually abusing 299 victims over 25 years in France’s largest child abuse case
A former surgeon who allegedly raped and abused hundreds of young patients, many of whom were under anaesthetic, will be the ...
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How an 1800s French doctor's experiments with electrocuted faces revealed science of real smiles
Back in ye olden tymes of the 1800s, a French physician named Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne was shocking people's faces with ...
Valérie André, first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat, dies at 102
Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...