Demonstrators gathered Thursday on the steps of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building for a “die-in” over proposed funding cuts at the agency that could devastate programs addressing LGBTQ health disparities.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to radically reshape the department and its approach to health care, including through funding cuts to programs geared toward treating and preventing HIV, a virus that in the U.S. disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men. Kennedy previously questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS, a discovery that won a Nobel Prize in 2008.

On Thursday, more than 100 participants sank slowly to the ground while Matthew Rose, senior public policy advocate for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),........

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