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Giving healthy gay men HIV drugs 'could help reverse epidemic'  -  Giving daily HIV drugs to healthy gay men has huge potential to help reverse ... Last year, a UK test on 500 men assessed the impact of an alternative ...

14 Things Gay Men Did That Prove They Are Years Ahead Of Their Time  - There was a time in the late 90s / early noughties when gay bars were lit almost exclusively (not really) by electric blue lighting. It was like a gay calling ...

Free shoe grips for elderly residents  - A small town in southern Finland is trying to counter the risk of elderly people slipping on icy streets by giving away hundreds of pairs of shoe grips for ...

Lottery funded project aims to reduce loneliness in older people living in London  - The Standing Together project will provide support to 25 groups of older people living in sheltered housing accommodation across London.

Finally, a positive step for tackling mental health in schools  - On Thursday, Mr Benjamin launched ThinkWell, a national campaign to bring mental health education into every classroom in the UK . He and his ...

Mental health can be a feminist issue too  - While mental illness, like physical illness, is caused by a variety of complex, ... early twentieth-century Britain , medical professionals advised that women should not ... My point is that our mental health is not entirely separate from the ...

Nicola Roberts calls for better mental health education in schools  - Nicola Roberts calls for better mental health education in schools ... Aloud star Nicola Roberts joined the BBC's This Week to talk about mental health .

Quarter of UK adults with mental illness  - New data from the Health Survey for England found 26 per cent of more than 5000 adults surveyed said they had been diagnosed with a mental  ...

the Oscars 2016 nominations are a diversity disaster  - An almost total lack of black, female and LGBT faces in this year's main categories. Despite films like Carol, Creed and Straight Outta Compton ...

Shock as Anglican Communion punishes US church for acceptance of gays  - The Anglican Communion has caused shock waves in LGBT christians as it overwhelmingly voted to sanction a liberal US church which supports ...

How do I ... become a foster carer?  - Barnardo's has put out a plea for more foster carers to look after the record number of children in care across the UK . The number has reached its ...

UK lawmakers say authorities 'failing' transgender people  -  UK lawmakers say authorities 'failing' transgender people ... bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) issues at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, ...

School's Out  - This is something that a lot of young LGBTI people are dealing with, and greater attention needs to be paid to services in schools.” Midsumma is on ...

Play shines a light on the plights of LGBTI asylum seekers  - WHEN John Kachoyan began working on a play looking at the plights of LGBTI refugees from the Middle East, he realised he hadn't known just how ...

Homophobia: South African girl beaten, raped, murdered for being a lesbian  - Her gruesome murder has also left her family, the police and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex ( LGBTI ), community reeling in ...

Anglicans discipline Episcopalians over same-sex marriage  - Some of the leaders of conservative anti- LGBTI Anglican churches in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Rwanda and Congo had threatened to ...

Dear Coleen: After 19 years together, my partner said she was gay and left me  - After nearly 19 years together, my now ex-partner decided to end our relationship two weeks before Christmas. She texted me out of the blue to say ...

Pence backing religious freedom in LGBT rights debate  - Pence had avoided taking a position on the issue for months, though bills are pending in the Legislature that would extend varying degrees of LGBT  ...

Britain's Parliament might be the most LGBT in the world  -  Britain's Parliament might be the most LGBT in the world. New Year New Start! I have today posted an important message on my website ...

Government report into transphobia is a genuine milestone for addressing transgender rights -  Far more important is the fact that it has happened at all: that Parliament has finally, some 15 years after political campaigning on trans issues, got ...

MSPs reject bid to make LGBT teaching statutory  - The Scottish Parliament has rejected a bid to make the teaching of LGBT topics a statutory requirement in all schools. In August last year, homosexual ...

London events paying tribute to David Bowie  - Dance night organisers Super Lovers are dedicating this month's event to the music legend following his passing. They'll be playing tunes such as Oh ...

Russia wants to ban public displays of affection among gay men  - MPs Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev have presented a bill calling for people who come out as LGBTI to serve up to 15 days behind bars.