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1.4 billion older people expected by 2030  - According to research from Age UK , currently many older people are able to stay fit, active and cognitively alert but some are at risk of becoming ...

Growing up in a single parent family is a form of ' poverty ', say experts  - CHILDREN growing up in a single-parent family should be labelled as living in a form of “ poverty ”, a think-tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith ...

Why are we letting down the poorest children in our region? MPs to debate why we are doing so ...  - after a recent Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission report found that Norwich was the second worst place in the country to escape poverty .

How to help your children feel less stressed  - According to Young Minds, the UK's leading charity for the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children , around one in 10 children in the UK  ...

New research to explore sexual health issues of people with mental illness  - The goal is to establish the feasibility and acceptability of a package that will address specific needs of UK people with serious mental health issues.

Which States Still Have Anti- Gay Sex Laws? - The states of Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah all have anti- gay  ...

Gay man confronts Marco Rubio: “Why do you want to put me back in the closet?”  - While campaigning at the Puritan Backroom diner in Manchester, New Hampshire, Marco was asked by a married gay man: “Why do you want to put ...

Portrayal of 'fashionable and witty' gay men on screen could harm self-esteem, researchers claim -  The “fashionable and witty” portrayal of gay men in popular television programmes and films undermines their confidence in real life, researchers ...

Revolutionary new health system requires doctors to get LGBT 'competency' training  - A new system has been approved in the District of Columbia that will require healthcare professionals to get training in LGBT “competency”.

Meet the First Trans Man on the Cover of Men's Health in Europe  - Melzer will be the first transgender man to appear on the cover of a men's fitness magazine in Europe, according to U.K. LGBT site Pink News. Melzer ...

Harvey Milk's nephew reveals how his uncle helped him come to terms with his sexuality  - His uncle's support inspired Stuart, an LGBT Human Rights Activist, to call for LGBT people to come out and fight for acceptance, not just 'tolerance', ...

New York Governor announces measures to ban LGBT conversion therapy  - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced steps that will lead to the banning of LGBT conversion therapies. On Saturday, he revealed new ...

Electrocution, rape and submersion: 'gay cures' and the fight to end them  - From China to Latin America clinics claim to offer 'cures' for homosexuality to vulnerable people. How are activists planning to stop them? Yang Teng ...

Hillary Clinton: LGBTI equality is 'top of my priority list'   - The former secretary of state was asked by a student at a New Hampshire college Sunday (7 February) how she would change things for LGBTI  ...

Supporters of same sex marriage celebrate in Dublin after the successful referendum in Ireland ...  - He said there were “brilliant advocates for LGBTI equality in Australia right across every political party, right across the non-political world”.

Donald Trump on LGBT rights: “I'm going to bring people together”  - Donald Trump has backtracked on recent comments over LGBT equality and said that his potential presidency would “bring people together.”.

“I will kill myself”: the gay Syrian refugee couple who could be deported from the UK -  Instead the UK Home Office is threatening the couple with deportation. .... Just three LGBT refugees have been successful in their applications to ...

We need LGBT -specific domestic violence charities more than ever - but the only one in the UK is ...  - It has been revealed that the UK's only national LGBT domestic violence charity, Broken Rainbow, is facing closure due to lack of funding. The charity ...

LGBTIs and Christian hate: Welby and the Anglican Church need to pick a side  - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recently said he was sorry for the pain caused to so many LGBTI people by the church, after a gathering of ...

How to become an LGBTI supermodel like Cara Delevingne (at London's Madame Tussauds, that is)  - Supermodel's waxwork will be displayed alongside Caitlyn Jenner's daughter Kendall – plus US Vogue editor Anna Wintour! How to become an ...

Where are we now? The global outlook for LGBTI rights  - There have also been new laws enacted in some countries, most excessively in Nigeria, which has outlawed LGBTI organisations, fundraising and ...

A Principal Is Getting Praised After Standing Up For Trans Kids  - Senator Janet Rice has written to congratulate the principal of a school for standing up for LGBTI students after a mum withdrew her kids in protest ...