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How did these guys see in Spring?  - This weekend saw the first day of Spring appear, and luckily for us these guys aren't waiting for Summer to take their clothes off. To celebrate the birth ...

Virulent anti- gay remarks test Indonesia's moderate image  - Writings on the banner read "Indonesia is on LGBT emergency" and " Gay people are a contagion, save the young generation from LGBT people".

Sir Ian McKellen: “Society treated us unfairly and cruelly” - During the interview for the Guardian, Ian recalled how he was “deeply closeted” as a young actor, partly due to homosexuality being illegal at the time ...

Steve Grand: 'People love to hate young, good-looking, white gay men'  - Steve Grand: 'People love to hate young, good-looking, white gay men'. The All-American boy singer goes on to describe his manhood in a revealing ...

How Tablets and Tech Are Revolutionizing Education in Myanmar  - About an hour outside of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, local children attend school in a one-story building with green walls and open-air hallways. On the dirt road leading up to the high school near Htone Gyi village in Bago district, dwellings range from huts on stilts to small stone-walled houses. Water buffalo and chickens roam in yards. When class is in session, the voices of students fill the air of the school’s small campus,

Michael Rosen on academy schools: 'Local democracy bites the dust'  - This move on academies is about centralising education as never before. ... Foreigner enables British capitalism to compete better with the Chinese.

The world's top universities by subject  - Universities in the UK are leading the way in maths, English, history and art, according to annual ...

Labour call for sex education classes for the 'smartphone generation' amid huge increase in  -  Labour has blasted the Tories for failing to protect the 'smartphone generation' after a reported 3,000 per cent increase in sexting among under-16s in ...

The impact of mental illness on your career  - Research by healthcare provider SimplyHealth revealed that 56% of the UK workforce believes talking to senior management about a mental health  ...

Raise our taxes to combat poverty , dozens of New York millionaires tell lawmakers  - A group of more than 40 New York millionaires have appealed to the state to raise taxes for the rich to combat poverty and rebuild crumbling ...

UK super-rich seize 26 percent of all new wealth since 2000  - Oxfam's briefing paper, “Ending the Era of Tax Havens—Why the UK ... While net wealth in the UK had increased from £6.4 trillion to £10.1 trillion since the ... An ActionAid (anti- poverty charity) study found that the Australasian mining ...

Poverty reduction risks being diluted by new UK aid plan, MPs warn  - The UK's new overseas aid strategy risks marginalising the historic focus on poverty reduction, the International Development Select Committee has ...

Over 90 per cent of UK Jews give to charity, with Orthodox and over-60s most generous, report finds  - Overall, 60 per cent of British Jews give to both general and Jewish ... But age is the most important indicator of generosity: older people donate a ...

Food fragrance plug-in stimulates appetite and reduces malnutrition in older people  - With more than 800,000 people in the UK living with dementia, and with numbers expected to rise to 1.7 million by 2051, dementia has become a ...

The foods you should be eating to ensure you enjoy good health into old age  - In particular, the report found that older people are not getting enough ... Nor are people in this age group eating enough antioxidants, found mainly in ... the risk of macular degeneration – the leading cause of blindness in the UK .

Study provides insight into how health services for older people are carried out  - The UK has an aging population, with predictions suggesting one in five ... in our services to provide a high standard of social care for older people , ...

Fertility treatment: Lesbian couple says criteria for free care 'impossible to meet'  - A lesbian couple who cannot get free fertility treatment claim they are being ... in Northern Ireland in general is "far below that of the rest of the UK ".

Adam Bandt launches rainbow flag appeal after Safe Schools program 'gutted'  - Thousands of people rallied outside the State Library in Melbourne on 21 March to support the Safe Schools LGBTI anti-bullying program.

LGBT teenagers are three times more likely to attempt suicide  - Some of the findings of The LGBTIreland Report are harrowing, showing higher levels of self-harm and suicidal behaviour among LGBTI teenagers ...

LGBTI rights in Myanmar  -  LGBTI advocacy organisation Outright Action International (formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) reported ...

Rachel Griffiths & Guy Pearce to star in new Hollywood TV series on LGBTI rights  - Pearce will star as LGBTI activist Cleve Jones, who campaigned with Milk in the 1970s, founded the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and led the ...

One in three gay teenagers attempts suicide  - 2,266 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and interviewed 1,008 people about their attitudes to the LGBTI community. It is the ...

New Research Shows LGBTI Teenagers Are More Likely To Self-Harm - New research conducted by GLEN, the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, shows that LGBTI teens are more at risk of self-harm or committing suicide.

A non-uniform day to celebrate LGBTIs in UK schools is coming  - Schools across the country will be holding a non-uniform day, wearing diversity bands and other events in the biggest celebration of LGBTI diversity in ...

Sadly, In Football, Being Gay Is Seen As A Weakness'  - Out British actor Russell Tovey said this week that he hopes a football player will come out gay in the next few years. Tovey plays a closeted football ...

Ukip hopeful wants to bring issues of immigration “centre stage” in mayoral election  - He said: “We have to prioritise brownfield sites, a third of all brownfield sites in the UK are in London and we should incentivise people to build on ...

Half of Europe's doctors think being gay's a disease  - A new report has revealed that a large number of doctors in Europe still think being gay is an illness. In a survey interviewing medical professionals ...

Homophobia or behavior issues? Ogden man banned from LDS Institute of Religion  - Stevens claims the ban is the result of homophobia among students, teachers and administrators. The church says it has to do with “behavior issues.”.

Homophobia claims by same-sex marriage advocates are bullying  - Calling opposition to same-sex marriage homophobic is bullying. The gay community should restore dignity to the plebiscite campaign. If not, a ...

One kiss' against bullying and homophobia  - One kiss', a film by the Italian director Ivan Cotroneo on the theme of bullying and homophobia , with a soundtrack written by Mika, will open in ...

Ukraine LGBT Festival Canceled Following Violent Protests  - Lviv, a major tourist destination in western Ukraine, displayed an unsupportive nature throughout the planning on the event.  Venues that had already been booked started backing out of the festival saying they would only support the event if the Mayor of Lviv gave his approval.

Victorian transgender student credits a support program and Safe Schools in helping with his ...  - We know that LGBTI young people are over represented in suicide and self-harming behaviour and have other mental health issues around bullying ...