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State proposals on LGBT rights push business into spotlight  - The decision is among the largest tangible effects of a new North Carolina law overruling LGBT anti-discrimination measures passed by local ...

Elton John, One Direction and Queen members amongst the UK's most charitable celebrities  - Elton John has been revealed as the most charitable British musical ... North Carolina shows to LGBT charities, after the state passed controversial ...

Are gay pupils being bullied at school?  - Accounts of bullying suffered by members of the Lesbian , Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Youth Group prompted the association to look into the ...

Hilarious SNL skit takes aim at baker who won't make gay wedding cake  - SNL released a fake film trailer mocking the bakers, who have become a cause célèbre among the anti- LGBT religious right, by showing things from ...

Universities under pressure to tackle racism  - According to 2011 data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, of 14,000 professors in the UK , just 50 are black. A 2014 survey by education  ...

Poor 'lose out in scramble for primary school places'  - He also expressed concerns about how the needs of vulnerable children will be met under an education system where all schools are academies and ...

Forced academisation? I don't think so  -  And it's on principles of democracy that I was quick to criticise the proposals in the government's new education White Paper. These are the ideas ...

Schools are in danger of being turned into 'exam factories'  - The “Lifelong Learning” report highlights concerns that UK education policy is turning “schools into exam factories, squeezing out creativity and the joy ...

Do we need mandatory retesting for older drivers?  - In a statement it said: “Cycling UK recognises that sentencing elderly and otherwise law-abiding citizens for driving offences, when they have a long ...

Murder of older women is more of a problem than you think  - At the beginning of April, 79-year-old Norma Bell, was found dead at her ... overall lack of research examining crimes against older people in the UK .

British doctors warn of untreatable super gonorrhoea spread  - In November 2015, the British Association for Sexual Health (BASH) and HIV cited data from Public Health England's Gonococcal Resistance to ...

Scotland to introduce Nordic-style 'baby boxes' to tackle infant poverty  - New guidelines for alcohol consumption by the UK published by chief medical officers warn that drinking any level of alcohol has been linked to a ...

Two new therapists to help people with mental health issues  - Outgoing SDLP MLA Gerard Diver asked Health Minister Simon Hamilton “what steps he has taken to increase Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ...

How technology can help solve our mental health crisis  - How technology can help solve our mental health crisis ... developed in partnership with psychologist Niels Eék, which recently launched in the UK .

How Social Media Is Helping Eliminate Stigma Surrounding Mental Health And Bring People ...  - Depression, which affects one in five people at some point in their life, can be an incredibly isolating illness . Aside from the fact that one of the ...

Nearly a quarter of people are afraid to talk about mental health problem at work  - Newly published figures from a YouGov survey of 1,165 Scottish workers found only 30% think their manager cares about their emotional well-being, ...

Is a marriage equality win by plebiscite worth the harm done along the way?  - Most compelling, however, is the foreseeable damage it would cause to those whose rights would be debated – LGBTI Australians and their families.

North Carolina pol wants anti- LGBTI law repealed  - Speaking to Chuck Todd on NBC, McCrory said he would not repeal HB2, despite Todd saying the network estimated that it had already cost the state ...

LGBTI getting the call to enrol to vote  - A FEDERAL election is just around the corner with LGBTI issues including marriage equality and Safe Schools set to dominate the conversation, ...

Africa?s New Gay-Bashing ?Islamic Republic?  - is believed to be gay or lesbian, and contributes to the already severe climate of hostility and fear for LGBTI people in the country,” said Cockburn.

Here's how you responded to Telstra's backflip on their backflip on marriage equality  - After days of intense public backlash and contract cancellations – with seemingly plenty more on the way – Telstra has made a spectacular U-turn on ...

State Department releases annual human rights report  -  LGBTI rights organizations reported that police forced several individuals to undergo rectal examinations while in custody and that prison authorities ...

First gay couple to marry in Ukraine shares their love story and hope for the future  - Last month, a LGBTI rights forum in Lviv was shut down by a group of ultra-nationalists who threw rocks and fireworks. The pride parades for 2014 and ...

Saturday Night Live has fun with anti- LGBTI bakers  - What's a plucky baker to do when forced to make a wedding cake for a gay couple? Saturday Night Live imagines the trailer for a heart warming ...

Britain's Got Talent's Young Dancer Speaks Of “ Gay ” Bullying  -  Britain's Got Talent judges emotionally break down after Jack Higgins admits to being bullied and being called gay after his heartbreaking ...

Super-gonorrhea' is new health concern for British gay men  - The outbreak of a strain of gonorrhea resistant to azithromycin was discovered among straight couples in 2015, in Leeds, and now has been ...

This ' homosexual types' list from a 1958 UK government report is insane  - It turns out the 1950s had a few more 'types' of gay than just bear or twink ... According to Richard Hauser, this is a list of 'types of homosexual '.

What's it like to be LGBTI in Malta?  - What's it like to be LGBTI in one of the smallest nations in the world? A new video from Sprout Media asks four students at the University of Malta what ...

I apologize to gay staff unfairly dismissed in the past  - Asked if GCHQ, as an employer, offered support to LGBTI staff who had to watch some of the shocking videos produced by ISIL, some of which shows ...

Safe Schools author Chris Bush on making kids safer, more tolerant and respectful  -  "I've always had an acute awareness for 'otherness'," says the Melbourne High School teacher, who co-authored the LGBTI anti-bullying curriculum ...

Why a plebiscite on same-sex marriage is dangerous and divisive  - Forty religious leaders urge the Prime Minister to drop the plan, warning it would "provide a platform for disparaging LGBTI people", "distance leaders ...

Scott Morrison to share Australian Christian Lobby stage with anti-gay extremists  - This is a group that is leading the legal fight to deny the human rights of LGBTI people around the world and we should all be deeply concerned that ...