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Chicago Blackhawks' Shaw sorry for gay slur  - I apologize to many people, including the gay and lesbian community, the Chicago Blackhawks organization, Blackhawks fans and anyone else I may ...

First Chilean policeman in gay union celebrates in Santiago  - A uniformed policeman celebrated his gay civil union in Chile's capital, Santiago, on Wednesday, the first time a ...

Ben Mitchell's Gay Lover Quits EastEnders  - EastEnders it seems has a one in and one out policy for gay characters as Johnny Carter makes a return to the square and Paul Coker, Ben Mitchell's ...

Five things we learnt from Boy George's interview with Fault magazine  - Boy George has appeared on the cover of Fault magazine to talk about his future, The Voice, and the artists he's loving right now. Here's five things we ...

The law will not end infant circumcisions, but education just might  - Yet over the years UK governments have almost entirely neglected their duty of care on this question. No formal attempts have been made to quantify ...

Primary school spelling test leaked online before Sats exam  - Although the test has still not been taken by most students, the same paper will still be used and Department for Education has asked teachers not to ...

Parents who admit home schooling their children was cruel  - In July 2014, like many middle-class mothers, she made the fateful decision to remove her children from school and educate them herself at home.

Go Study in the UK on Scholarship  - The British Council has announced Goa Education Trust scholarships to the UK . These scholarships will fund Indians to pursue a Masters ...

Military sexual trauma tied to increased risk of homelessness - Veterans who experienced sexual trauma in the military are at increased risk for homelessness , according to a new U.S. study.

Age gap leads to more divorces as 1 in 5 couples who end their marriage have 7 year gap  - The newly-divorced older men – and sometimes women – often end up remarrying rapidly to much younger new partners, who seem exciting as ...

Spike in deaths of over-75s across West Berkshire  - Chief Executive of Age UK Berkshire Mike Allen called the local statistics ... “Transport, or lack of it, is the biggest issue raised by older people across ...

Outsourcing Warfare: Sierra Leone's Ex-Child Soldiers Offered to UK Firms  - Former child soldiers from Sierra Leone were outsourced to private British ... but all of them are living in terrible poverty ," the filmmaker told Sputnik.

UK dementia rates have fallen sharply in men  - A UK study of dementia trends over the last 20 years suggests that the ... They then used the same questions to assess the mental health of a group of ...

New child mental health support service launched  - Research has found that 850,000 children aged 5-16 in the UK are currently living with a mental health issue. This means that in a typical school ...

UK dementia cases fell 20% between 1989 and 2011  - But Dr Sujoy Mukherjee, a consultant psychiatrist at West London Mental Health Trust and a member of Dementia Strategic Clinical Network, London, ...

Secret UK surveillance policies leaked online  - A dataset on you may even contain details of physical and mental health -- which suggests UK spies have access to records held by the UK's National ...

The truth about stalking in the LGBTI community  - In the LGBTI community, 44 per cent had experienced force sexual contact, 27 per cent of respondents had experienced their stalker threatening to kill ...

Australia's First LGBTI 'Pride Centre' Coming Up in Victoria: Bigger Than San Francisco's Centre?  - In a move to ensure equality, the Victorian Government has announced the setting up of Australia's first Pride Centre at Melbourne at a cost of $15 ...

First US envoy for gay rights welcomes limited advances  -  There at once is an emerging consensus worldwide that LGBTI persons should enjoy the same human rights as everyone else. And yet, there remain ...

UK warns LGBTI travellers who wish to travel to US  - The UK Foreign Office is now warning LGBTI tourists who plan to travel to North Carolina and Mississippi in light of the new anti-gay laws in both ...

University flies flag with pride  - The facts speak for themselves: LGBTI people systematically experience poorer mental health outcomes than their straight equivalents,” he said.

LGBTI groups vying for space in the multimillion-dollar Pride Centre  - The announcement comes as some LGBTI groups face an uncertain future in their current location. City Village on Bourke Street – home to gay and ...

Hungary Tripped the EU again with Poland's Help on LGBTI Rights  - The Dutch presidency attempted at pushing through a two documents package – one on gender equality and the other on the rights of LGBTI people.

NYC conference brings together those wishing to target lucrative LGBTI market  - Four days of LGBTI marketing, technology and advertising-related discussions, this year's event will look at a range of issues, from adapting ...

Mona Lisa based on Da Vinci's gay lover, art detective claims  - The Mona Lisa was based not just on a Florentine merchant's wife but also on Leonardo da Vinci's male apprentice and probable gay lover, an Italian ...

Gay Venezuelan 'artivist' fights homophobia , discrimination  - Arzola told the Blade that his mother, who is a teacher, is “not homophobic anymore.” He said she now wears a t-shirt that promotes his art in her ...

Try being gay for a day  - shows a studied lack of knowledge about the social phenomenon of homophobia , the nature of homosexuality, AND how HIV is spread. Permit me to ...

Homophobia in Morocco: Gay or Straight, It's Personal  - The attackers subsequently forced one of the victims to go out naked in public. The macabre scene caused multiple reactions while Moroccan authorities did not side with the victims, but surprisingly sentenced one of them to four months in jail and are waiting for the other’s prosecution.

Homophobia in Sport inquiry launched  - The committee notes that “there are currently no openly gay footballers in Scotland and England's professional divisions abd homophobic abuse ...

The Voice, X Factor and Britain's Got Talent favorites on Digital Pride main stage  - There will be a rich mix of music, ranging from top LGBTI choir The Pink Singers to gay hip hop artist Q Boy. And the main stage will be hosted by ...

Parents outraged after UK city allows trans children to be treated as their identified gender  - Parents are outraged after Brighton and Hove council has urged people to support three and four-year-old children to identify in whatever gender they ...