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Leaked banned flags list says no to Wales but yes to the LGBT rainbow flag  - The rainbow LGBT flag has been given the green light “as a symbol of ... 14 May in Stockholm, Sweden with duo Joe and Jake representing the UK .

GLAAD calls on Star Wars to introduce LGBT characters - The number of LGBT characters featured in major hollywood movies remained unchanged in 2015, but the overwhelming majority were white, male ...

How much power do our local councillors have?  - Around Britain , council tax accounts for one-quarter of annual council ... which includes Eberle Street, a social hub for the city's LGBT community.

EastEnders boss says homophobia is still rife among viewers  - EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins has claimed that homophobia is as rife as ever among the show’s viewers.

Parents to keep children off school  - In an open letter to the education secretary, campaigners have warned of schools becoming "exam factories" and that testing causes stress and can ...

The top performing Northern Ireland schools at A-Level  - These results have prompted the principal of one of the top performing Catholic schools to call for the Department of Education to examine what ...

Thousands of children 'on strike' following SATs changes  - The Department for Education says SATs are part of its effort to raise standards and "help every child fulfil their potential regardless of their ...

How Britain Is Encouraging More Men to Go to College  - Even as more people than ever enter British higher education , the gulf between the proportion of boys and girls going to college continues to widen.

Why we must not ignore the continuing cost of poverty  - On the basis of 'relative poverty ' (income below 60% of the median after ... rates are currently just over 4.5 percentage points higher than in the UK .

Northern Ireland bishops urge voters to ask about abortion, poverty  - Northern Ireland was the only region in the U.K. where levels of childhood poverty actually increased, with over 101,000 children in Northern Ireland ...

The destitution paradox: poverty up, charity crisis grants down  - Despite years of austerity corroding the incomes of the poorest households, Britain's biggest child poverty grant-giver, Buttle UK , reported that referral ...

Beating the exam term blues  - She attends another university in the UK that, unlike Cambridge, offers Mental Health First Aid classes to the welfare representatives from its ...

Youngsters with eating disorders set to benefit from appointments of new mental health specialists  - Last year a £1.9m investment to transform child and adolescent mental health services in Norfolk and Waveney was announced, spearheaded by the ...

Paul Gascoigne describes his nephew's battle with mental health and addiction after his death  - Paul Gascoigne told of his tragic young nephew's own battle with mental health problems and addiction after his death at just 22. The body of Jay ...

Inside Britain's most dangerous prison where 'criminal rule and sexual savagery is commonplace'  - And their voices have been joined by many more colleagues who want out of the job before it's too late for their personal, physical and mental health .

Six out of 10 children's online pals aren't 'real' friends with almost half accepting requests from total ...  - Edinburgh is the Skype capital of Britain , while kids in Leeds are more likely to ... Do you have as much access to your child's social media accounts as ... is important for good mental health and wellbeing and children's friendships ...

St Petersburg parade allows Neo-Nazis to march while gay people are arrested, dragged and beaten  - St Petersburg expressly banned a protest for gay rights, as with all celebrations of LGBTI people, because it would violate the 'gay propaganda' law.

Hollywood has a serious LGBTI diversity issue, GLAAD study finds  - It is no secret that Hollywood has a diversity issue - just take a look at the past two years of OscarsSoWhite. But more than some may have expected, ...

AKL Pride Festival appoint two new Board members  - The Auckland Pride Festival has appointed two new Board members, including a young person with a passion for LGBTI youth engagement.

Create an LGBTI museum instead  - Sydney, the home of the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade – one of the largest celebrations of LGBTI Pride in the world – and a city where people ...

Being gay and muslim: 'death is your repentance'  - Imam Nur Wahrsage, who has long been an advocate for LGBTI muslims and founded Marhaba – a support group for queer muslims in Melbourne, ...

Senate acknowledges loss of Bangladeshi LGBTI magazine editor  - "It is a tragedy that someone such as Xulhaz Mannan, who has contributed so much to the LGBTI community, was felled in an act of homophobic ...

LGBTI Pride House to return to Glasgow this summer  - Pride House is returning to Glasgow this summer for the duration of the Homeless World Cup. The venue – which is a safe space for LGBTI people to ...

New anti-smoking campaign targets LGBTI youth  - A new campaign called 'This Free Life' by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hopes to curb this statistic and help LGBTI youth stop lighting ...

Scottish Labour leader wants to make a difference for LGBT young people  - Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, has revealed that she wants to use her position in politics to make a difference for LGBT young people.

LGBT inclusion in films static, diversity drops, study says  - Hollywood films remained static in their inclusiveness of LGBT characters in 2015, but the racial diversity of those characters ...

Shakespeare had gay characters too, people just ignored it  -  British Council and the British Film Institute will bring him to India in May as ... India continues to have a colonial-era law that criminalizes LGBT sex.

People are campaigning to make Elsa the first LGBT princess in Disney's history  - It was also widely praised as being one of the studio's most LGBT -friendly productions yet; Jonathan Groff is Disney Animation's first openly gay actor ...

Australia now has an openly gay Imam  - Nur Warsame is Australia's first openly gay Imam, an Islamic leader who runs a mosque. Having moved to the country from Somalia, he now runs ...

Children of gay fathers are as well adjusted as those with heterosexual parents, study finds  - Despite criticisms from traditionalists that same-sex parents can cause problems for their children, a new study adds to a growing body of evidence to ...

Hollywood films slip through with an 'adequate' grade for LGBTI representation  - The rating system identifies films as 'good', 'adequate' or 'failing' and for LGBTI representation, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner ...

Conservative Indonesians vs. LGBTI rights  -  LGBTI Indonesians often are at odds with conservative Muslims in their ... Police corruption, bias, and violence caused LGBTI individuals to avoid ...