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You are not alone” – Jane Fonda shares message of support for LGBT youth  - During the premiere of season two of Netflix original Grace And Frankie, the legendary actress and LGBT ally told The Advocate that keeping hope is ...

Christian 'Extremists' Opposing Gay Marriage May Be Criminalised By Radical Islam Bill  - Sadly when the government says it wants to promote British Values it seems to mean gay rights. Trying to force Christians to sign up to LGBT rights ...

Poverty , despair, hunger for revenge drive young Syrians to extremist groups: research  - The need to earn a basic living, a desire for a sense of purpose and revenge are key factors that ...

Scandal of rising number of Leeds families grappling with food poverty problems  - Feed Leeds's Sonja Woodcock said: “This is the first time these two networks have worked together to address the issue of food poverty in the city, ...

Three Irish prison officers wait on tests after bite attack by ' HIV -Positive' rapist  - Three prison officers face a nervous wait for HIV tests after they were bitten by a ... Rapist Dube previously told a woman he was HIV Positive and had ...

UK study finds men with rectal STIs will benefit most from PrEP  - PrEP – pre-exposure prophylaxis – is an ongoing course of HIV medication taken by HIV negative people to dramatically reduce the risk of contracting ...

Hepatitis C now kills more Americans than HIV , tuberculosis and 60 other infectious diseases ...  - Hepatitis C is the unknown, silent killer that is infecting millions of Americans and is more deadly than every other infectious disease combined, says a ...

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HIV -positive patients get organs from donors with HIV in UK transplant first  - Organs from patients with HIV have been used in life-saving transplant operations in the UK for the first time. The four transplants – two livers from ...

Banks 'must support elderly '  - A report from the charity Age UK said banks and building societies must step up their efforts to support the needs of older customers – and warned that ...

1m workers aged over 65 'are blocking UK's career ladders'  - An army of almost one million older workers are holding down jobs in Britain . An average of 35 per cent across all ages were concerned an older  ...

More than a million people living in destitution in UK  - As well as suffering from mental health problems, many people living in ... The geographic distribution of destitution in the UK very closely matches that ...

Paranoia 'reduced' by virtual reality therapy  - In a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, an Oxford ... shown for people who had difficulties despite treatment in mental health services .

Government mental health champion axed after criticising school testing - The government's mental health champion, who has criticised how extensive testing of young people could impact on their stress levels, has been ...

Schools mental - health champion has job axed  - The government's mental - health champion for schools in England, who criticised the pressure put on children by the current testing regime, has been ...

Surgeons 'can perform hysterectomy on schizophrenic cancer patient'  - But he ruled that the trust could not be named until the woman had undergone surgery, left hospital and returned to a specialist mental health unit.

Kenyan court to hear case against alleged gay anal examinations  - Two men are seeking a Kenyan court ruling declaring enforced anal examinations unconstitutional after they were ...

Transgender woman completes 32 mile charity walk in high heels  - walked the entire distance from her home town to Edinburgh Castle on Saturday in order to support the work of three LGBTI charities: the Sahodari ...

How welcoming is academia to LGBT staff?  - And in preparing Australia's first LGBTI University Guide in 2015, the country's Human Rights Commission found that many universities were not ...

Peter Black - Equality Before the Law  - Peter, as well as lecturing in law, you are heavily involved in the LGBTI community – where does your drive for community involvement come from?

Beyoncé against North Carolina's HB2 but doesn't cancel Raleigh show  - She singled out Equality NC which is dedicated to securing equal rights and justice for LGBTI North Carolinians. Beyoncé praised Equality NC for ...

Obama to name Stonewall as the first LGBTI rights national monument  - President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognising the struggle for LGBTI rights, singling out a sliver of green space ...

19 LGBTI rights activists arrested in St Petersburg  - Police at the St Petersburg Labor Day parade cracked down on LGBTI people, with nineteen arrests made as an LGBTI rights protest was attempted.

Russian LGBT activists detained during May Day marches  - We are troubled by reports that LGBTI activists were banned from participating in May Day events, including in St. Petersburg, and that Russian police ...

Transgender politician poised for historic win in Catholic Philippines  -  If the 49-year-old candidate wins, it would be a remarkable breakthrough for the lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community.

Political parties should only select candidates that support LGBT equality  - It has been rising across the UK . From a health perspective, a lot of people who engage in it won't see themselves as having a problem. So, how do ...

Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer wants Westeros to show some gay pride  - Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer wants Westeros to show some gay pride ... James Barr joked that he wanted to go launch a local branch of LGBT  ...

California school allows lesbian couple to run for prom king and queen  - Over the weekend we reported that a lesbian couple were refused to run for prom king and queen because “it wasn't fair on the boys.” Jim Bartow, the ...

North Carolina governor admits his signing of anti- LGBTI bill may cost him reelection  - Despite widespread backlash and some high-profile boycotts, McCrory continues his staunch defense of the law that bans all local LGBTI rights ...

Court finally pays attention to Ugandan anti-bias lawsuit  -  LGBTI Ugandans have renewed reason to hope that they might gain a powerful ally in their fight against discrimination by anti- LGBTI employers and ...

Who should London's LGBTIs vote for as their mayor?  - But who should LGBTI people vote for? We've compiled a little cheat sheet to help you decide when you're filling out the voting form tomorrow (5 May).

Read how these gay twins can help give your career a boost  - One year ago, London-based French twins Adrien and Pierre Gaubert launched myGwork – a social networking site aimed at LGBTI professionals ...