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New anti-gun control ads attempt to win over women and LGBT voters  - An NRA-affiliated group are attempting to win over women and LGBT Californians with new anti-gun control television adverts. The Coalition for Civil ...

Joanna Lumley reveals something about her Absolutely Fabulous character Patsy - she's ...  - She said: 'You go back and pick through it, the amount of gay references and ease with which it's been put into the story, without it being dragged ...

Russian crime gangs find gays easy targets for blackmail  - Criminal gangs in Russia, operating through gay dating sites, have found a lucrative new blackmail target: ...

Honduras gay rights activist kidnapped and murdered  - An LGBT rights activist in Honduras has been found dead, days after he was kidnapped outside his home. 39-year-old gay activist Rene Martinez was ...

Stress in academy 'could cost universities'  - In her co-authored paper, “A qualitative study of the UK academic role: ... and Higher Education , Professor Macaskill and her colleagues interviewed ...

Can You Visit A Zoo Ethically? Harambe The Gorilla's Death Ignites Fresh Debate  - The killing of the critically-endangered animal, not by threats such as poachers or habitat loss, but at the hands of armed zoo staff, sparked international outrage. Some blamed the parents, others Cincinnati Zoo. Police are currently investigating the circumstances leading up to the animal’s death.

Christian fundamentalist schools are teaching girls they must obey men  - A rare photo inside an Accelerated Christian Education school, from the 1980s. Former pupils say the same classroom format is still used in the UK  ...

Banning psychoactive substances is not enough, we need education too  - Last week, the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 came into force in the UK . The law says that if a person produces, distributes, supplies, imports or ...

Thinking of having kids ? This is the best place in the UK to settle down  - MOST of us spend quite a bit of time deciding where we want to raise kids . Quality of life, work and the level of school available will all play into that ...

30% of New England illegal immigrants re-offend after being released from prison  - Those new offenses - committed by immigrants who were not deported once their prison sentences were up despite orders to do so - included child  ...

Phone-obsessed parents putting their children at risk, safety charity warns  - Parents obsessed by their mobile phones are putting their children in danger of serious accidents, a leading children's charity has warned.

How Babbling And Playing Can Help Nurture Your Baby's Mental ...  -  Mental health begins in early childhood, which opens a window of ... UK that the first 1001 days of a baby's life is a pivotal time for mental health .

Women 'nearly twice as likely to be anxious'  - is lowest in east Asia, where less than three in 100 people have this mental health problem. Women are almost twice as likely to be affected as men, ...

Anxiety disorders 'need more research', says global study - Stephen Buckley, head of information at mental health charity Mind, said anxiety was one of the most common mental health problems in the UK .

Unsafe hospital discharge of older patients 'getting worse'  - Later today, I will appear before the Public Accounts Committee to give evidence to their inquiry into the discharge of older people from hospitals.

Why Remaining in the EU Matters Most to Young People  - Young people today want to see the UK working internationally to tackle ... Yet, we must also urge older people to help us close the generation gap.

Bernadette Peters: 'I don't do the Diva things – It's a waste of time'  - Bernadette Peters talks to Attitude to discuss all things gay , drag and how she keeps herself looking so fabulous.

Britain's Largest LGBT Domestic Violence Charity Closes  - Broken Rainbow, Britain's largest charity for the survivors and victims of Domestic Abuse has ceased trading. Britiain's largest charity for LGBT ...

Matthew Todd on growing up gay : "We are strapped inside a cultural straitjacket"  - On 8 April 2013, at the offices of Attitude (the UK's bestselling gay magazine, of which I am editor), as we watched the world's reaction to the passing of ...

Gay marriage vote 'risks church split'  - The leader of the Scottish Episcopal Church has conceded that a vote on same- sex marriage this week risks putting it at odds with the remainder of the ...

Mr Gay Wales on life as the contest's first ever winner with a physical disability - Paul Davies, the first-ever disabled Mr Gay , tells Attitude how he wants to make a difference. .... Not just in the UK and Ireland, but across the world.

LGBTI activist murdered in Honduras - 39-year old Martinez worked in an anti violence outreach program and was a wellknown and respected activist in the LGBTI community. The attorney ...

Tens of thousands of Singaporeans blanket a field in pink for pride  - Singapore's annual LGBTI pride gathering received a massive turnout again this year, with tens of thousands of Singaporeans showing up for the Pink ...

Melbourne Uber driver sacked over homophobic abuse  - His attitudes aren't safe, not just for LGBTI people, but people of any diverse background," she said. "You need to know, when you're getting in a car ...

Making LGBTI inclusion happen in aged care  - Gay and Lesbian Rights in Ageing are holding a breakfast seminar next week that looks into how businesses and service providers can be ...

Inside Mongolia's Only Gay Bar - and Human Rights Watch against state authorities to register the LGBT Centre, Mongolia's first and only LGBTI human rights organization.

NBA might still move 2017 All-Star Game out of North Carolina - Carolina which has suffered political and economic backlash since the passage of HB2 which bans all local LGBTI rights ordinances in the state.

Prominent LGBT activist murdered in Honduras  - A leader in the LGBTI community in San Pedro Sula and a rising political figure in Honduras, his death comes as a great shock,” said the Embassy in ...

What I've learned from counseling gay men for the past 25 years  - a ground-breaking book that explored the mental health issues faced by LGBTI people and the services they received from therapists and ...

Citizenship rights, discrimination and stigmatisation of LGBTI students by health care services at a ...  - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) individuals experience stigmatisation and discrimination in their everyday lives.

Is the world now a better place for LGBTI people?  - Overall, the world is probably a better place for LGBTI people than it was a few decades ago, but whether that generalization sounds right or sounds ...

Spate of gay custody battles force law to define what a parent is: could this mean more rights for ...  - And in Canada, the premier of Ontario has pledged to change the law so that both parents in an LGBTI couple are immediately entered onto the birth ...