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Ex-Irish President: Gay people make fine Catholic priests  - Earlier this month the Church ordered an inquiry into St Patrick's College in Maynooth, Co Kildare, amid accusations some trainees were using a gay  ...

I was raped to 'cure' me of being a lesbian "  - In Jamaica, it's a crime to be homosexual – in fact, it can be dangerous to even meet other women who are gay . But when Angeline Jackson, 25, ...

Thank you for being a friend: Bea Arthur's Shelter for LGBT Youth opening in 2017  - The late and great Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur continues to support the LGBT community as her shelter for homeless LGBT youth is set to open in ... div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">

Should parents be able to sue over poor exam results?  -  Education is a partnership between schools, parents and the child. ... and some foreign students have imported the paradigm to the UK .....much to their ...

High rate of youth unemployment a legacy of poor standards in Bradford schools says training boss  - The EY report also shows that percentage of young people employed as a share of total employment in Yorkshire was the highest in the UK at 14.2 ...

Campaigners fight to keep military away from UK schools  - Marlborough science academy is one of thousands of UK schools to invite in the .... The Educational Institute for Scotland, the largest teaching union in ...

Get rare Pokémon Go monsters out of our schools  - France's education minister has asked the company that makes Pokémon Go to keep its most valuable creatures out of French schools. At a press ...

Study underway into mental health in rural Scotland  - National charity Support in Mind Scotland and Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) has joined forces to run a survey to discover what it's like to live with ...

Study into black people's health is launched  - Everyday life has a big impact on mental health , and black communities in the UK are still more likely than others to face issues such as bad housing, ...

The women who discovered India's first HIV cases - Thirty years ago, India discovered the dreaded HIV virus had reached its shores when blood samples from six sex workers tested positive.

Britain's childhood obesity strategy is a blow for localism, a blow for the NHS – and a blow for London  - It can affect mental health and can lead to diabetes, heart disease and related cancers. We're seeing those horrendous ramifications on an acute level ...

Hillary Clinton unveils comprehensive mental health plan for the US  - Her goal is that within her time in office, Americans will no longer separate mental health from physical health when it comes to access to care or ...

Mental health officers shortfall in Scotland 'rises to highest level' - The shortfall in the number of mental health officers working in Scotland's councils reached its highest level last year, according to a new report.

Many people are living in fuel poverty .  - Mandy Clarkson, from Public Health at Lincolnshire County Council said: “People living in fuel poverty are unable to heat their home to the right ...

Action calls over fuel poverty shame as ministers admit promise to wipe it out has failed  - The Existing Homes Alliance (EHA), a coalition of housing, poverty and environmental groups, have written to the Government demanding they ...

At-risk LGBTI people don't need marriage, they need mental health care  - Maybe avoiding the plebiscite will improve the mental health of LGBTI people. Maybe legalising marriage equality will. But you know what definitely ...

Anti- LGBTI group continues lawsuit to ban gay sex in Indonesia  - Petitioners are set on banning gay sex in Indonesia and will plead their case again in the Constitutional Court today. Anti- LGBTI groups appeared in ...

LGBTI films and comedians recognised for theirs work  - CREATIVE LGBTI Australians are being recognised for their amazing work around the world as many pick up nomination nods in prestigious ...

Price of a plebiscite is too high for LGBTI young people  - The same sex marriage plebiscite is a hot button topic. The Greens and Nick Xenophon have decided to vote against a plebiscite. Labor have ...

Trump launches t-shirts for LGBTI supporters  - US presidential candidate Donald Trump is now selling rainbow t-shirts for LGBTI people to declare their support for him.

Final episode of docu-series focuses on gender identity  - They are a British classical and alternative singer-songwriter and LGBTI and transgender rights activist. 'The one time I was punched in the street in ...

Labor, cross-benchers to introduce marriage equality Bill  - Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has announced the Labor Party will introduce a private member's bill to make marriage equality for LGBTI  ...

Spanish LGBTI group takes stand against gay cure therapy  - The LGBTI group filed the complaint against psychotherapist Elena Lorenzo Rego under the new anti-homophobia laws introduced earlier this month ...

Maine's Stephen King says Gov. Paul LePage 'is a bigot, a homophobe , and a racist'  - Stephen King, once again, did not mince words about his opinion of Maine Gov. Paul LePage. “Our governor, Paul LePage, is a bigot, a homophobe , ...

Madrid LGBT group takes action over 'gay cure therapy'  - A Spanish pressure group that fights against homophobia has filed a ... But the LGBT group Arcópoli, which fights against homophobia in Madrid, filed ...

Homophobic religious leader arrested for child abuse  - A religious leader from the US South, who accused the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre of getting "what they deserved", was arrested for ...

Kambala school sends letter shaming parents complaining about gay teachers  - Kerryn Phelps, the first LGBT person to be elected as president of the Australian Medical Association, was quick to throw her support behind Ms ...

Church groups consider split from Church of England over LGBTI acceptance  - More than a dozen congregations are to meet in Tunbridge Wells to discuss a potential split from the Church of England over LGBTI acceptance.

Christian Warrior' threatens to kill LGBTI people in chilling Youtube video  - His profile picture shows a young boy urinating on the LGBTI pride flag. In a post about Pride parades, he said: 'When I see footage of gay pride ...

Depression is not a dirty word - it's time to start talking about it  - Studies have found that LGBTI youth attempt suicide more than three times more frequently than their heterosexual counterparts. Our community really ...

I'm sick of hearing straight people discussing same-sex marriage'  - Whether members of the LGBTI community are too promiscuous to deserve marriage. Whether or not marriage equality will undermine marriage as it ...