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Opposition councillors call for LGBT discussion with Frank McAveety after meeting ran out of time - COUNCILLORS are urging Glasgow city council leader Frank McAveety to meet with equality campaigners after a meeting discussing their plight was ...

How One Catholic Church Is Supporting Its LGBTQ Members - When journalist and videographer Eric Kruszewski first learned about LEAD, an LGBT church outreach program started at St. Matthew Catholic church ...

The stunning moment a 12-year-old boy stood up to thousands of anti- gay demonstrators - A photographer captured the moving image as rallies took place against same-sex marriage in Mexico over the weekend.

Half of teachers 'didn't read' government guidance on LGBT -inclusive education - As pressure mounts for LGBT issues to be taught in all Scottish schools. the TIE campaign this week launched a report highlighting high rates of ...

Sex education in schools is inadequate, say MPs - Sex education in schools is inadequate, say MPs ... 5,500 sexual offences were recorded in UK schools over a three-year period, including 600 rapes.

Comment: It is the economy, not schools, we need to fix - It sent off those children to careers around the UK and the world. ... For too long the UK has separated education into a world of class and possibility.

Pregnant Alex Jones calls for more education to end the 'taboo' subject of fertility problems as she ... - The One Show presenter spoke to Radio Times about the importance of education about conception and her discovery shortly after getting married, ...

Sexual Harassment Affecting More Than Half Of Girls And Women At Schools And Colleges - and sexual violence that is not being tackled effectively in British schools. ... MPs criticised the Department for Education and Ofsted for lacking a ...

Health warnings ahead of hottest September day in 50 years - With temperatures predicted to hit 31C tomorrow – the UK looks set to be ... 'But for some people, such as older people , those with underlying health ...

Older people underrepresented in film, new survey finds -  Older people are significantly underrepresented in movies and often are the butt of ageist jokes, an analysis of top films has found.

Is the Older People's Shared Ownership Scheme all that it seems? We investigate - It's why the government-backed Older People's Shared Ownership Scheme (OPSO), specifically designed to help people aged 55 and over, can be ...

Self-Harm Affects Adult Women Too - According to the UK's leading mental health charity, Mind, self-harm is the act of inflicting pain on oneself. It's usually associated with a mental health  ...

Why MPs are Fighting for Cannabis to be Legalised in UK - Why MPs are Fighting for Cannabis to be Legalised in U.K. ... the ability to drive as well as causing harm to lungs if smoked and harm to mental health , ...

David Cameron's premiership damaged the UK's LGBT community – equal marriage or not' - The the six years of Cameron's premiership, austerity has seen a year-on-year reduction in mental health provision for some of the most vulnerable ...

The Importance of World Suicide Prevention Day - In 2014, in the UK there were 6,581 registered suicides (552 in London alone), which counts as roughly 18 per day ( Mental Health Foundation 2015 ...

There Are Three Gay Children In Every School Classroom, And They Deserve Your ... - Those who bully, mock or reject others on the grounds of thinking that the way they act is ' gay ' need to see that, actually, being ' gay ' is not a sign of ...

Over the rainbow? Interview with Matt Todd about how to be gay and happy - But after eight years of editing the UK's most popular gay lifestyle magazine, he has observed the slow, incremental changes in gay culture – and he ...

Conservative Christian Blogger Faces Hate Crime In Britain - Ms. Ozanne is a leading campaigner for the acceptance of LGBTI people in the Church and has often spoken out on the subject and previously said ...

Funding people to insult us': children of LGBTI families say they don't want a plebiscite - A group of LGBTI Australians and their children have come to Canberra to lobby parliamentarians to legalise same-sex marriage and block the ...

Home affairs officials' homophobic 'government-sanctioned discrimination' revealed - The fact that only 28% of home affairs officials are willing to marry same-sex couples has been met with “shock and disappointment” by LGBTI activists.

South African authorities engaging LGBTI on controversial pastor's visit - South Africa's Department of Home Affairs (DHA) said Friday it was still engaging with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) ...

LGBTI Queenslanders Discuss Their Pasts, Presents and Futures - A free, day-long conference in Brisbane tomorrow will bring together a group of prominent LGBTI Queenslanders to address the questions, “In your ...

Advocates condemn public funding of plebiscite campaign and call for Labor to block legislation -  LGBTI advocates have condemned the Coalition government for its plans to pledge public funds to the campaigns of both sides of the marriage ...

Homophobic ? You might be gay - Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is ...

New Trump Ad Doesn't Deny Half His Supporters Are 'Racist, Sexist, Homophobic ... - The Donald Trump campaign Monday morning released a new ad in response to Hillary Clinton saying that half of his supporters are "racist, sexist, ...

New Documentary Challenges the Stereotype that All Latino Men are Homophobes - Latino men are constantly battling stereotypes. One of them: That they're all macho homophobes , a myth a new documentary hopes to shatter.

RuPaul just won an EMMY - been broadcasting since 2009 – and has just been green-lit for it's 9TH SERIES and has become one of the world's most visible LGBT programmes.

Renewed call for LGBT education in schools to be made mandatory - Scotland's teachers feel woefully ill-equipped to deal with LGBT issues such as homophobic abuse in schools, a major new report has found.

UK tells gay Ugandan asylum seeker he can Skype his boyfriend after he is deported - John Senyondo, 44, is in detention awaiting officers who will force him on a Kenya Airways flight to Kampala tonight at 6.45pm. He has been refused an appeal. Senyondo left Uganda in 2008 and immediately found support and love in the church and a couple of years later in LGBTI activism.

Church demands public cash to fight for no vote in gay marriage referendum - Church leaders in Australia have clashed with the country's prime minister over an alleged pledge for funding in the upcoming referendum on same  ...

Chinese gay rights activist sues Ministry of Education over textbooks calling homosexuality a ... - Qiu Bai, a Chinese student who sued the Ministry of Education over school textbooks describing homosexuality as a mental disorder, shows the ...