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What have been the defining moments in your LGBT life? - They are crowdsourcing photos, memories, film footage, historic documents, club flyers, outfits, protest banners, posters, music, diary entries and much more to help tell this important story. If you have a photo of your first girlfriend, memories of the Gateways Club, the placard you held when Lesbians and Gays Supported the Miners at 1985 Pride, they want to hear from you!

Kate Brown becomes first openly LGBT person elected US governor - Openly bisexual Democratic politician Kate became the first out LGBT person to be elected as a governor in the country, winning an estimated 51% of ...

Event professionals "disappointed" in Trump election result - The UK events industry has reacted with sombre acceptance and ... of an industry that is over-represented by women and LGBT people, but have also ...

UN Vote on the Independent Expert for the LGBT Community - The UK is a tolerant country, yet according to Galop, a UK -based anti-violence LGBT charity, we have seen a 147% increase in hate crimes against ...

New overseas student restrictions 'could be financially fatal to universities' - Universities Scotland said higher education institutions in the UK are already at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting students from overseas ...

British teachers arrive in Shanghai for maths training - Over 70 math teachers from primary schools in the United Kingdom arrived ... Clare Fowler, director of maths education policy at the UK Education  ...

Rise of multi-jobbers in UK's gig economy a myth, study finds - Workers in some sectors, notably education and health, are much more likely than those in others to have multiple jobs. More than 6 per cent of ...

Theresa May must open the door to more Indian students – or Britain will lose out massively - I came to the UK as a student in the early 1980s, where I knew I would receive a world-class education . The UK has, along with the US, the best ...

Young people deserve better mental health - Depression, self-harm and anxiety are on the rise amongst the UK's youth. ... We need to re-design a system that makes children ill from stress and ...

Mental health should be taught in schools, like numeracy - The Value-Based Child and Adolescent Mental Health System ... but in order for it to be truly effective, we need to see similar initiatives across the UK .

NHS discrimination warning as study finds those beyond screening age limits more likely to have ... - Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK said the failure to invite older people for bowel cancer screening was letting the elderly down. “Although ...

Teenagers and elderly people enjoy tea party - The girls also applied for funding from vInspired, the UK's leading youth ... vInspired helps to give young people opportunities to make a difference ...

One in three kids in Glasgow will lack food or shelter tonight in this land of plenty - The report states that, across the UK , 3.5 million children are living in poverty . The report comes just a few months after Scotland's latest Index of ...

Benefits freeze contributes to child poverty - The End Child Poverty coalition has today published new figures revealing more than 3.5 million children are living in poverty in the UK , with the ...

10 ways to keep your house warm (and save money) this winter - The most recent figures show that 2.38m households in the UK are in fuel poverty – which basically means that almost 11% of British homes cannot ...

24% of children in Northern Ireland 'living in poverty ' - End Child Poverty is calling on the UK Government to use the upcoming Autumn Statement to end the freeze on children's benefits and to reverse the ...

Pastor Defends Speech in US Against International Law Claim -  The suit makes the sensational claim that Lively's visits were part of a “conspiracy” to “persecute” the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ...

Tanzania's anti-gay crackdown now targets AIDS programs - The latest move follows September's threat to ban Tanzanian groups working for LGBTI rights and July's crackdown on import and sales of sexual ...

Find out what 10 LGBTI celebs are tweeting on US Election Day - Gay Star News has been scanning Twitter for what LGBTI celebrities are saying so far about today's US presidential election. Many just wants folks to ...

Chengdu, the Questionable Queer Capital of China - But later that same evening, Milks Friends notified participants that the venue for the following day's inaugural National LGBTI Youth Conference had ...

Hillary Clinton's 8 best LGBT moments - The program was launched in December 2011 to empower LGBTI people to live freely and exercise their rights without fear of discrimination or abuse.

The US has elected its first openly LGBTI governor - Brown is not the first LGBTI to serve as governor – former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey came out as gay in 2004 and resigned months later.

Homophobic hate crime predicted to skyrocket as Donald Trump wins US election - In a poll from Gallup, hate crimes against LGBTI during July, August and September increased 147% compared with the same months last year.

14% of LGBT people voted for Donald Trump - While Clinton went to go to visit the Pulse memorial after 49 LGBTI people were killed, Trump did not. The Log Cabin Republicans, the LGBTI group in ...

We Are Closer Than Ever Before To Achieving Marriage Equality - The past year has been an exhausting and stressful one for LGBTI people. The prospect of a national public vote on our equality as citizens has been ...

Here is what the presidential candidates and their VPs have to say about LGBTI rights - Many people have already made up their mind and know who they'll vote for on 8 November – but others are still unsure whehter they should vote at ...

Concern As Anti-LGBTPropaganda Distributed InRural Areas - presence of such propaganda in rural areas is concerning, partly due to the lack of resources available to members of local LGBTI communities.

The plebiscite is dead, hopefully it takes all the straightsplaining with it - Your suggestion that an acrimonious debate will prompt suicides and other mental health issues in the LGBTI community is obnoxious. These are ...

Canberra's LGBTI community sighs with relief at death of same-sex marriage plebiscite - Lesbian Holly Hafner​, who says the LGBTI community is already plagued by mental illness, suicide, violence and bigotry, believes the blocking of the ...

It's time for the next stage of the marriage equality campaign. Here's the plan - Back then it was a way to show young LGBTI people they have the same opportunities in life as everyone else, but now it is urgently needed to affirm ...

How and why we Australians killed Tony Abbott's same-sex marriage equality plebiscite - But what happened to the marriage equality plebiscite in the Senate late yesterday (7 November), is a David and Goliath tale of how LGBTI Australia ...

DA to Call for a Debate On Violation of Madiba's Human Rights Policy - The intention to vote to remove this watch dog sends a clear signal that South Africa does not support the promotion of and protection of LGBTI rights.