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Buoyed By Trump Win, Texas Senator Poised To Reintroduce Bill Protecting Businesses For ...

Buoyed By Trump Win, Texas Senator Poised To Reintroduce Bill Protecting Businesses For ... - But the bill's already getting pushback from the LGBTQ community. Chuck Smith, CEO of Equality Texas, told KXAN the proposed law's use of religion ...

Tips For Mental Health Friendly Resolutions

Tips For Mental Health Friendly Resolutions - It's that time of year again when we tell ourselves we need to change and be better- but whether or not we stick to our resolutions isn't a test of our ...

Less than half of domestic abuse reports to police are logged as a crime

Less than half of domestic abuse reports to police are logged as a crime - Less than half of reports made to police about domestic abuse are logged as a crime, figures have revealed. Police Scotland data from the first two ...

A Brexit bust? No, the real danger lies in the debt-fuelled boom

A Brexit bust? No, the real danger lies in the debt-fuelled boom - The evidence that the economy has taken the Brexit vote comfortably in its stride is, by now, surely overwhelming. Employment, although it took a ...

Brexit, homes and my hardest decision

Brexit , homes and my hardest decision - I think that everyone would agree that 2016 will long live in the memory; and no doubt in history. I could never have predicted both Brexit and Donald ...

Britons must unite after their "divisive" Brexit, Theresa May says in New Year message

Britons must unite after their "divisive" Brexit , Theresa May says in New Year message - Britons must unite after their "divisive" decision to leave the European Union, Theresa May has said, as she pledged to use the next 12 months to ...

Minority school success falls short in job market

Minority school success falls short in job market - It is deeply concerning that poor white British boys are doing so badly in education , from the early years through to university. Yet they are less likely ...

Cannabis ingredient to be classed as medicine

Cannabis ingredient to be classed as medicine - Gerald Heddel, director of inspection and enforcement at the agency, told Sky News: "The change really came about with us offering an opinion that CBD is in fact a medicine, and that opinion was based on the fact that we noted that people were making some quite stark claims about serious diseases that could be treated with CBD."

Mental health problems hit more than a quarter of Scots

Mental health problems hit more than a quarter of Scots - New research has indicated nearly 30% of Scots say they have experienced mental health problems. Commissioned by the mental health campaign ...

Anti-gay US pastor in joint venture with Cape Town church

Anti- gay US pastor in joint venture with Cape Town church - An unapologetically anti- homosexual Cape Town preacher is planning to open two churches in South Africa , along with banned US ...

Watchdog clears 'homophobic' ALDI ad after supermarket claims character is actually straight

Watchdog clears ' homophobic ' ALDI ad after supermarket claims character is actually straight - An ALDI Christmas ad accused of perpetuating homophobic stereotypes has been cleared by the advertising watchdog, after the supermarket claimed ...

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap - OutRight Action International posted video of a panel discussion on “the future of global LGBTIQ activism over the next four years, Trump’s potential impact, and our strategies for strengthening our community and resilient activism as we move forward.”

The Biggest LGBT Advances of 2016

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The Biggest LGBT Advances of 2016 - of increased LGBT visibility around the world. Here's Matt trying to put a positive spin on 2016 with his video "The Biggest LGBT Advances of 2016" ...

Kim Burrell Addresses Homophobic Remarks Days Before Appearance On 'The Ellen DeGeneres ...

Kim Burrell Addresses Homophobic Remarks Days Before Appearance On 'The Ellen DeGeneres ... - Kim Burrell's video has emerged in which she delivers a Sermon and attacks the LGBT people by calling them "Sinners" and "perverts." The video was ...

4 cities you totally need to visit in the Midwest

4 cities you totally need to visit in the Midwest - Travelling to America as a gay man you probably think New York, South Beach or San Francisco, well we recently had a little vagaytion to America's ...

The first ever UK Pride is coming in 2017!

The first ever UK Pride is coming in 2017! - The theme for the first UK Pride is LGBT 50 and is a multi-generational opportunity to show how far we've come since the partial decriminalization of ...

Children 'at risk' in Christian fundamentalist schools in the UK, warns government watchdog

Children 'at risk' in Christian fundamentalist schools in the UK , warns government watchdog - Other material stated LGBT people are inferior and unnatural. ... which operates ACE schools in the UK , told The Independent they were not aware of ...

Stories of race and isolation in London

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Stories of race and isolation in London - Two reports from official UK bodies were published at the end of 2016. The first one traced the persistent isolation of immigrant communities from the mainstream of British life. The second, with no reference or connection to the first, but with a symbiotic relevance to it, was about the discrimination of race that persists in the practices of employment.

A racist LGBT community cannot call for equality while discriminating against others

A racist LGBT community cannot call for equality while discriminating against others - A racist LGBT community cannot call for equality while discriminating ... There's a reason UK Black Pride exists, along with non-white LGBT groups ...

Kelvin Mackenzie Has Yet Again Spread The False Idea That Religion And LGBT Equality Are Not ...

Kelvin Mackenzie Has Yet Again Spread The False Idea That Religion And LGBT Equality Are Not ... - Yesterday, The Sun columnist Kelvin Mackenzie suggested we should start fighting Isis. This was prompted by us calling out a homophobic joke made ...

2016 in review: World events that changed history

2016 in review: World events that changed history - It was however, a half victory for LGBT Italians because the law does not allow ... The British vote to leave the European Union in June after 43 years of ...

How does being Pro-Open Borders and Pro-EU benefit LGBT people?

How does being Pro-Open Borders and Pro-EU benefit LGBT people? - Seeing as there are so many Left-wing LGBT people (I think it's obvious, 3/4 LGBT Americans consistently vote Democrat, and in the UK I think most ...

Westboro Baptist Church had a last ditch attempt at using Pokémon Go to spread anti-LGBT ...

Westboro Baptist Church had a last ditch attempt at using Pokémon Go to spread anti- LGBT ... - Players around the area began to use the gym to make political statements by naming their Pokémon characters with pro- LGBT messages. One player ...

In red states, businesses gearing up to fight bathroom bills

In red states, businesses gearing up to fight bathroom bills - North Carolina's law omits LGBT people from state anti-discrimination protections and orders transgender people to use bathrooms in schools and ...

The 8 LGBTI people you need to know on the New Year's Honor List

The 8 LGBTI people you need to know on the New Year's Honor List - Recognized for her work on women's issues and with the LGBTI community, she also established Alternative Parenting Week – an initiative aimed at ...