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Artificial insemination parenting bill draws LGBT criticism

Artificial insemination parenting bill draws LGBT criticism -  Two Tennessee lawmakers want to do away with a 40-year-old state law granting legitimacy to children conceived through artificial insemination.

Donald Trump, who campaigned on rolling back trans rights, has begun rolling back trans rights

Donald Trump, who campaigned on rolling back trans rights, has begun rolling back trans rights -  LGBT advocacy groups lambasted the DOJ decision, one made just two days after Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Senator whose confirmation was ...

Oxford Pride organiser welcomes bishops' intervention on LGBT issues

Oxford Pride organiser welcomes bishops' intervention on LGBT issues - The retired bishops' letter said: “Our perception is that while the pain of LGBT people is spoken about in your report, we do not hear its authentic voice.

I Won't Accept Gay Conservatives 'Coming Out' as Trump Supporters

I Won't Accept Gay Conservatives 'Coming Out' as Trump Supporters -  LGBT writer Skylar Baker-Jordan refused to accept homosexuals who “come out” as supporters of President Trump in a new article for The ...

Europe's chief Brexit negotiator says: 'We need the Scottish people ... we cannot afford to lose that'

Europe's chief Brexit negotiator says: 'We need the Scottish people ... we cannot afford to lose that' - AS Scots from all over the country send their Valentine's Day love to the EU, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator has told The National, ...

Brexit: Interest in UK jobs from EU graduates falls by 18% after the referendum, LinkedIn data shows

Brexit : Interest in UK jobs from EU graduates falls by 18% after the referendum, LinkedIn data shows -  Brexit is already preventing UK businesses from accessing top talent from across Europe, according to new research. Britain saw a sharp dip in the ...

Inflation hits 1.8% as post-Brexit pound weakness feeds through to high street

Inflation hits 1.8% as post- Brexit pound weakness feeds through to high street - With Britain seemingly heading for a hard Brexit , it's likely we will see the pound continue to wobble over the next two years, resulting in higher ...

EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns

EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out a million British expats, Brussels report warns - EU states could take revenge for Brexit by kicking out more than a million expats, a Brussels report has warned. A leaked document drawn up by the ...

Mental health: the last great taboo

Mental health : the last great taboo -  Mental health affects us all – as individuals and as business leaders, with related illnesses estimated to cost the UK almost five per cent of its GDP.

Mental health professionals warn Trump is incapable of being president

Mental health professionals warn Trump is incapable of being president - 

Premature babies at greater risk of mental health problems such as depression and anxiety

Premature babies at greater risk of mental health problems such as depression and anxiety - Premature babies at greater risk of mental health problems such as ... are born prematurely each year needing specialist hospital care in the UK .

Overseas aid: UK plan to 'empower' poor nations

Overseas aid: UK plan to 'empower' poor nations - To address concerns about value for money in aid spending at a time of austerity, ministers want to spend more of the money not only relieving poverty  ...

Boris Johnson diverts £700m from foreign aid budget to 'pro-democracy' fund to tackle Putin

Boris Johnson diverts £700m from foreign aid budget to 'pro-democracy' fund to tackle Putin - countries in Africa and the Middle East and elsewhere, where we've also got challenges of poverty and other risks to UK national security. "It seems ...

Older People And Sex: A Taboo

Older People And Sex: A Taboo - Thanks to medical and scientific advances, people are living longer, healthier lives and are enjoying better sex in later life as a result. However, while ...

The secret to happiness in later life is simple to discover, but hard to achieve

The secret to happiness in later life is simple to discover, but hard to achieve - It is into this context that the British charity Age UK has launched its Index of .... Age UK's index identifies the cohort of older people with low levels of ...

Older people may be having more sex than you think, study suggests

Older people may be having more sex than you think, study suggests - Far from being over the hill sexually, octogenarians may be having far more satisfying sex than younger generations appreciate, new research ...

Trump, Brexit And Fascism Leave UK 'Savagely Divided' - Archbishop Of Canterbury

Trump, Brexit And Fascism Leave UK 'Savagely Divided' - Archbishop Of Canterbury - Trump, Brexit And Fascism Leave UK 'Savagely Divided' - Archbishop Of ... Canon Simon Butler, a gay member of synod was sent a text by another ...

57% of young people in the UK don't identify as being totally straight

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57% of young people in the UK don't identify as being totally straight - One in two people don't conform to rigid labels such as straight, lesbian and gay and prefer to take a more fluid approach when it comes to sexuality.

Church faces gay marriage defeat

Church faces gay marriage defeat - The Church of England's House of Bishops may face defeat when the General Synod votes on a report on same-sex marriage this week, retired ...

One Nation candidate warns of Nazi styled covert gay mind control program

One Nation candidate warns of Nazi styled covert gay mind control program - She goes on to explain the the LGBTI community use a disingenuous mind control program created by two unnamed homosexuals from Norway.

30% of hookup site users have participated in PnP

30% of hookup site users have participated in PnP - The Victorian AIDS Council has recently called for greater awareness of the needs of LGBTI people within mainstream alcohol and other drug services ...

Push to get more LGBTI content into Korean schools

Push to get more LGBTI content into Korean schools -  LGBTI groups in South Korea are calling on the government to have LGBTI content added to sex education in schools. The Department of Education ...

Malaysia openly endorses 'gay cure' therapy

Malaysia openly endorses 'gay cure' therapy - The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) released a video last week explaining how non- LGBTI people could change their sexuality ...

President Trump has decided to keep Obama's LGBT rights envoy

President Trump has decided to keep Obama's LGBT rights envoy - A State Department spokesperson said that Berry, the Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, is continuing “in his role under the ...

Texas Governor mocks threats to move future Super Bowl over anti-LGBT laws

Texas Governor mocks threats to move future Super Bowl over anti- LGBT laws < -  The Governor of Texas has dismissed threats to move the Super Bowl out of Texas if he signs an anti- LGBT law. Republican lawmaker Greg Abbott ...

Hypocrite' Trump axed transgender protections just days after claiming to support LGBT rights

Hypocrite' Trump axed transgender protections just days after claiming to support LGBT rights - President Trump appears to have lost control of his administration – after officials went ahead to scrap anti-discrimination protections just days after the ...

British officials want fans banned for homophobia at pro and youth matches

British officials want fans banned for homophobia at pro and youth matches - British Members of Parliament have levied a scathing report about the persistence of homophobic language and other anti-LGBT messages at ...

Diversity class has multiple 'isms' as fact with no debate

Diversity class has multiple 'isms' as fact with no debate - It's a place full of racism, homophobia , toxic masculinity, white privilege and sexism, according to a diversity class currently taught at the University of ...

Claiming Mike Pence is gay is an insult to LGBTQIA+ people, not Pence himself

Claiming Mike Pence is gay is an insult to LGBTQIA+ people, not Pence himself - Many of the replies to Eichner's tweet promote the idea that “the only people as homophobic as Pence are closeted gay people.” This is blatantly ...

How 'Aligarh' Helps Us Chart Out Different Layers Of Power Structures

How 'Aligarh' Helps Us Chart Out Different Layers Of Power Structures - Thus, Aligarh can be seen as a site for defining the institutional modalities of sexuality and a homophobic structure through which the sexual code of ...

Gay-And-Proud Filmmaker Faraz Ansari Talks About Fighting Homophobia With India's First Silent ...

Gay-And-Proud Filmmaker Faraz Ansari Talks About Fighting Homophobia With India's First Silent ... - Given the homophobic Indian context, a movie on the LGBT community isn't the most viable option, clearly, in terms of public support and box office ...

Teenage lesbians claim homophobic McDonald's cleaner pressured them into leaving

Teenage lesbians claim homophobic McDonald's cleaner pressured them into leaving - Two teenage lesbians were distraught after being told off by a McDonald's cleaner for a kissing on the cheek. Kristeen Ferenczi and her girlfriend left ...