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Trump Era Threats to LGBT Rights Must 'Wake People Up,' YouTube Star Todrick Hall Says (Video) - Prolific content maker, YouTube star and documentary subject Todrick Hall spins high-quality, independently financed creations for his fans — many of ...

Supporters of gay cleric urge Church in Wales to 'overcome fear' and appoint him Bishop - Supporters of a distinguished openly gay cleric are telling Welsh Bishops to “overcome their fear” and elect him as the new Bishop of Llandaff.

You're not confused if you're bisexual': Kristen Stewart talks about her sexuality in detail weeks ... - She came out as gay during an explosive episode of Saturday Night Live last month. Now Kristen Stewart has talked in detail about her sexuality and ...

Ex-NFL star Kordell Stewart wins $3 MILLION judgment against YouTube sensation ... - Ex-NFL quarterback Kordell Stewart has scored a $3 million victory against viral video star Andrew Caldwell who claimed the two had a gay  ...

Nicola Sturgeon cannot stop Brexit but she can make life very difficult for Theresa May - Nicola Sturgeon's threat of a second independence referendum is unlikely to prevent Brexit from happening for the simple reason that Theresa May ...

What is Article 50? A guide to what happens now - Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will trigger Article 50 by the end of this month - beginning formal negotiations on Brexit . Here's a guide.

Ditch hostile approach of ' Brexit zealots', Europhile Tories urge ministers - A leading Conservative pro-Europe group has accused the government of pursuing an unnecessarily hostile approach to Brexit , one which risks badly ...

47% of parents think Brexit will leave children worse off, report finds - Almost half of parents think Brexit will leave their children worse off as a “general sense of anxiousness” is felt among UK families, a new report has ...

Older people 'would vote No in second Scottish independence referendum' - Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale scored minus 15, while the poll results make grim reading for her UK counterpart Jeremy Corbyn, trailing with a ...

Grammar schools are pointless when millions of children are still living in poverty - More than 3.5 million children are living in poverty in the UK and studies show that one in five parents struggle to put food on the table, with every ...

Brides of poverty -stricken 1930s and 1940s Britain reveal their Hollywood glamour wedding portaits - Renee's heartwarming story shows the pride working-class girls had during the grinding poverty of the 30s and 40s, and their fierce determination for a ...

Broken America: Famed war photographer turns his camera on racism, poverty and violence in his ... - Famed war photographer Peter van Agtmael has used his camera lens to focus and highlight racism, poverty and violence in America.

British Asians challenge the stigma of mental illness - Dhindsa's attempts to find some kind of closure in the years since has transformed him into an evangelist for mental health awareness within Britain's  ...

Children wait for weeks on wards as mental health beds crisis deepens - CHILDREN with mental health conditions are being forced to wait on hospital wards for weeks because of a desperate shortage of specialist beds ...

Children as young as eight to learn mindfulness, breathing and relaxation techniques as part of ... - The move comes after it was revealed the UK has the second poorest mental health wellbeing among students in the world, according to a global ...

Male victims of domestic violence are being failed by the system - According to a 2010 study by Parity, a men's issues campaigning group, more than 40 per cent of victims of domestic violence are male. Yet startlingly ...

Colton Haynes said YES!!! - Actor Colton has said yes to his boyfriend Jeff Leatham in a fireworks studded proposal… and the picture is giving us some real feels.

Lesbians 'told they did not need cervical screening' - Cervical cancer charities say all women, no matter their orientation, should have regular cervical screening. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups say women regularly face barriers to accessing healthcare and can have poor experiences when they do. For example, in a survey of lesbian, bisexual and other women who have sex with women, 36% said a doctor or nurse had assumed they were heterosexual.

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West Australian LGBTI advocates welcome election results - Local advocates of the LGBTI community have welcomed Labor's victory in Saturday's state election, describing the result as “a triumph against bigotry ...

LGBT icon Ellen DeGeneres preaches tolerance at Kids Choice Awards amid Trump transexual ... - The message holds particular pertinence for DeGeneres, who paved the way for celebrities to come out as gay when, during an interview on the ...

People should be fighting UK immigration laws - No wonder such women seek asylum in the UK , a country which in some ways flies the gay flag with pride, allowing same-sex marriage and protecting ...

MPs warn that UK withdrawal from human rights treaty will be 'gift' to Russia - Senior MPs have warned that the UK's proposed withdrawal from the ... which cited extreme concern about the persecution of LGBT people in Russia.

Sacked gay professor accuses university of being 'the Taliban with a liberal face' - Ashley Tellis, an LGBT activist and associate professor, said St. Joseph's College of Arts and Sciences in Bangalore had acted like “the Taliban with a ...

LGBT campaign group calls for cross-party commitment to deliver on same-sex marriage ... - The campaigners, from the Love Equality coalition, the campaign for equal civil marriage in Northern Ireland, said that they believed there was now a clear majority of MLAs in the newly-elected Assembly in favour of equal marriage. They called for a cross-party commitment to pass equal marriage legislation early in the new Assembly mandate, saying this should be a key litmus test for whether any new Executive was willing to be a “government for all the people” of Northern Ireland.

Founder of ' gay conversion' therapy dies age 70 - A man who claimed to 'cure' gay people of 'unwanted same-sex attractions' with therapy has died age 70. Psychologist Joseph Nicolosi co-founded ...

Boston St. Patrick's parade to allow gay veterans to return - A group of gay veterans of the U.S. military can march in this year's Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade, parade organizers said on ...

Gay artists Francis Bacon and Bahman Mohasses to be exhibited in Tehran - The artists work have gone on display in the Iran capital at the museum of contemporary art after being unearthed from the cellar where the work was being stored. The Irish and Iranian pieces were bought by the museum before the 1979 revolution, and have remained there since. The pieces of art were due to be shipped to Berlin and Rome to be displayed for the first time outside of the country. However, plans for the exhibitions were cancelled after Iranian artists protested they eventual fate of the work.

American Bandstand kept secret that teenage stars were gay despite many of the young dancers ... - American Bandstand hid the fact that many of its teenage dancers were gay , former stars of the show claim. Arlene Sullivan, now 74, is among them.

SNP accused of watering down LGBTI schools motion at party conference - SENIOR SNP figures were accused of attempting to "water down" a call to make it a legal obligation to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ...

South Dakota becomes first US state to pass anti-LGBT legislation in 2017 - They now, for example, can discriminate against LGBTI youth in terms of their care and reject qualified prospective LGBTI adoptive or foster parents.

Colombia city seeks to promote diversity, LGBT acceptance - People were expelled from (the FARC) territories for many reasons: They were LGBTI or were a guerrilla fighter or because they are a woman who ...