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Tasmania marks 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality - The LGBTI community in Tasmania has marked the 20th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality and called on the federal government ...

Homophobia in Greece's healthcare system - One of the people who was not surprised by this is Dr. Dimitra Giannou, who has documented institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in ...

NSW Government Announces $500000 For LGBTI Suicide Prevention - The funding will be provided to NSW LGBTI health organisation ACON over four years and will be used to train GPs on how to respond to the needs of ...

Safe Schools: organiser of petition for new program defends 'tolerance' goal - The petition, published by Stop Bullying Australia on Change.org on Tuesday, called on Malcolm Turnbull to deliver an anti-bullying program “that everyone can agree on”. Musicians Troye Sivan and Missy Higgins, comedian Joel Creasey and actor Guy Pearce were among the signatories. The petition, signed by nearly 3,300 people 16 hours after its launch at midnight on Monday, called for a program with “tolerance and mutual respect of LGBTI people at its core”. “Make no mistake of our request: we do not seek a program that seeks approval of the way certain members of our society live. We seek only mutual respect and tolerance.”

Number of UK students applying to study in Ireland plummets - Mr Bruton has also recently met with the UK education secretary Justine Greening, and his Northern Irish ministerial counterparts Peter Weir and ...

Brexit 'distraction' threatens future of UK nuclear industry, MPs warn - The future of the UK nuclear industry has been put at risk by the Government's failure to consider the “serious ramifications” of its Brexit strategy, MPs ...

Brexit : UK 'will not enter into briefing war' with EC - The UK will not enter into "a briefing war" with the European Commission over Brexit talks, Tory sources have said. It follows reports in a German ...

UK says PM May to lead Brexit talks, approaching them with 'goodwill' - Prime Minister Theresa May will lead Britain's Brexit talks and is approaching the negotiations with goodwill, her spokesman said on Tuesday, ...

Brave domestic violence victim shares daily selfies of battered face during recovery to inspire others - A woman took a selfie of her battered faced every day to help her get over a horrific attack by her ex. Caroline Way has now bravely shared the series ...

How Wales' political history has been shaped by poverty and class awakening - Charles Dickens had just written his landmark Tale of Two Cities, which can be read as a warning to the British aristocracy of failing to address the ...

Miss Uganda UK sensitizes students on HIV /AIDS - Students of Yeffe Secondary School at Namanve have been advised to remain focused on their studies and not to fall victims of HIV /AIDS, unwanted ...

Businessman Guy Hedger was 'shot in front of his husband by men in balaclavas who broke into ... - A BUSINESSMAN was shot dead in front of his husband after at least two men wearing balaclavas broke into their home to steal designer watches in a ...

Hard work and Theresa May - In the UK today, hard work is no guarantee against poverty . People in some of the most vital and demanding jobs have the lowest incomes - and they ...

Lunch-shaming in schools has no place in the battle against child poverty - climate around poverty . And there is an unsettling resemblance in the latest US episodes to the stigma experienced by poor children in the UK .

Schools Are Struggling To Provide Mental Health Support For Children Due To Funding Cuts, Say ... -  Financial pressures are the reason for this shortcoming, according to a joint inquiry into children and young people's mental health , published on ...

We are experiencing a work revolution – and it's making us mentally ill - Now is the time to invest in tackling the mental health problems we know this engenders ... Many Londoners are not just new to the city, but to Britain .

14 strangely powerful portraits of queer dudes in Providence shot days after Trump's election win ... - Why? Well, partly because they were captured in the aftermath of Trump’s election win in 2016… Here, Liam Campbell, editor of Elska, shares the story of the gay mag’s most diverse issue yet, in the wake of one of the biggest shocks in political history. ‘It’s our 11th edition but our first set in a US city. Yet rather than choose a more expected place like NYC or San Francisco, we chose Providence. We went for the capital of America’s smallest state because, well, it’s just absolutely gorgeous.

Troye Sivan, Guy Pearce and Missy Higgins push for Safe Schools replacement - A group of Australian celebrities including a pop star, Troye Sivan, has called for a new national anti-bullying program with a LGBTI focus to replace ...

Londoner attempts to get Ashers bakery to make gay marriage cake - The case, which was supported by UK -wide evangelical Christian pressure group The Christian Institute, became a cause célèbre for activists on both ...

Former RAF engineer paves the way for equality with bid to be Britain's first transgender MP - But the LGBT rights campaigner has told the Mirror she's fighting to win. ... Former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire is said to have been Britain's first trans ...

Hong Kong just got a major ruling on rights for same-sex spouses - A lawyer for Leung said the decision was a major one—an instance of “rare judicial recognition” of lesbian , gay , bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) ...

Massachusetts could ban voter petitions that trample LGBT rights - The US state of Massachusetts could outlaw voter petitions which jeopardise the rights of minorities. An amendment which would restrict petitions ...

Manchester United hailed by LGBT activists for new equality campaign - Soccer giants Manchester United have been praised by LGBT group Stonewall for launching an initiative entitled 'All Red All Equal.' The club ...

Chechen gay men recount days of torture - Anzor is a gay man from Chechnya, the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia where some 100 men suspected of being gay were detained ...

US judge refuses to hear adoption cases involving gay parents as 'a matter of conscience' - A judge in Kentucky has announced he will not preside over adoption cases involving gay parents, saying he does not believe gay adoption is ever in ...

Channel 4 has announced a series of shows to mark the 50th anniversary of gay decriminalisation - The first show, Not Guilty, takes a look at the 15,000 British men who still have a criminal record due to the anti- homosexual laws that were put in place ...

Isle Of Wight Teenager's “Anger” After MP's “Homophobic” Comments - We also as lib dems support LGBT rights on the island. We oppose Andrew Turner views and as a candidate I would support all peoples right to be ...

Gap Closes by 10 Points in a Week as Corbyn up, May Down - The Sunday poll showed the Labour party leader up by six points with a 31 percent support, with May's Tories dropping to 44 percent, ahead of the June 8 UK general elections. Other polls varied but showed a similar trend. Poll aggregator Opinium placed the Labour Party up by four points with a 30 percent support, while May's Conservative Party dropped to 44 percent. The shift has been attributed to Theresa May's inability to accept a public debate with Corbyn, with May refusing to appear in any one-on-one televised debates even though over 119,000 people signed a petition asking for a debate. Meanwhile, support for the Li

Church of England 'homophobic' says gay marriage vicar - The first Church of England vicar to marry a same-sex partner has accused the church of being "institutionally homophobic". He made the comments ...

Russian police round up LGBT activists demonstrating against persecution of gay men in Chechnya - The demonstration was held during a May Day march in St Petersburg, with a group of around 10 protesters arrested near the Anichkov Palace in the ...