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Ambassador claims there is 'no discrimination against gays' - A Russian Ambassador has claimed there is no discrimination against LGBT people in his country. The Russian Ambassador to Ireland, Maxim ...

'Coming out is the best thing that any gay person will ever do' - Sir Ian McKellen has hailed the power and importance of gay people coming out and said that actors should not worry about it harming their career.

Highgate School's Plans For Gender Neutral Uniform Should Be Taken Up By All Schools ... - The statement was applauded by a spokesperson for LGBT charity ... Susie Green, CEO of Mermaids UK , a charity working to raise awareness about ...

Lebanon LGBT event cancelled after 'threats from religious figures' - The Proud Lebanon group had planned to host journalists, artists and doctors at a hotel in Beirut at an event to focus on discrimination against the ...

Brexit dishes up food safety dilemma for UK - The UK faces having to train a squad of globetrotting animal inspectors once it takes over one of the lesser-known parts of the EU bureaucracy after ...

May's Hard Brexit Majority - U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is packing her Conservative Party with an army of Euroskeptic candidates for next month’s election as she seeks reinforcements for her battle to deliver a hard Brexit. With the vote now just weeks away, Bloomberg surveyed the views of the Tory candidates standing in 60 of the most winnable seats for May’s party: 12 seats where a sitting Conservative lawmaker had stood down and the 48 constituencies the party most narrowly lost to a rival in 2015.

This election is about just one thing: Brexit - It is Brexit , of course. Music to some ears, a tinny wail to others. This is the Brexit Election. Nothing else matters. You can pretend it does, if you like.

Making sense of Brexit : foreigners in defence of foreigners' rights - The Brexit effect is found in the silent fissures in everyday activity, suspending and paralysing the capacity to plan and take action in the social world.

Nearly 50% of UK Have No Religion, but Is This Peak? Atheism in the UK … - Thus the non-religious have the lowest levels of degree-level education ... Indeed, these days, in the UK , you are deemed a little odd when you say ...

Emmanuel And Brigitte Macron's Age Gap: Why Is It Less Acceptable When Women Have ... - In fact, official statistics do show that generally women in the UK marry men older than themselves, in 2000 the average age gap was just over two ...

A million shades of grey: Why older workers should fill UK skills gap - I felt there were loads of barriers because of my age ,” the 63-year old educational support worker said of her time trying to get back into the workforce.

How business leaders should approach mental health in the workplace - According to mental health charity Mind, one in 6 adults experiences a mental ... Businesses across the UK lose an estimated £15.1bn due to lower ...

Mindfulness Can Unlock Happiness. Just Stop Thinking - The Mental Health Foundation say that anxiety and depression are the most common mental health disorders in the UK and it's becoming a growing ...

What's behind Life Healthcare's troubles in the UK - "It further continues Life Healthcare's expansion of its complementary services business adding diagnostics to mental health ; acute rehabilitation; renal ...

The UK's elderly care system must adopt digital practices or risk collapse - There is a constant battle in the UK between an ageing population and the need to provide a high quality level of elderly care. As people are living ...

Dementia is thought of as affecting older people ... I'm the proof it can strike anyone' - Bangor dental technician Glenn McCabe began to suffer the symptoms of the condition in his 40s. In this National Dementia Week, he tells Stephanie ...

Teacher resigns amid backlash against his anti- gay letter - A special education teacher has resigned amid backlash over an anti- gay letter he wrote to a school newspaper in which he quoted a Bible verse ...

American Gods features Muslim characters in explicit gay sex scene - The show’s third episode, which aired last night, introduces gay Muslim character Salim, played by Omid Abtahi. In the episode, Salim – who has just moved to New York City – strikes up a connection with a mysterious taxi driver played by Mousa Kraish, who is later revealed to be a mystical Jinn.                      

Coronation Street stars Rob Mallard and Daniel Brocklebank exclusively PRAISE the support from ... - Speaking about the LGBT Awards, Daniel added: "Here, you can get all the different areas of British entertainment together for one huge event.

Safe Schools booklet: LGBTI teens could seek gender-changing treatment without parents' consent - A BOOKLET connected to the controversial Safe Schools program discusses how teenagers may get gender-changing treatment without the ...

Foreigner warned to stay away from Singapore's Pink Dot gay rights event - ear with over 28,000 people gathering in Hong Lim Park to shine a pink torch lights into the air as a call for LGBTI rights in the island nation.

New Bangladeshi blog honours murdered activists - Xulhaz Mannan launched the country's first LGBTI magazine, Roopbaan. He was in his apartment with his friend and fellow activist Mahbub Rabbi ...

A video about LGBTI history is helping provide proper care - In a video broadcast on ACC TV and available on-demand on their website, Aged Care Channel discuss the long history of discrimination the LGBTI  ...

LGBTI human rights and the Council of Europe - Gay prides, freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. What does the European Court of Human Rights say? What does the Secretary General ...

Harry Styles opens up about his sexuality - Harry Styles has opened up about his sexuality. The singer has always stayed coy on the subject, but has long spoken out in support of LGBT rights.

Leaked Labour manifesto promises PrEP treatment and LGBTI safeguards in the UK - The UK's Labour Party has promised to trial PrEP and further safeguard ... The manifesto says: 'To tackle bullying of LGBT young people, Labour will ...

Health professionals are 'discriminating against terminally ill LGBT people' says Marie Curie -  LGBT people with terminal illnesses face discrimination from healthcare proffesionals, a major new study has found. A staggering 74% of terminal ...

Teacher resigns after telling students that gay people “deserve to die” - He said he felt the need to speak out against the newspaper because he “didn't want to displease God” and hoped to put gay people and those who ...

Wayne Bridge says Premier League is letting gay players down and calls on first star to come out - FORMER Chelsea ace Wayne Bridge says clubs are letting gay players down and has called on the first homosexual footballer to come out.

Did you see the bare bottom on Eurovision - A guy, who draped himself in an Australian flag guy managed to sneak up on stage during the 2017 Eurovision and bare his ass to around 200 million ...

It's still illegal to be gay in 72 countries, new human rights report finds - The number of countries banning same-sex relationships has declined over the last decade, a new human rights report has found, but attacks against ...