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Fleur East puts on a VERY raunchy display in skimpy two-piece at Brighton Pride  - But X Factor star Fleur East surpassed herself when she sung at Brighton's annual Pride festival on Saturday evening. The 28 year-old singer chose a ...

Meryl Streep recalls LGBT music teachers who taught her acceptance  - During a press event to promote Florence Foster Jenkins, Meryl Streep recalled how her music education came from LGBT individuals. According to ...

Bear sparks Celebrity Big Brother homophobia row with Frankie Grande accusing him of ...  - Frankie Grande launched a scathing attack on Stephen Bear in Sunday night's instalment of Celebrity Big Brother , accusing him of being homophobic  ...

Orlando gunman took our last safe space  - For days after I couldn’t bring myself to read about the tragic events. Like many of you reading this, I have been in a gay club at last orders and when the florescent house lights blast on to send us, drunkenly blinking into the early morning on our merry way home. To imagine the horrifying scenes unfolding was, and is still, just too much to bear.

Obese people's brains age more rapidly, University of Cambridge research finds  - The brains of middle aged obese people displayed differences in white matter similar to those in leaner individuals 10 years older . White matter is the ...

We need to protect young people and the welfare of older people too  - Recently I chaired a cross-party inquiry with Barnardo's which looked into harmful sexual behaviour among children and what can be done to help ...

Suicidal victim of domestic abuse says "the children's centre saved my life"  - Over the next five days, 2BR will shine a spotlight on the importance of Lancashire's children's centres for the people that use them. If these proposals are approved, towns with as many as eight children's centres could soon only have one.

Brexit has slashed the number of UK billionaires  - The number of dollar billionaires in the UK has fallen to 106 — down from 130 since the same time last year, according to a report by wealth analysts at Wealth-X.  

Pictures show Lindsay Lohan and her playboy fight violently on a Mykonos beach  - It was supposed be another sun-kissed step forward for actress Lindsay Lohan – a special Mediterranean break to celebrate a milestone birthday and to start building a rare long-term relationship.But there is nothing romantic about these disturbing new pictures from the Greek island of Mykonos, where she stayed last month hoping, at last, to put a famously troubled past behind her.

Small business owners are sacrificing their physical and mental health - Small business owners are working thirteen hours a week more than the UK average, negatively impacting the health of nearly a third (28 percent) of them, according to a survey commissioned by business marketplace Bizdaq. According to the Small Business Wellbeing Report, owner /managers typically work an additional 13 hours per week  above the national UK average of 37 hours. Mental

4 Ways to Improve the Mental Health of Your Staff  - And the impact of mental health on the workplace is not just limited to ... The survey found that 38% of UK employees say their working environment is ...

Bisi Alimi Foundation will 'help social acceptance of gay people in Nigeria'  - In the beginning there was just anger. And the anger was exacerbated by the fear and frustration for not being able to conduct a normal life in Nigeria, a country where homosexuals are persecuted and incarcerated for up to 14 years for simply expressing their sexual orientation.

Mental illness affecting more employees than ever  -  Mental illness has become the number one threat to the health of the UK workforce, bosses at large and medium-sized British firms have claimed.

Health and Safety Professionals Aren't Immune to Mental Health Conditions, Suicide  - Janie Heath is the Dean of the UK College of Nursing. Jan Findlay is an assistant professor of psychiatric/ mental health nursing in the UK College of ...

Elderly Japanese emperor tells public may become hard to fully carry out duties  - Japanese Emperor Akihito, 82, in a rare video address to the public, said on Monday that he worried that it might become ...

Befriending service which acts as a lifeline for the lonely and elderly faces axe due to funding cuts  - Age UK has been running a befriending service since 2007, which sees volunteers make friends with lonely elderly people in Essex. Volunteer Emma ...

Sydney's Al-Faisal college headmaster says students are taught being homosexual is wrong  - The principal of an Islamic school in Sydney claims they have 'never' had a gay student because children are taught being homosexual is 'not ...

China crowned its first Mr Gay  - Meng Fanyu was voted the winner of Mr Gay China, the country's first franchise from the international Mr Gay World competition. The LGBT community ...

European LGBT rights activists fear setbacks without UK's 'voice for progress'  - European LGBT rights network ILGA-Europe has expressed sadness that “the UK will no long be a voice for progress in the European Union”.

Mostly hits, a few misses, for Team LGBTI during Olympics opening weekend  - Beach volleyball player Larissa França of Brazil dives for the balll during action in Rio on Sunday. - Shaun Botterill/Getty Images. A roundup of the 43 ...

Bolivia, Ecuador let transgender people choose their legal identity  -  LGBTI rights activists in Bolivia see the law as a groundbreaking sign of growing tolerance in Latin America. Forty people began the process to change ...

One LGBTI person killed every day in Brazil  - As the world's media focuses on Rio during the Olympic, stark information has been revealed about the LGBTI community in Brazil. Over 1,600 lesbian ...

LGBTI athletes are facing homophobic chants from crowds  -  LGBTI athletes at the Rio Olympics are being personally targeted with ... the Australia-Canada match, in which at least four players identify as LGBTI .

Tripping through Tbilisi: what I learned as a gay traveler in the capital of LGBTI -unfriendly Georgia  - It's legal to be gay in Georgia, but the country is so entrenched in Orthodox Christianity that LGBTI people are often victims of abuse and violence.

Tripping through Tbilisi: what I learned as a gay traveler in the capital of LGBTI -unfriendly Georgia  - It's legal to be gay in Georgia, but the country is so entrenched in Orthodox Christianity that LGBTI people are often victims of abuse and violence.

Anti-homophobia campaign launched in a bid to make Scottish football more inclusive  - Scott Cuthbertson, Development Manager of the Equality Network said, “We want to send the message loud and clear that LGBTI fans, players and ...

No out LGBTI athletes chosen to be flag bearer for Olympic Parade of Nations in Rio  - With a record number of out LGBTI athletes in the Rio Olympics, none have been selected as their nation's flag bearer. Caster Semenya carried South ...

Citi behind scholarship push for gay teenagers  - Early in 2016, the Citi Pride Network proposed raising funds to support a student identifying as LGBTI , in recognition of additional challenges faced ...

It's time for people to stop telling bisexuals to 'pick a team'  - It's so frustrating to have to correct the assumptions constantly with the world at large and even more so when it comes from someone within the LGBTI  ...

European Commission launches campaign to raise awareness and increase the social acceptance ...  - The Commission is putting forward a 'List of actions to advance LGBTI equality' for 2016 -2019 to combat LGBTI discrimination, which includes ...

Team LGBTI results from the Rio 2016 Olympics  - He's the first LGBTI athlete eliminated from competition at these Summer Games, which means he has that much more time to enjoy the Athletes ...

Ugandan police break up gay rights event  - Police stormed a LGBTI rights event in the suburbs of Kampala on Thursday night and arrested a dozen people for promoting homosexuality ...