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BJP's Illiberal Streak: Why spurning gays and lesbians will cost the ...

BJP's Illiberal Streak: Why spurning gays and lesbians will cost the ...  - The LGBT community may be numerically substantial – 25 million to 100 million– but it is hardly politically influential, much less a voting bloc.

Op-Ed: God Created Me Gay

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Op-Ed: God Created Me Gay  - Is it because you're a religious party, and religious and LGBT don't go together? I'm sure I'm not telling you something new about not being the only  ...

Top 10 Chicago LGBT stories of 2013

Top 10 Chicago LGBT stories of 2013  - Whether it's The Advocate—America's oldest gay news magazine—anointing Pope Francis as Person of the Year for his more lenient views on  ...

Nigeria and Uganda adopt harsh anti-LGBT laws in same week ...

Nigeria and Uganda adopt harsh anti- LGBT laws in same week ...  - Today, the Ugandan Parliament also adopted the 'Anti-homosexuality bill', amplifying the criminalisation of LGBT people. Both bills now await the  ...

Top 10 LGBT Wins for New York in 2013

Top 10 LGBT Wins for New York in 2013  - As we near the end of 2013, we're reflective of all that we've accomplished as a community this year. 2013 was a huge year for LGBT equality and  ...

America's War on Drugs is Perverting the Justice System in Places ...

America's War on Drugs is Perverting the Justice System in Places ...  - There has been an upward trend in drug trafficking sentences in nearly every Latin American country . A recent report from the Dejusticia Center for 

Private equity firms post record high investment in infrastructure in ...

Private equity firms post record high investment in infrastructure in ...  - "It is well recognized that many major Latin American countries face a deficit in the infrastructure necessary to support the region's growth," Patrice  ...

Latin American Growth Does Not Mean End To Informal Workers ...

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Latin American Growth Does Not Mean End To Informal Workers ...  -  Latin America is one of the fastest growing areas in the world. ... Unemployment in key countries , like Brazil and Mexico, keeps dropping too, but that  ...

Peruvian cuisine among top travel trends for 2014

Peruvian cuisine among top travel trends for 2014  - According to the publication's travel advice columnist and consumer news editor Wendy Perrin, 2014 will belong to South America , with countries like  ...

Young: News media flop on 'knockout game'

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Young: News media flop on 'knockout game'  - Given America's terrible history of anti- black racism , the desire to avoid promoting racial stereotypes of black (especially male) youths as violent and dangerous  ...

Family Structure Linked To High Blood Pressure In African-American ...

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Family Structure Linked To High Blood Pressure In African - American ...  - Children of African - American families who grow up in two-parent homes are less likely to have high blood pressure in their adulthoods, compared to those  ..

HPV strains affecting African-American women differ from vaccines

HPV strains affecting African - American women differ from vaccines  - Two subtypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) prevented by vaccines are half as likely to be found in African - American women as in white women with  ...

What Burgers Might Have To Do With African American Women's ...

What Burgers Might Have To Do With African American Women's ...  -  African American women whose menu item of choice when eating out is a burger are more likely to become obese, according to a new study. Researchers from  ...

Six of 10 Americans Eligible for Health Coverage May Qualify for Aid ...

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Six of 10 Americans Eligible for Health Coverage May Qualify for Aid ...  - Six out of 10 uninsured African - Americans who are eligible for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace may qualify for Medicaid, the Children's  ...

Exposing the education “reformers'” big lie: Here's how progressives ...

Exposing the education “reformers'” big lie: Here's how progressives ...  - In an education landscape dominated by No Child Left Behind and its spawn ... As with economic policy, America's education policy has largely been  ...

The mystery of America's 'virgin births'

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The mystery of America's 'virgin births'  - ONE in every 200 young American women says she became pregnant while still ... The findings raise intriguing questions about sexual education and  .

Latino Men Among Those More Likely To Suffer From Restless ...

Latino Men Among Those More Likely To Suffer From Restless ...  -  Latino men are one of the groups more likely to suffer from restless sleep and other chronic disorders than the population at large, a new study  ...

'Bachelor' Juan Pablo Galavis to Sizzle as the First Latino in the ...

'Bachelor' Juan Pablo Galavis to Sizzle as the First Latino in the ...  - In the wake of Britney Spears' recent comments about Latino men --re-enforcing the Latin-lover stereotype and bad-boy image-- her reaction wasn't  ...

A Win-Win for Job Creation

A Win-Win for Job Creation  - In 2013 the average rate of poverty went up to 36 percent in most all of America's major cities. There are more than 10 million Americans under the  ...

Poverty – and giving – are changing

Poverty – and giving – are changing  - We have some positive and revelatory news on poverty that can aid our ... The success in the war against world poverty is very much due to the ... in South America and investments by both philanthropic and for-profit groups.

Abject Poverty or Domestic Servitude

Abject Poverty or Domestic Servitude  - They are found throughout the world: in the G20 countries and the Gulf States, Latin America (where they account for 60% of internal and international  ...

Poverty reduction stops

Poverty reduction stops  - “Since 2002, poverty in Latin America has fallen 15.7 percentage points and extreme poverty 8.0 points, but recent figures show a slowdown,” said  ...

Democratic Campaigns Pay African American, Hispanic Staffers Less

Democratic Campaigns Pay African American , Hispanic Staffers Less  - Democratic federal-level campaigns are paying minority staffers significantly less than their white counterparts, according to a study from the New  ...

Latino Men Among Those More Likely To Suffer From Restless ...

Latino Men Among Those More Likely To Suffer From Restless ...   - Along with African-American men and men living in poverty , Hispanic men suffer more restless nights and get on average less than five hours of sleep.

Is gay misogyny a problem?

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Is gay misogyny a problem?  - At a recent LGBTQ black -tie dinner, an American friend, male, claimed that most gay men are misogynists. I instinctively objected to the idea, but my  ...