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Brooklyn bar owner sues to convert business into gay, lesbian watering hole.

Brooklyn bar owner sues to convert business into gay, lesbian watering hole.  - The LGBT community does well because you don't have issues of fighting,” he said. “They're nice people, they're wonderful to deal with. It's easier.

Despite advances, poverty persists for Baltimore's LGBT residents

Despite advances, poverty persists for Baltimore's LGBT residents  -  LGBT rights advocates with whom the Blade has spoken indicate the ... A Williams Institute analysis of the 2000 Census notes LGBT people of color ...

Black LGBT seniors struggle with double discrimination

Black LGBT seniors struggle with double discrimination  - In San Francisco African American seniors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ( LGBT ) often face double jeopardy in ...

Freedom to Dissent' Pledge Attempts To Justify Anti-Gay Activism

Freedom to Dissent' Pledge Attempts To Justify Anti-Gay Activism  - A new effort under the banner of “Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent,” which seems to be driven by pro- LGBT conservatives, argues that ...

Equality Illinois guides same-sex couples in freedom to marry

Equality Illinois guides same-sex couples in freedom to marry  -  LGBT advocacy group Equality Illinois has created two informative pamphlets to help Illinois same-sex couples navigate the new ...

Sri Lanka categorically rules out marriage between same-sex couples

Sri Lanka categorically rules out marriage between same-sex couples  - Equal Ground Sri Lanka, a center for international human rights, has confirmed that “ LGBT individuals in the country are subjected to arbitrary arrest ...

Health Care Workers Must Out LGBT Ugandans, According to New Guidelines

Health Care Workers Must Out LGBT Ugandans, According to New Guidelines  - The recently revised draft guidelines for Ugandan health workers who may encounter LGBT people essentially requires those health care workers to ...

Mass. governor signs tougher LGBT supportive anti-bullying bill into law

Mass. governor signs tougher LGBT supportive anti-bullying bill into law  - Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to build on the state's 2010 anti-bullying law by strengthening protections for LGBT students and students with ...

Gay sex: Supreme Court to hear plea on Sec 377 in open court

Gay sex: Supreme Court to hear plea on Sec 377 in open court  - The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave one last opportunity to the LGBT community to convince it about the correctness of the Delhi high ...

Boston Has an Income Inequality Problem

Boston Has an Income Inequality Problem  - If the critics are right and Boston is America's bastion of socialism, we're pretty lousy communists. Bloomberg News released its list of the 50 cities with ...

Affirmative action is yesterday's solution to inequality

Affirmative action is yesterday's solution to inequality  - The Supreme Court ruling upholding Michigan’s voter-approved ban on race-based affirmative action effectively puts an end to what was always a controversial strategy.

Pregnancy complications may be more common in immigrants from certain regions

Pregnancy complications may be more common in immigrants from certain regions  - Pregnant immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and ... In some, but not all, of the six countries Latin Americans and Caribbean islanders ...

Pregnant women who immigrate to Canada from certain countries need more monitoring: Study

Pregnant women who immigrate to Canada from certain countries need more monitoring: Study  - Women who are pregnant and emigrate from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean islands require increased monitoring because ...

Uruguay to limit cannabis purchases to 10 grams a week

Uruguay to limit cannabis purchases to 10 grams a week  - In an attempt to thwart illegal resales, Uruguay is limiting licensed buyers of marijuana to 10 grams a week, as the South American country attempts to ...

Whiter Image Dental Key Employees Include African-American Women and Minorities

Whiter Image Dental Key Employees Include African - American Women and Minorities  - Whiter Image Dental is benefitting from diversity in the workplace and is comprised of a 45 percent minority labor force including two recently promoted ...

Protecting our Progress

Protecting our Progress - In 2008 and 2012, a coalition of progressive Americans – Black and White, brown and yellow, women and men, straight and gay, young and young at ...

Black America was Silent During Rwandan Genocide

Black America was Silent During Rwandan Genocide  - Yet there is one thing that we, in Black America , rarely discuss: our own relative ... that can only be described as embarrassment within Black America .

NMA Hosts Interactive Summit on African-American Health Issues

NMA Hosts Interactive Summit on African - American Health Issues  - NMA, the nation's largest organization of African - American physicians, and about 20 people from diverse organizations convened to address working ...

Wisconsin Suppression

Wisconsin Suppression  - It is a totally un-American and retrograde situation,” she added. ... And obtaining an ID is particularly burdensome for African - American seniors such as ...

When Cops Hide Behind Badge to Kill Blacks

When Cops Hide Behind Badge to Kill Blacks  - It was a period of rank optimism, when many young people, Black and White ... “It's a crisis for African - American people because we are not safe in this ...

Latinos Three Times More Likely To Die From Asthma Than Other Groups In US

Latinos Three Times More Likely To Die From Asthma Than Other Groups In US  - Nearly 1 in 2 Latinos in the U.S. live in counties that frequently violate ... “ People with asthma are especially sensitive to the pollutants released from ...

Spanish King: Cervantes Prize Winner Elena Poniatowska Gives "Voice To The Disadvantaged"

Spanish King: Cervantes Prize Winner Elena Poniatowska Gives "Voice To The Disadvantaged"  - work was on the losers in Latin America and the millions of poor people whose silence "is also a silence of centuries of neglect and marginalization.".

District approves Latino liaison

District approves Latino liaison  - I think the Latino community needs people sitting there like board members. It's a little offensive jus t sitting here, and you do not have any power, you ...

Why Immigration Reform Is Crucial For The LGBT Latino Community

Why Immigration Reform Is Crucial For The LGBT Latino Community  - According to Professor Rogério Meireles Pinto at Columbia University's School of Social Work, "many people came here from Latin America in order to ...

Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America's other big Internet problem

Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America's other big Internet problem  - But, just as important, emerging countries — especially in Latin America ... especially those that have to do with human capital, education , and skills, ...