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Pride in the Street celebrates the LGBT community

Pride in the Street celebrates the LGBT community  - All About Pride: The streets were packed with eager partygoers laughing, dancing, and instagram-ing the night away. "It was a perfect night to ...

Graham Norton launches national selfie campaign celebrating LGBT rights

Graham Norton launches national selfie campaign celebrating LGBT rights  - The comedian and presenter is lending his face to the social media campaign launched today as part of this year’s annual Pride in London festival.

A new, open life for transgender people

A new, open life for transgender people  - Jessica McGuinness, left, a transgender woman, is auctioned off by Mahogany La PiranHa during a LGBT charity date event in Pittsburgh in February ...

Pride Is Pride, Whether It's Yours Or Mine!

Pride Is Pride, Whether It's Yours Or Mine!  - On Saturday I went to a Pride picnic in my town. I have some friends in the LGBT community and the annual celebration is for members of this ...

World Bank: Homophobia costs Indian economy 30.8 billion dollars

World Bank: Homophobia costs Indian economy 30.8 billion dollars  - Ms. Badgett found three major economic impacts of LGBT discrimination. LGBT individuals receive lower wages due to workplace and education ...

Brighton's 'rainbow crossing' removed from city street

Brighton's 'rainbow crossing' removed from city street  - The artwork, which organisers claimed to be the first in Europe, had been added to Madeira Drive to mark LGBT Pride Month. Brighton and Hove ...

ACLU supports amending Human Relations Act to include LGBT concerns

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ACLU supports amending Human Relations Act to include LGBT concerns  - But LGBT workers in the commonwealth can still be fired simply for who they are. It is past time to pass this bill and bring a greater level of fairness in ...

Atlantic City ramps up marketing to LGBT community

Atlantic City ramps up marketing to LGBT community  - In addition to the official designation of the LGBT friendly beach, Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian will also announce three LGBT events coming to ...

Obama Drafting Executive Order On LGBT Job Discrimination

Obama Drafting Executive Order On LGBT Job Discrimination  - President Barack Obama has directed his staff to draft an executive order that would ban workplace discrimination against LGBT employees of federal ...

Italian couple, one of who is transgender, remains married after court ruling

Italian couple, one of who is transgender, remains married after court ruling  - The media continues to lavish both praise and criticism on Italy's treatment of the LGBT community after it reported in TheDailyBeast.com that Italy's ...

American corporations celebrate Pride Month with LGBT advertising, promotions

American corporations celebrate Pride Month with LGBT advertising, promotions  - For years Corporate America has far outpaced lawmakers when it comes to providing protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) ...

America Can't Afford College That's Unaffordable

America Can't Afford College That's Unaffordable  - Today, America's graduation rates significantly lag behind those of other ... And as a result, students are turning away from higher education -- only ...

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Rising Income Inequality

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Rising Income Inequality  - Income inequality is growing in America , and it has much of the chattering class in an uproar. Between 1981 and 2011, the share of income (including ...

You Can Blame Student Debt for America's Inequality and Shrinking Middle Class

You Can Blame Student Debt for America's Inequality and Shrinking Middle Class  - There is a tendency among elite opinion makers to believe that debt accrued while gaining a college degree is "good debt" that isn't problematic ...

America's Dying Factories Are Widening Income Inequality

America's Dying Factories Are Widening Income Inequality  - In Reading and other American factory towns, manufacturing's decline is a key factor in the widening income gap between the rich and everyone else, ...

Major International Finance Organization Criticizes U.S. Minimum Wage

Major International Finance Organization Criticizes U.S. Minimum Wage  - In its annual review of the U.S. economy released on Monday, the International Monetary Fund criticized America for wages that are both historically ...

25 Million Would Benefit From Minimum Wage Raise

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25 Million Would Benefit From Minimum Wage Raise  - Oxfam America , known more for its work in alleviating poverty internationally, turned its attention to domestic poverty in the United States. For the ...

The truth someone needs to tell about the state of black America

The truth someone needs to tell about the state of black America  - But the reason I need to is that you're not going to hear anywhere else about the state of black unemployment and black poverty in American since ...

Trade booms between Latin America and China

Trade booms between Latin America and China  - China has also become a major exporter to Latin American countries , even though exports to the region only account for 5% of the total Chinese ...

Delinquent Teens More Likely to Die Violently as Adults: Study

Delinquent Teens More Likely to Die Violently as Adults: Study  - For males, the rate of violent death was nearly three times higher among ... Rates among delinquent Hispanic females and males were nine and five ...

Village Playwrights Celebrate Pride, 6/25

Village Playwrights Celebrate Pride, 6/25  - The compatibility of a conservative Afro - American man and a Jewish liberal lawyer is tested on a blind date. "Mistaken Identity" by Sharon E. Cooper.

As World Cup played, people in Brazilian slums live in grinding poverty

As World Cup played, people in Brazilian slums live in grinding poverty  - More than 100,000 residents of one the poorest slums in Latin America face a harsh reality of poverty : poor sewage ...

NEIU Board and President Disregards Discrimination Concerns of LGBT African American Student

NEIU Board and President Disregards Discrimination Concerns of LGBT African American Student  - Kelvin Johnson is an African American LGBT student attending Northeastern Illinois University. It is hard to focus when you are faced with a sign of a ...

Minority Gun Owners Face Balancing Act, Weighing Isolation and Stigma of Violence

Minority Gun Owners Face Balancing Act, Weighing Isolation and Stigma of Violence  - And he was one of very few African - Americans comfortable enough with the N.R.A. to be hawking wares here. Continue reading the main story ...

Hard, hard work': Georgia Republicans seek African American votes

Hard, hard work': Georgia Republicans seek African American votes  - The thrust of his job, he said, was to bring together Georgia's Republican and African American worlds, which he acknowledges rarely overlap.