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Why Janet Jackson Is a Deserving Gay Icon

Why Janet Jackson Is a Deserving Gay Icon  - And as a gay icon, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone with her ... That's when she made the video for “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”, and from ...

What's It Like Living LGBT in Mississippi?

What's It Like Living LGBT in Mississippi?  - What's it like as an LGBT family in the state of Mississippi?" The Human Rights Campaign posed this question to us at a recent board meeting in ...

Transgender Pride Flag Designer Applauds Smithsonian LGBT Artifacts Collection

Transgender Pride Flag Designer Applauds Smithsonian LGBT Artifacts Collection  - Earlier this month, the Smithsonian Institute announced it had introduced a number of LGBT artifacts into its collection, including scripts and props from ...

LGBT Ad in Kazakhstan Creates Controversy

LGBT Ad in Kazakhstan Creates Controversy  - Similarly, in another bordering country, the Kyrgyzstan Parliament's human rights committee recently approved an anti- LGBT bill that would criminalize ...

Longest Running Soap Opera Shows LGBT Support

Longest Running Soap Opera Shows LGBT Support  - Members of the longest running soap opera, Coronation Street, a British soap opera about the working class residents of the self titled ...

Michigan Education Groups Call For LGBT Rights

Michigan Education Groups Call For LGBT Rights  - WDET reports that many Michigan colleges, universities and schools have officially endorsed the passing of protections for LGBT people in the state.

Sexy New 'Survivor' Cast Includes Gay Couple

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Sexy New 'Survivor' Cast Includes Gay Couple  - CBS unveiled the 18 new cast members for “Survivor: San Juan del Sur – Blood vs. Water” on Wednesday. In addition to former baseball player John ...

Jamaican police propose LGBT shelter, raid gully again

Jamaican police propose LGBT shelter, raid gully again  - Jamaican police have again raided the gully where dozens of homeless LGBT youth have taken refuge. Police have often raided the storm water ...

LGBT resource center gears up for new students

LGBT resource center gears up for new students  - Colette Seguin Beighley, LGBT resource center director, said the events are designed to, “draw people to the center and to welcome students.”.

Michelle Nunn's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Michelle Nunn's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'  - Despite the extraordinary gains made in recent years to stamp out the stigma attached to being LGBT , life for many gay Southerners (especially those ...

Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America

Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America  - Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America ... are challenges facing development and the fight against poverty in Latin America .

Education Is the Avenue to Prosperity in America

Education Is the Avenue to Prosperity in America  -  America's most affluent have made their fortunes in different ways, but one thing is clear: Education beyond high school is the common link among ...

American Jihadists Went to the Same High School in Minnesota

American Jihadists Went to the Same High School in Minnesota  -  American Jihadists Went to the Same High School in Minnesota ... is that the education system did not help arm them with tools to resist such insanity ...

American education: separate, unequal

American education : separate, unequal  - Jonathan Kozol was the first to draw attention to America's educational apartheid system. He wrote prolifically on the subject, pointing out that many ...

If You're White & American, Your Friends Probably Are Too — And That's Limiting You

If You're White & American , Your Friends Probably Are Too — And That's Limiting You  - According to Jones' survey, the average American is almost exclusively ... In contrast, only 18 percent of African Americans said that race was being ...

Sorry, Race Baiters; White America is simply Not Buying it Anymore. We've Spent our Guilt and ...

Sorry, Race Baiters; White America is simply Not Buying it Anymore. We've Spent our Guilt and ...  - I had a few Hispanic, Native American , and black friends growing up, although I didn't think of them that way. Mario Hernandez was simply my friend, ...

African-Americans Think Racial Divide Worsened Under Obama Administration –Pew Research

African - Americans Think Racial Divide Worsened Under Obama Administration –Pew Research  -  African - Americans think the racial divide between black and whites in the U.S. has deepened since President Barack Obama began his term, based ...

Race to the bottom in in Ferguson

Race to the bottom in in Ferguson  -  African American and Latino people are finding disappearing job ... in St. Louis county, where communities continue to split along racial lines that ...

Accessible Art: Latin America's Street Mural Cities

Accessible Art: Latin America's Street Mural Cities  - The street art spirit continues today in Central and South America , where ... Ataco's native population is of pre-Columbian origin, founded by Yaqui ...

LGBT groups respond to Ferguson

LGBT groups respond to Ferguson  - The shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white ... "It is obvious that the justice system is not set up to protect people that look ...

Inequality is stagnating in Latin America: should we do nothing?

Inequality is stagnating in Latin America: should we do nothing?  - After years of narrowing, the inequality trend in Latin America is slowing ... This is a “race between education and technology,” rather than a race to ...

Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America

Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America  - Brazil to Monitor Improvement of Water Quality in Latin America ... are challenges facing development and the fight against poverty in Latin America.

How Asia has outpaced Latin America in education reform

How Asia has outpaced Latin America in education reform  - While Asia may have its detractors when it comes to issues like human rights and democratic freedoms, one area where it excels is education .

Poverty In Latin America And Caribbean Reduced By Half: Study

Poverty In Latin America And Caribbean Reduced By Half: Study  - Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean has been reduced by almost ... people have experienced major improvements in health, education and ...

Chilean sailor makes history after announcing he is gay

Chilean sailor makes history after announcing he is gay  - Like other parts of Latin America , Chile remains a conservative society, especially towards ... Mauricio Ruiz said homosexuals had "no reason to hide".