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Born This Way, and the Problem of LGBT Erasure - The lyrics 'no matter gay, straight or bi/lesbian, transgendered life' are an explicit nod to the LGBT community, a nod that many songs don't necessarily ...

Copenhagen and Malmö looking to co-host LGBT kingpins - The Øresund Region could very well become a hotspot for the global LGBT community in 2021, attracting hundreds of thousands of people.

Rainbow Flag Stickers Have Sparked Controversy At A Catholic University - Rainbow stickers have been twice ripped down at an Australian university, amid debate over whether the LGBT pride flag should be welcome on a ...

Russian Interior Ministry to Look Into LGBT Persecution Reports in Chechnya - The Russian Interior Ministry will look into reports on the alleged persecution of LGBT men in the North Caucasus Chechen Republic, Kremlin ...

Jailed for using Grindr: homosexuality in Egypt - Legal expertise is available from LGBT groups. But the public stigma of the accusation often results in families making a knee-jerk decision to take the ...

LGBT Flag Designer Gilbert Baker Has Died - Born in 1951 in Kansas, Baker moved to San Francisco in '70s, just as the movement for LGBT liberation was bubbling. He was stationed there while ...

Twenty Percent Of Millennials Identify As LGBTQ - The third annual Accelerating Acceptance report from GLAAD also found increasing levels of young people who are more likely to identify as gender ...

President Trump has pushed LGBT community aside - I'm angry. I'm a lesbian, and since Donald Trump has taken over, there has been one insult after another. As part of the LGBT community I have been ...

LatAm countries focus on ways to guard against protectionist policies -  Latin American countries are emphasizing the need to integrate their economies and increase intra-regional trade and investment to counter a surge ...

Silicon Valley's Spooked by Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity - There's a tech-loving governor in Mexico who sees opportunity in the hassles the Trump administration might create for companies eager to hire ...

Mexico Ready to Play the Corn Card in Trade Talks - And even though President Trump appears to be pulling back from his vows to completely overhaul Nafta, Mexico has taken his threats to heart and ...

Trump is deporting more people than Obama, but just barely - President Trump claims he's kept his campaign promise to dramatically ... Mexico's consul general in Los Angeles told the Guardian that arrests and ...

Protesting Trump's immigration policy? You might be accidentally helping him -  Mexico's foreign minister said last month that under Trump there had been no rise in the number of deported Mexicans , and that numbers had in fact ...

Texans chip away at Donald Trump's Mexican wall - Building a “big beautiful wall” — paid for by Mexico — was the signature promise of Donald Trump’s victorious US presidential campaign. But as tomorrow’s revised deadline for contractors to put in their bids approaches, questions over funding and logistical obstacles multiply. As Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke admitted last week, the 3200km project would be “complex in some areas

Latino families worry about deportation despite American assimilation - Burke County Notebook - In February Hispanic and non- Hispanic people in our community began meeting at a local church to try to find answers to these questions. The times ...

We've Always Been the Designated Enemy': John Leguizamo Schools Us on Latino History - Then I learned that ten thousand Latin people participated in the American Revolution. And when I saw that I was like, 'Wait a minute. We were here ...