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In pictures: Russia looms large over Georgia's LGBTQ community

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In pictures: Russia looms large over Georgia's LGBTQ community - Georgian society is very conservative and the Orthodox Church, as well as many politicians, still have strong connections to Russia,” said Natia Gvianishvili, a lesbian activist and member of the Women’s Initiatives Supportive Group, a self-described feminist organization founded in 2000 to fight for women’s rights. Russia has used prejudice against the LGBTQ community as a way to rally support among Georgians, claiming the country is at risk of becoming a “temple of decadence and “homosexuality” if it continues to seek closer ties with the EU, a path that includes enshrining protections for minority groups. “Russian leadership is manipulating Orthodox values to drive Georgia out of the West,” said Andrey Makarychev, a visiting professor at the Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies at the University of Tartu.

America's LGBT Community Is Arming Itself Like There's No Tomorrow

America's LGBT Community Is Arming Itself Like There's No Tomorrow - Lots of women are gun owners, and we've never been treated badly for being LGBTQ at a range − they're only concerned that we can shoot straight,” ...

Upstate NY principal accused of blocking LGBTQ couples from prom put on leave

Upstate NY principal accused of blocking LGBTQ couples from prom put on leave - The lawsuit details further alleged acts of discrimination by Boling-Barton against LGBTQ students at the school. According to The Buffalo News, the ...

Why business leaders make bad political leaders

Why business leaders make bad political leaders - Business owners are used to thinking that they are, in fact, above the law, at least when it comes to how their businesses are run. Wikimedia ...

Student Writes A 127-Page Defense Of Gay Marriage After Getting Homophobic Assignment

Student Writes A 127-Page Defense Of Gay Marriage After Getting Homophobic Assignment - The paper ends on a note that every LGBTQ person, every Christian, and every compassionate human should take to heart. "God created you, and he ...

We Can't Look Away From Chechnya

We Can't Look Away From Chechnya - They are even denying the very existence of LGBTQ people in the Russian republic, saying that if such people existed, Chechen families would have ...

23 Countries Legalise Gay Marriages, 43 Nations Ban Hate Crimes Yet Homophobic Violence ...

23 Countries Legalise Gay Marriages, 43 Nations Ban Hate Crimes Yet Homophobic Violence ... - Life for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer ( LGBTQ ) seems to have got easier in last one decade as now fewer countries ban same-sex ...

Seven striking statistics on the status of gay rights and homophobia across the globe

Seven striking statistics on the status of gay rights and homophobia across the globe - At the same time, persecution and stigmatization remain rampant in most countries, and equal rights for LGBTQ people are “still very far from reach,” ...

African American and African Children Should Be Blogging.

African American and African Children Should Be Blogging. - The inclusion of technology especially the explosion of wireless technologies provide African American and African children a ...

How Black Moms and Daughters Can Fight to Reduce HIV Rates

How Black Moms and Daughters Can Fight to Reduce HIV Rates - The statistics are well-known. African Americans bear the heaviest burden of HIV infection of all racial or ethnic groups in the United States, says the ...

Supreme Court won't review decision that found NC voting law discriminates against African ...

Supreme Court won't review decision that found NC voting law discriminates against African ... - The Supreme Court will not review a decision that found North Carolina's 2013 voting law discriminated against African American voters, the justices ...

The numbers behind racial disparities in marijuana arrests across Va.

The numbers behind racial disparities in marijuana arrests across Va. - It found that the racial disparity in marijuana arrest rates has increased over the years: In 2010, the arrest rate for blacks was 2.9 times the arrest rate ...

Without new wall, undocumented immigrants will use the same tactics to enter the U.S.

Without new wall, undocumented immigrants will use the same tactics to enter the U.S. - Though Trump is likely to keep pressing Congress, and Mexico , to pay for the wall, for now undocumented immigrants will continue sneaking into the ...

Anti-Yankee' Trump critic tops Mexico presidential polls

Anti-Yankee' Trump critic tops Mexico presidential polls - He is "stridently nationalistic," said Duncan Wood, director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington. "Quite anti-Yankee." During a March tour through U.S. cities, Lopez Obrador, the founder of Mexico's new leftist Morena Party (National Regeneration Party), made that clear when he said, "Trump is blaming migrants for problems in the U.S., and we are not going to permit this." At Washington's National Press Club, he added, "In the end it's neo-fascism."

Donald Trump 'to allocate $9 billion for global health services that refuse to provide abortions'

Donald Trump 'to allocate $9 billion for global health services that refuse to provide abortions' - The rule is also known as the Mexico City policy, named for the location of a 1984 United Nations conference where President Ronald Reagan ...

Lawmakers Pessimistic About Trump Border Wall Funding

Lawmakers Pessimistic About Trump Border Wall Funding - Republican lawmakers are not guaranteeing that President Donald Trump's U.S.- Mexico border wall plan will be funded, which calls the future of the ...