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Glad to be gay: leading figures on 50 years of liberation - which offers rehearsed readings charting the LGBT experience, and the National Trust's programme exploring gender diversity through the history of ...

LGBT Hope in Taiwan ahead of landmark gay marriage ruling -  LGBT Hope in Taiwan ahead of landmark gay marriage ruling. A court ruling in Taiwan this week could make the island the first place in Asia to ...

People Are Loving This Animated Short Film About A LGBTQ Boy's Heart Chasing His Dream Guy - Nine out of ten LGBT youths have reported instances of bullying based on their orientation and identity within the past year." "We want to put out a ...

LGBT In China, Victims Of Brutal "Conversion Therapy" - From shock therapy treatment to nausea pills to fake marriages, Chinese gays, lesbian and transgender are targeted by clinics and family trying to turn ...

New law covers some infertility treatments for LGBT couples - It seems pretty simple. If, after trying hard for many months, you can't become pregnant, you are probably infertile. Or your partner is. But wait a minute.

At Victory Fund brunch, a search for relief from Trump fatigue - As evidence of her organization's success, Moodie-Mills said her organization has helped elect eight LGBT officials in Trump's first 100 days in office.

Are 'gay' and 'homosexual' the same? Here's what we found. - The term “gay,” on the other hand, became the preferred term used by pro- LGBT activists in the late 1960s. It has been used strategically to refer to ...

On Harvey Milk Day, Here's How to Honor the LGBT Visionary and Rabble-Rouser - Every year, California sets aside May 22 to celebrate a man who transformed the world for queer people everywhere. Harvey Milk was a visionary, ...

Black politician 'threatened with lynching' after calling for Donald Trump's impeachment - Donald Trump supporters reportedly threatened to “lynch” an African-American politician who called for the US President to be impeached. Democrat representative Al Green said he had been menaced with threatening phone calls after he took to the House floor to accuse Mr Trump of “obstruction of justice”. He reportedly played a number of voicemails that had been left by supporters of the Republican leader at a town hall meeting in Houston, but told the crowd he would not be deterred by the messages.

10 Thriving Black Towns You Didn't Learn About In History Class -  African American innovations were not touched upon enough by our history teachers. History class focused mainly on the civil rights movement when ...

Health fair aims to raise awareness about health care disparities for African - Americans - They decided to expand it this year to raise awareness about health care disparities among the African - American male population in Summit County.

Why Trump's protectionist bark may not hold much bite for emerging markets - The bank contrasted that with Trump's oft-repeated and controversial plan to build a "big, beautiful wall" to block out its Southern neighbour Mexico .

Trump budget will slash Medicaid, food stamps programs: reports - The budget also contains $1.6 billion in funding for Trump's wall along the U.S.- Mexico border as part of a larger $2.6 billion spending hike for border ...

The ' Trump effect' has slowed illegal US border crossings. But for how long? -  Trump has credited his tough stance on illegal immigrants for the sharp decline in apprehensions of migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border, tweeting in ...

50 Years Ago This Week: Vietnam and the Black Soldier - In the wake of Muhammad Ali's very public refusal to fight in Vietnam, TIME's cover story took an in-depth look at the often paradoxical situation facing the African-American population in relation to the War in Vietnam. The story doesn't escape without a few assumptions about race and gender issues in the U.S. that likely wouldn't fly today (for example, the suggestion that black men wanted to fight in Vietnam as a "corrective" to the "matriarchal dominance" in their society at home), and it's very easy to read it as taking a side — against protest — but it does a good job of presenting the many nuanced sides of a complicated issue.

300 unique New Orleans moments: The U.S.' oldest African - American neighborhood becomes part ... - The Faubourg Treme is the oldest African - American neighborhood in the United States, the birthplace of jazz and a cradle of the civil rights movement.