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10 Progressive Muslim Politicians Who Affirm LGBTQ Rights - Critics of Islam are often concerned about the treatment of LGBTQ Muslims, though often it is in an effort to criticize Islam rather than to help LGBTQ ...

Pride Parade in Russian-American Neighborhood Fights Homophobia - The New York Times report highlights an ongoing roundup of gay men in the Republic of Chechnya, a “federal subject” of Russia, and activists point to ...

Transgender People Need State Protection Under Law, Say LGBT Groups -  LGBT rights organizations are calling for state lawmakers to include protections for transgender people in civil rights laws. Equality Michigan and ...

Adam Silver shows pro- LGBT efforts to be disingenuous after returning All-Star Game to North ... -  The league announced Wednesday the 2019 All-Star Game will be hosted in Charlotte, despite the fact that LGBT people in North Carolina still face ...

2 Regional UMC Boards Still Refuse to Follow Church Policy on LGBT Clergy Candidates - At least two regional bodies of the United Methodist Church have reaffirmed their refusal to enforce the Mainline Protestant denomination's prohibition ...

From the death penalty to gay marriage: How LGBT equality spread across the world - Such unions are, however, still illegal in most parts of Africa and in the Middle East, where homosexuality is in some cases punishable by the death ...

Survey Results Can Help Protect Trans Community, LGBT Rights Organizations Say - The transgender community has support in the form of data to convince lawmakers in the state that discrimination based on gender identity exists.

GLAAD report says film studios are still behind in racial diversity, LGBT -inclusion - From the LGBT characters of the last year, 48 were white (69%), nine were Black/African American (13%), four were Asian/Pacific Islander (6%) and ...

Confronting racism in LGBT community - In interviews this week, the Washington Blade asked four prominent black LGBT leaders who head local and national LGBT organizations to talk about ...

Black Ministry Students At Duke Say They Face Unequal Treatment And Racism -  African - American students say they matriculated to Duke Divinity School ... The racial animus and suspicions of unequal treatment have led to ...

A Proposed New Tax, Mainly On Latinos, To Pay For Trump's Border Wall - One of Donald Trump's boldest, most ambitious proposals on the campaign trail was to build a wall along the southern border and get Mexico to pay ...

Trump's budget proposal would likely lead to more immigration from Central America, not less - At first glance, US president Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal ... a top source of undocumented border crossers in recent years, and to Mexico , ...

American Guns Drive the Migrant Crisis That Trump Wants to Fix With a Wall - American Guns Drive the Migrant Crisis That Trump Wants to Fix With a Wall ... Jose Luis Hernandez poses for a portrait in Mexico City in 2014.

Renegotiating NAFTA could have a big impact on the Texas economy - While President Trump renegotiates NAFTA between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, there is no place in the country that will be impacted more than ...

Carrier factory Donald Trump 'saved' will lay off hundreds of workers before Christmas - Mr Trump became associated with the company during the election campaign, when he criticised it for planning to send jobs to Monterrey, Mexico , ...

Most Texans along the border don't want Trump's wall, and many doubt it will be built - The Star-Telegram recently visited a 325-mile stretch of the Lone Star State's boundary with Mexico to gauge attitudes toward the proposed wall.