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SAGE Metro Detroit Takes Trainings on Improving Care for LGBT Older Adults Outstate - The grant will fund a two-year project that seeks to reduce isolation and improve care to LGBT older adults in three Michigan regions by replicating a ...

Scottish Lib Dems pass motion to allow gender neutral uniform in schools - In September, research published by LGBT charity Stonewall Scotland found that 48 per cent of LGBT young people in Scotland have experienced ...

Indian HIV patient honored by LGBT rights group for helping others - In an effort to break through the discriminatory barriers facing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) Community, an Asia-Pacific-based ...

LGBT Groups Skeptical of Pentagon's Funding of Sex Reassignment Surgery - While major pro- LGBT advocacy groups were appreciative that a member of the community was connected with healthcare, they appeared to remain ...

How the Kevin Spacey sexual assault scandal has affected the LGBT community - The actor's timing in coming out as a gay man, right after allegations of his sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy, couldn't be any worse.

Indonesia boasts world's first Islamic boarding school for transgenders - Mario Prajna Pratama, the chairperson of an LGBT rights organisation in Yogyakarta says, “Making a place like this is a statement. It's like, if you do not ...

German gay film festival banned in Ankara -  LGBT groups have complained that their rights are being curtailed under the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and ...

Napa wildfires tested state's gay veterans affairs secretary - A gay married father, Imbasciani is one of at least four LGBT heads of a state agency. He has won praise from LGBT advocates for his handling of the ...

Public housing plays a huge role in racial segregation and inequality — but not in the way most ... - US public housing was first designed as an explicitly racist program segregating whites and blacks , with geographic and financial advantages given to ...

Catalyzed by Trump and Brexit , the EU's 23-army defense pact is unlikely to enhance security - The European Union has been aiming to strengthen ties between its countries' armies since 2007. This week, it finally took a concrete step towards ...

After earthquakes, rural Mexicans struggle to afford food - The Mexican peso hit an all-time low this year, in part because of trade threats from President Donald Trump . And now the earthquakes have made it ...

Trump hires lawyers to seize Americans' property along US- Mexico border -  Trump administration has hired 12 attorneys to help acquire land needed to build the US- Mexico border wall. The team of lawyers will work to ...

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien not buying Trump's NAFTA threats - Chretien says Canada, the United States and Mexico have all benefited from the trade agreement and he doesn't think it will be tossed into the ...

On transatlantic trade, Trump is all bluster, no bite — so far -  Trump also didn't know that BMW, which he had attacked for investing in Mexico , makes more cars at its factory in South Carolina than at its hometown ...

No NAFTA? No problem, says one Mexican city - Josué Vidales considers his business a NAFTA success story. ... [ Mexico shrugs off Trump's threats to scrap NAFTA].

US exit from NAFTA would not be devastating for Mexico : minister -  Mexico's economy minister said on Thursday he did not agree with statements ... he thought it is unlikely that U.S. President Donald Trump would trigger the existing deal's termination clause later this year.