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Adam Rippon Has Some Words for Mike Pence If He Runs Into the Vice President at the Olympics ... - Though he did not specify what kinds of “sexual behavior” he felt needed to be amended, Pence — whose opposition to gay rights has been heavily documented — has long been considered a threat to LGBTQ citizens by community leaders. Still, Alyssa insisted to USA Today that portions of Adam's ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Toronto's Church Street will always belong to LGBTQ people - Increasing social acceptance of the queer community has, counterintuitively, not been good for Church Street. In the past, gay people hung out together for protection – from homophobic thugs, and from the cops, who too often viewed the LGBTQ community as a perverse and disreputable subculture.

Indiana could make it even more difficult for kids to get a LGBT -inclusive sex education - The US state of Indiana could be set to make it even more difficult for kids to get access to LGBT -inclusive sex and relationships education. The Senate in the state has passed a bill which would mean instead of opt-out for kids whose parents do not want them to attend the human sexuality classes. .

Pro Wrestler Anthony Bowens On Coming Out Bisexual - Professional wrestler Anthony Bowens says in a new interview that he realized he was bisexual in high school. The 27-year-old Bowens covers this month's issue of LGBT glossy Attitude. Bowens, who grew up in New Jersey and often wrestlers under the name “Vigilante,” came out publicly in a 2016 ...

Alabama Teen Disciplined For Same-Sex Prom Invitation - An Alabama high school disciplined a female student after she asked another girl out to the prom during a talent show. Janizia Ross, a 17-year-old student at Alexandria High School, was given an in-school suspension for being “rebellious,” AL.com reported. Ross' mother, Jeanise Ross-Walton, told the ...

New LGBTQ archive at College of Charleston gets big boost - Since many courses at the college deal with issues of gender, identity, religion, discrimination, public policy and more, the LGBT archive project “fits very well with the curricular mission (of the school),” White added. “Harlan deserves 100 percent of the credit. It's been a passion project of his as long as ...

16-Year-Old LGBT Activist Publishing Anti-Bullying Teacher's Guide - Every teacher whose heart and mind we touch can in turn impact the lives of hundreds of students,” Jha says, adding that most books about LGBT students are written from an adult perspective. “Slowly but surely, we can make a positive change to our school culture so that the most vulnerable youth are ...

Trump Is Probably the 'Most Dangerous' President, Schumer Says to Rally 2018 Midterm Democrats - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the leadership of Trump while trying to rally support for the Democrats during a Saturday dinner in New York. "We are dealing with probably the most dangerous and worst man in the presidency we have ever had in the history of this ...

Univision, Netflix Team Up For Fiction Series 'Tijuana' About Violence Towards Journalists - The second season helped make Univision the favorite destination for Hispanic viewers in the United States on Sunday night in 2017, and recently debuted on Netflix internationally. "Tijuana is important because this is a crucial time to talk about what journalists face every day around the world, ...

Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? - Rather than suggesting black Americans are just as racist as white ones, these attitudes could be seen as “a direct by-product of the colonialism that removed black people from Africa in the first place,” argues Tyree Boyd-Pates, a Los Angeles-based professor and writer on African - American culture.

The Confederate flag resurged. The KKK burned a cross. Racial tensions flared in a Southern town. -  A man apparently irked with his black neighbor hung a noose in his yard, and Trogdon started hearing a disturbing new view from some white people: that slavery wasn't so bad for African - Americans . The 49-year-old bail bondsman knew racial division would be part of the picture when he moved back ...

Amid chaos in Washington, Tillerson strikes tone different from Trump - Less than an hour before Tillerson hosted a press conference with the foreign ministers of Mexico and Canada on Friday afternoon, President Trump declassified a four-page memo created by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee alleging abuse of surveillance authority by the Justice ...

US insults pushing Latin America into China's arms -  Trump's signature project is a wall on the border with Mexico , which he routinely justifies with a narrative that demonizes Mexican and Central American immigrants as people who bring crime and drugs to the United States. In Trump's world, there seem to be no good Latin American immigrants.

It's a matter of time before Trump and China embrace the TPP - The pact was finalised and signed by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico , New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam in ... US President Donald Trump announced the US pull-out from the TPP soon after taking office in January last year, saying Americans would lose jobs if it ...

Mexico would love to have 'dreamers.' Trump , not so much - To hear one of the most passionate arguments on behalf of young U.S. immigrant “dreamers,” look south of the border. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico , has become known as an antagonist of Trump , using combative and profane language to rail against the president's ...

Trump stays off Twitter to avoid killing State of Union buzz -  Trump gestures as delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress ... In return, Trump argued Democrats would have to support his three pillars – funding for a border wall with Mexico , limits on “chain migration” to ...

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