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How To Tackle Loneliness If You're LGBTQIA+ - That's a good place to conclude: LGBT History Month, which we're nearing the end of now. We may be afforded moments, anniversaries and big legal 'wins' but the story on the ground for so many LGBTQIA+ people often involves isolation and the anxieties which come with that. As we fight the battle to ...

LGBT People in Bermuda Need Support, Not Abandonment - the public has used the vulnerability of LGBTIQ individuals to pursue their own homophobic What do LGBTIQ Bermudians need right now? That is a question not being asked of a community whose country just became the first place in the world to enact and then revoke marriage equality. On February 8 ...

North Beach highlights its LGBT history - For several months in 1984 Sean Martinfield served as the master of ceremonies at the famed Finocchio's female impersonators cabaret in North Beach. He would introduce his fellow cabaret acts, help the performers with their costume changes, and oversee the lighting effects. Martinfield, 69, a native ...

US anti- LGBT groups 'listed as churches to hide finances' - A pair of anti- LGBT groups in America are reportedly posing as churches to hide their financial details. Pink News claims Focus on the Family and the Liberty Counsel, two of the most prominent anti-gay groups in the country, have both done this. It is thought the campaign groups should be known to the ...

Gay country singer Chase Sansing embraces " LGBT country style" with Pride themed song - When he came out a few years ago, country singer Chase Sansing found a renewed sense of purpose as it regards his art. "After coming out, I felt like I could finally sing the songs I really wanted to sing," he said. "I grew up struggling with balancing being a country singer and also being gay because I ...

Artists stand for LGBT rights - Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull, who previously toured together in years past, teamed up again for Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull Live! What was noticeably different compared to shows past was their prominent inclusion of all things LGBT during their performance at Newark's Prudential Center. Despite ...

At Pyeongchang Olympics, Canada's Pride House provides a place to belong - It makes me more courageous and feel more proud of myself, because macho people said LGBT people are odd and weird and there's something wrong with them and they are strange. But now we can find a good LGBT actor or actress or politician, but in athlete area it's really hard to find LGBT person.

Major study finds anti-depressants do work - Depression and anxiety are high in the LGBTQ community as 22 percent gay and bisexual men are currently experiencing moderate to severe levels of mixed depression and anxiety compared to seven percent of men in general. Four in five (79 percent) lesbian and bisexual women say they have had a ...

What Trump can do to prepare for the inevitable — a primary challenger - For all the talk about how much TV he watches, Trump also spends a lot of time on the phone with friends. Their message to him: Stick to the “economy and prosperity” message. Don't mess it up with wars—either trade wars with China, Canada or Mexico , or a shooting war with North Korea. This is all ...

Real Time': Vicente Fox Says School Shootings Are a Byproduct of Racism - Fox, who served as president of Mexico from 2000-2006, has become an unlikely social media celebrity in the era of Trump thanks to his combative, often profane responses to the POTUS' repeated demand that Mexico pay for a wall along the U.S./ Mexico border. “You can use my words: We'll never pay ...

Federal Government Begins To Replace Old Border Wall In California - The federal government began replacing sections of the old border wall in southern California Wednesday. The construction is taking place in Calexico, Calif., on the border of Mexico and is the first wall contract granted under  Trump , who campaigned on building a new wall on the U.S. ...

Iran says nuclear deal is 'worst ever' — for Iran. And it's Trump's fault - He has already abandoned the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade deal. He wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, a 24-year-old trade pact with Canada and Mexico . In London, Araghchi contested all three of Trump's objections to the deal, ...

Why Trump Isn't Taking Democrats' Offer For A Wall -  Trump has a choice. Democrats in Congress have offered to provide billions of dollars for one of his signature campaign proposals: a wall (or something akin to it) along the U.S.- Mexico border. But in exchange, they want a provision that would grant protection from deportation and create a ...

Trump inspired 2017′s global politics of hate, says Amnesty International - The report, titled “The State of the World's Human Rights”, singles out Trump for a range of reasons, from his so-called Muslim travel ban to the push for a border wall with Mexico , and the “global gag rule” stripping funding from organizations operating overseas that have anything to do with abortion. Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Trump's offshore drilling proposal has a cost besides potential oil spills - A new analysis Thursday says that the federal government — and therefore U.S. taxpayers — isn't getting its money's worth from oil and gas companies pumping publicly owned fossil fuels from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico . By law, the government is supposed to get “fair market value” for leasing ...

As Trump trashes NAFTA, Mexico turns to Brazilian corn - They followed visits by Mexican government officials and grains buyers to Brazil and Argentina to explore alternative supply options in the months after U.S. President Donald Trump took office and threatened to tear up the trade pact. Mexico has long been the top importer of U.S. corn, and is the second ...