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LGBTQ Teens Experiencing High Levels of Stress, says National Survey - A survey of LGBTQ teenagers across the nation reveals in detail the persistent challenges many of them face going about their daily lives at home, ...

HRC, UCONN Survey Finds Anti- LGBTQ Bias Overwhelmingly Affects Health and Well-being of ... - HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey ever of more than 12,000 LGBTQ teenagers across the ...

Police Are Mislabeling Anti- LGBTQ and Other Crimes as Anti-Heterosexual - ProPublica found that many of the anti- LGBTQ crimes mismarked as anti-heterosexual were vandalism and involved the use of a common anti-gay ...

LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Face Danger at the United States-Mexico Border - They included pregnant women, children, and LGBTQ people, all fleeing from violence in Central America. They were met by the United States ...

Disney releases first full line of LGBTQ Pride merchandise - Over the past few months, Disney has been slowly introducing rainbow LGBTQ pride Mickey Mouse hats to their parks. They've now expanded that to ...

Inside Out LGBTQ Short Films - Celebrate Pride with a selection of short films from Inside Out Film Festival. Selection will include Passing, by Torontonian Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, and ...

Scott Dawson says Gov. Kay Ivey 'betrayed Alabama values' for giving state money to LGBTQ group - Kay Ivey on Tuesday for giving state tax money to a Huntsville-based LGBTQ non-profit organization. Speaking to reporters in Decatur, Dawson ...

Argentina mocks Russia's 'gay propaganda' law before World Cup 2018 - A new ad from a sports channel in Argentina mocks Russia's ban on gay “propaganda.” TyC Sports put together a message to Russian President ...

How Britain's colonial legacy still affects LGBT politics around the world - At the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, the British prime minister, Theresa May, urged Commonwealth nations to ...

Russia Tells UN There Are No Gays in Chechnya - An official at Russia's Justice Ministry has said at the United Nations that the rights of the LGBT community were not violated in Chechnya because ...

This LGBT flag has the power to stop any bullet - Each year, a targeted campaign is produced to highlight the many challenges faced by the LGBT community around the world. Amongst other tools ...

Italian Parliament deputy speaker meets LGBT delegation - Carfagna's meeting with the LGBT delegation will take place at the parliament building ahead of the annual International Day Against Homophobia, ...

Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival - The 27th edition of the festival that celebrates queer culture and history on film, features wide-ranging films that entertain, inspire and confront ...

LGBT PrideFest is Saturday at Snug Harbor Cultural Center - This year's LGBT Pride season started with a parade on the Midland Beach boardwalk, the site of the first Pride celebration in 2005. This year's ...

United Methodist activists unsatisfied with bishops' recommended plan to avert schism - United Methodist Church activists who sharply disagree about whether to ordain LGBT clergy or officiate same-sex marriages do agree on ...

Church must stop driving away gay people - The Church of England has appointed a new Bishop who says the institution must do more to reach out to LGBT Christians. It was announced this ...

Child Slavery Refuses to Disappear in Latin America - In Paraguay, the country in South America with the highest poverty rate and one of the 10 most unequal countries in the world, some 47,000 children ...

Intolerance toward gays has softened, but it persists - Though 66 percent of white Catholics and 65 percent of Hispanic Catholics support same-sex marriage, the institutions themselves remain behind the ...

I study biracial identity in America . Here's why Meghan Markle is a big deal. - My mother is white and my father is black , and as a social psychologist, I research mixed- race identity and perceptions of biracial people for a living.

Why would a white person visit Montogmery's slavery memorial? - One of the latest racial “incidents” that grabbed headlines occurred in Philadelphia recently, when two African - American men were arrested in a ...

Will ' Trump effect' impact US-based Mexican voters in upcoming elections? - Election reforms in Mexico that began in 2005 have now made voting accessible to Mexican nationals living in the United States through an ...

Trump's border wall ignores the realities of migration - Since the beginning of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has promised to build a wall along the U.S.- Mexico border. More recently, he ...

Trump auto demands in NAFTA talks not likely to shift more jobs to US -  Trump auto demands in NAFTA talks not likely to shift more jobs to U.S. ... “No one is likely to shut down an active factory in Mexico and build a new ...

Trump's top economic adviser doubts the US can seal a new major trade deal with Mexico and ... -  Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said he is not optimistic that negotiators can reach a deal on a new version of the North ...