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Allegations against Alabama's Roy Moore dividing GOP women - Falvey, who runs an LGBT community center, said she was angered by the stories about Moore since he had fought to block gay marriage in the state.

The agony and joy of being gay in Africa - At an international conference on Black portraiture, imagery and depiction in Johannesburg, South Africa last November, I gave a presentation about the state of LGBT rights across the African continent. I told participants that I'd just come from New York, where, at the UN, the African bloc had ...

Transgender Awareness Week: “Hey, Stop Being Awkward Around Us” - We've only briefly heard and read about the problems that are faced by the third gender community. And it is success that they are trying to earn through this struggle. With Transgender Awareness Week being celebrated from 14 to 20 November, let's take a look at some transgenders, who are breaking ...

Anti- LGBT politician resigns after having sex with another man in his office - The biggest homophobes and the loudest anti- LGBT protesters are often the ones harbouring a secret desire to get it on with another member of the same sex. Whether or not this is universally the case (OK, so not necessarily), but it is definitely true in this example. Say hello to Republican State ...

HRC study finds murders of transgender people has increased - HRC said that there has been a "notable" increase in anti- LGBT rhetoric – one of the factors that can contribute to such violence – since the election of President Donald Trump, who despite his assurances during the campaign that he was a "friend" to the LGBT community, has rolled-back Obama-era ..

Businesses are ready to engage with LGBTQ community - The story of human and civil rights would not be complete without discussion of the ongoing struggle for LGBT rights. That is why the LGBT Institute was established at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights: to shine a steady spotlight on this struggle, recognize advances and create a public ...

Lawsuit Filed Against Police For Sex Stings Targeting Gay Men - The LGBT community often gets forgotten in efforts to increase trust with the police, but in the past two years, we are doing more than ever to make sure that is not the case in San Jose,” Garcia continued. “We created an LGBT advisory committee, established an LGBT liaison officer program and ...

Anti-Gay Groups Stand By Disgraced Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore - Despite multiple allegations that Roy Moore sexually harassed underage girls when he was an Alabama prosecutor, his anti- LGBT supporters still ...

Sister serving migrants on US- Mexico border, “We're restoring human dignity” - With threats still looming about the potential wall Trump will build on the Mexican border, this sister explains what she does on ...

12 biggest losers in a NAFTA pullout? States that voted Trump , says US Chamber -  The dozen American states that would feel the worst impact of NAFTA's cancellation all happened to vote for Trump , ...

Political strategist Steve Bannon implores Tucson crowd to support Trump - Steve Bannon, the political strategist who helped guide Donald Trump to the White House told a Tucson crowd that the president needs their support to ... corporations as the entrenched resistance the Trump administration has encountered trying to build a massive wall across the U.S.- Mexico border.

Great again, but not how Trump envisioned - No wall to speak of and certainly no payment by Mexico , despite that being a central theme of his campaign. The D.C. “swamp” is not drained but rather overflowing with the worst special interest creatures imaginable. A renegotiation of NAFTA is stalled at best. The plan of “cutting taxes for everyone” is ..

Trump's trade policies leaving US behind - First, if Trump thought his efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement were going nowhere fast before, they're likely to stall even more now. With TPP, Canada and Mexico gain greater access to growing markets throughout the Asian Pacific, as well as South America. That makes ...

Trump divisive, but impeachment not likely - But while Trump's questionable actions and policies might mostly be affecting American society by undermining national solidarity, his self-serving policies can also have serious repercussions on other countries, including Canada. Thanks to Trump's “Buy America” policies, both this country and Mexico  ...

Pro-trade Republicans nervous NAFTA talks could fail - Pro-trade Republicans in Congress are growing worried that  Trump may try to quit the NAFTA free trade deal ...

Trump's commercial policy could undermine trade with Latin America -  It has not been going very well until now and many of the proposals made by the US are really very radical, very difficult for Canada and Mexico to ...