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Frisco Rep. Pat Fallon jokes about LGBTQ community and Rep. Mary Gonzalez's sexuality - Gonzalez, vice chairwoman of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, became Texas' first openly LGBT lawmaker when she was elected to the ...

Suicides rise as LGBTQ groups are bullied - The Trevor Project reports that LGBT youths who come from highly rejecting families are 8.4 percent more likely to have attempted suicide than LGBT  ...

Labor senators want schools' 'ethos' preserved in LGBT discrimination law - Labor has signalled that fixing the law to prevent discrimination against LGBT teachers may be accompanied by changes to allow religious schools to ...

Ugandan lesbian activist speaks about troubled times and her faith - Ugandan LGBT activists have been on edge this year. Lawmakers have discussed bringing back the stringent version of an anti-homosexuality bill, ...

Kimye face backlash for visiting anti- LGBT Ugandan president - Kanye West and Kim Kardashian received backlash following a visit with Uganda's anti- LGBT president, Yoweri Museveni.

UninstallGojek and the high cost of supporting LGBT rights in Indonesia - Lately, it feels like we're teetering dangerously close to reliving the worst of the LGBT moral panic that swept Indonesia in 2016. Many people are ...

Head of anti-homophobia group assaulted in Paris - The outpouring of support came from many in the LGBT community and beyond. The former deputy mayor of Paris, Bruno Julliard, tweeted that the ...

NJ First Lady Tammy Murphy breaks her silence - The Governor signed three new bills this summer to expand the rights and protections for New Jersey's LGBT community. Can you touch upon this?

Black students, white teachers: How this affects Seattle teens - In health class, whenever our teacher showed us videos of kids that do drugs in high school, most of the kids were African American or Latino," ...

Thousands Lead Protest of Alleged Misuse of State Funds - According to the World Bank, almost 60 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line and 24 percent are below the extreme poverty  .

Religious hate crime surges by 40% in England and Wales - Statistics detailed in the Home Office's annual report revealed that 52% of religious hate crimes targeted Muslims. They also showed that the number ...

Latinos are more at risk for Alzheimer's, and FSU researchers want to know why - It's a million-dollar question: Why do people with Latino backgrounds have a 50 percent greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than ...

Paramedics undertreat complaints of pain from black, Asian patients, says study - paramedics and ambulance services treat people for pain-related emergencies shows that complaints of pain from black, Asian and Latino people  ...

Trump rips Sen. Elizabeth Warren over DNA test showing a small trace of Native American lineage - Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America . Sovereign tribal nations set their ...

Facebook takes down ads mentioning African - Americans and Hispanics, calling them political -  Now complaints are piling up that Facebook is miscategorizing ads as political ... "To explicitly associate African - American or any type of racial term or ...

The Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate - They'd all agitated for black equality in different ways, and became expats after experiencing the inescapability of American racism . Robeson, who ...

BBC to create shows with more LGBT characters to 'increase diversity' - In its latest Equality Information Report, the BBC spells out its plan to have eight per cent of all on-screen portrayals be LGBT characters, all in the ...