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Kenya Bans Lesbian Love Story 'Rafiki' - The Kenya Film Classification Board on Friday banned lesbian love story Rafiki, the nation's first feature film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Rafiki (friend in Swahili) revolves around two young women, each of whom is the daughter of rival politicians. As they fall in love, they must decide whether ...

Joy Reid Apologizes for Homophobic Blog Posts, Says She Doesn't Remember Writing Them - MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid said that she doesn't think she was the one who wrote homophobic blog posts attacking the LGBT community that were discovered under her name, but apologized for the controversy the posts caused. Reid apologized on Saturday during her show "AM Joy," saying she ...

Conservative challenger to Baker advances to GOP primary - The minister has expressed anti- LGBT sentiments and received notoriety for being sued by an East African advocacy group that accused him of waging a campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. He also co-authored a book espousing a theory that gay men heavily influenced Germany's Nazi party.

Fred Rosser Says Not Being Included In WWE's Recent Embracing Of The LGBTQ Community ... - So to see those guys represent the LGBT community meant the world to me. But I'll be honest with you man,” he continued. “When I got released, I was okay with it, but when I'm seeing them do that representation I was devastated, because I wasn't invited. I would've loved to have been invited just to see ...

How queer film collective thrives under the radar in Shanghai, and its soft power - Public awareness of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in China is higher than ever thanks to an abortive attempt this month by Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, to bar homosexual content. An outcry from internet users sympathetic to the LGBT cause forced a U-turn.

Gus Kenworthy Calls Adam Rippon 'The Media Star' - Gus Kenworthy has called fellow Olympian Adam Rippon his “favorite person to be around.” Kenworthy, who came out gay after taking home a silver medal in the 2014 Sochi Games, talked to the AP about the love and support he received at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. “I definitely felt the ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

Ohio County Refuses To Light Up Courthouse In Rainbow Colors For LGBT Pride - An Ohio county is refusing to allow the county courthouse to be lit with rainbow colors during an LGBT Pride festival. Newark, Ohio will host its first-ever LGBT Pride parade and festival in early June. Councilmen Jeremy Blake and Sean Fennell asked for the Licking County courthouse to be lit up for the ...

Christian Group Urges Parents to Pull Kids From School to Protest LGBT 'Day of Silence' - The American Family Association is instructing parents to keep their kids at home on Friday and participate in the "Day of Silence Walkout" in response to the LGBT National "Day of Silence." The Day of Silence, which is organized by the national pro- LGBT group GLSEN, is the annual student-led ... Android Chrome Windows Mobile friendly AppsCenter

America needs an economic revolution - As a result of the first American Revolution, America achieved political democracy. The goal of the second American Revolution should be to achieve economic democracy. America can no longer continue to be such an unequal society. Actually, America is growing more unequal by the day with growing ...

California not the model for America it thinks it is - But often overlooked are vast areas of underdevelopment, poverty and searing inequality , particularly in the interior. Overall, after a strong recovery from the recession, California's GDP growth is now about the national average, well below that of prime competitors like Texas, Washington state, Ohio and ...

Learning more about autism - According to the National Institute of Mental Health , autism spectrum disorder or ASD, is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behavior. Although autism can be diagnosed at any age, it is said to be a “ developmental disorder ” because symptoms generally appear in the first two years ...

Mental health worker asked vulnerable woman to perform sex act on herself - Manchester Crown Court heard that at the time of the offence in 2011, the woman had been sectioned in the secure mental health unit where Kelly was employed as a support worker. She told police she got on well with Kelly because 'he was nice to her and would make a point of sitting with her and ...