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Hate crimes in Canada surge 47%, fueled by attacks on Jewish, Muslim and black populations - Reported hate crimes in Canada skyrocketed 47 percent last year, the highest number since comparable data first become available in ...

G20 shows steady rise of Chinese clout and fraying US ties in Latin America - Increasingly, Bernes told CBC, countries may be forced to choose. ... In 2015, President Xi Jinping toured Latin America , showering money — and ...

China's Xi in Panama on mission to bolster clout in Latin America - Xi and Varela signed a score of infrastructure, tourism and development cooperation agreements as Panama became the first Latin American country  ...

Tumblr's nudity ban removes one of the last major refuges for pornography on social media - Photos, videos and GIFs of genitalia and female nipples, as well as any visual ... “What a lousy decision,” the writer Roxane Gay posted on Twitter.

This is why LGBT couples in Brazil are in a hurry to get married - After 15 years together, social networks manager Marcelo Serrano and designer Wellington Pereti decided to get married immediately instead of ...

LGBT Site Writer Calls Ariana Grande's New Video 'Anti-Queer,' Removes Byline After 'Death Threats' - The LGBT news website INTO has removed the byline for an opinion piece accusing Ariana Grande's new music video “thank u, next” of being ...

50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018 - 2018 was a bang-up year for queer books. Here are 50 of this year's best, from a range of genres and on a range of topics: ...

More than 100000 demand inquiry into hate crime in UK schools - More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling on British Prime Minister Theresa May to launch an inquiry into rising hate crime and racist ...

Vancouver's Cinematheque and Out in Schools empower LGBT youth with Reaching Out video ... -  LGBT issues and education have often been the flashpoint for debate in B.C., and on the same evening that a Canadian professor with controversial ...

LGBT Center provides support for those who choose to not go home during holidays - Jeremy Sierra, a graduate assistant at the LGBT Center, expressed that it can be hard for students, especially those who have come out before coming ...

A city council changed ' LGBT ' to 'LGB&T' in a move called 'ahead of the curve' - A report released by the council's Adult Social Care and Services Scrutiny Panel said that “ LGBT ” was originally used because it was “arguably the ...

How Indonesia's fight against HIV and AIDS is undermined by LGBT 'panic' - Since 2016, officials in the Muslim-majority nation have wielded the four-letter “ LGBT ” as an epithet and warning as anti-gay persecution amped up.