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Petition drive to repeal San Antonio LGBT non-discrimination ..

Petition drive to repeal San Antonio LGBT non-discrimination ..  - SAN ANTONIO, Texas — An effort to repeal San Antonio's LGBT -inclusive non-discrimination ordinance died Tuesday when opponents of the measure failed to  ...

Russian Ballet Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov Blasts Persecution of ...

Russian Ballet Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov Blasts Persecution of ...  - Baryshnikov In a statement to the No More Fear Foundation, a group that works to help LGBT people seeking refuge and asylum in the U.S., 65-year-old  ...

Parents who used donor eggs

Parents who used donor eggs  -  HIV -negative heterosexuals who take drugs that protect them from contracting the AIDS virus from their HIV -positive partners don't engage in more risky sexual  ...

Interview with Cathy Woolard: Atlanta remains 'ground zero' for HIV ...

Interview with Cathy Woolard: Atlanta remains 'ground zero' for HIV ...  - As for the qualifications needed to run the organization in a city she calls “ground zero for HIV infection in America,” Woolard wants someone who understands  ...

Washington Post publishes pro-Russia supplement

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Washington Post publishes pro-Russia supplement  - “Under the Kremlin's lead, LGBT rights are the focus of public attention and debate in Russia – albeit censored debate,” the Russia Beyond the Headlines article  ...

How to Approach the Issue of LGBT Rights in Africa

How to Approach the Issue of LGBT Rights in Africa  - The rights of the LGBT community are a very sensitive topic in Africa, and despite the fact that there has been a lot of repudiation of the draconian laws that apply  ...

Dutch diplomat found beaten and with 'LGBT' scrawled on mirror in ...

Dutch diplomat found beaten and with ' LGBT ' scrawled on mirror in ...  - The acronym LGBT was scrawled across a mirror in lipstick, according to Russian reports. He sustained minor injuries in the attack. The attack came a week after  ...

LAPD, human rights group work to prevent assaults on LGBT arrestees

LAPD, human rights group work to prevent assaults on LGBT arrestees  - Last year, the Los Angeles Police Department made headlines when it announced it was creating a housing unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown  ...

Democrat, longtime LGBT ally Cory Booker wins U.S. Senate ...

Democrat, longtime LGBT ally Cory Booker wins U.S. Senate ...  - With three-quarters of precincts reporting, Booker — a longtime LGBT ally — had almost 56 percent of the vote to Lonegan's 43 percent. The first reaction from  ...

You Can Play: Florida Panthers to host LGBT hockey night on ...

You Can Play: Florida Panthers to host LGBT hockey night on ...  - Patrick Burke, the NHL's director of player safety, says that if anyone had once told him he'd either run a gay hockey foundation or “had walked on Mars, I would  ...

Latin America Brings Up Its Dead, Seeking Truth to Help Settle the ...

Latin America Brings Up Its Dead, Seeking Truth to Help Settle the ...  - In country after country , Latin America is experiencing a wave of exhumations, reflecting not only the difficulty some political figures have finding serenity in the  ...

Latin America and Caribbean attract increasing share of global ...

Latin America and Caribbean attract increasing share of global ...  - The 26 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are accounting for a rising share of global clean energy investment as governments in  ...

Resource nationalism in Latin America threatens investment ...

Resource nationalism in Latin America threatens investment ...  - If countries in Latin America want to increase energy and resource development activities, they must offer fiscal and contractual terms and conditions that grant  ...

Latin lessons on investment

Latin lessons on investment  - “Total financing outside Latin America's largest country jumped to 45% in 2012 from 17% in 2011 as Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Uruguay  ...

Latin American regulatory perspectives

Latin American regulatory perspectives  - As a consequence of the control of local regulators over the activities of carriers entering into Latin American markets, countries where usually foreign reinsurers  ...

The debt deal's gift to Teach For America

The debt deal's gift to Teach For America  - Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who is chairman of the Senate's education committee and who is a big Teach For America supporter. So is the Obama  ..

Industry support means better education

Industry support means better education  - There's a revolution afoot in American education , and it has nothing to do with a new report from an academic think-tank or political talking points for the next  ...

America's Dubious Distinction: Second Highest in Child Poverty ...

America's Dubious Distinction: Second Highest in Child Poverty ...  - More than one in five of all U.S. children live in “official” poverty today and the rate is even higher for Black and Hispanic children and for children in families  ...

Extreme poverty on the rise for older women

Extreme poverty on the rise for older women  - The retirement picture for nearly 1 million older women in America whose income fell below extreme poverty levels last year -- $5,500 or less in annual income  ...

How We're Doing: How we came to define who is poor in America

How We're Doing: How we came to define who is poor in America  - At the time, the average American household spent one third of its income on food. ... What happens when we adjust the poverty statistics to account for this?

Poor rural youth in Haiti are rich in family ties, rooted in their own ...

Poor rural youth in Haiti are rich in family ties, rooted in their own ...  - "It's true that rural Haitian teens didn't directly suffer the major trauma of the 2012 earthquake, but they deal daily with the effects of poverty -- not enough food,  ...

Cosplaying While Gay, Black, or Female at New York Comic Con

Cosplaying While Gay , Black , or Female at New York Comic Con  - The New York Times OUT and Geeks Out Present: LGBT and Allies in Comics ... As the large majority of the room was made up of women, people of color, and  ...

The New Black: Film looks at marriage issue in Black community

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The New Black : Film looks at marriage issue in Black community  - " People were blaming Black folks in California, which is crazy because Black ... "I thought the focus would be on looking at white LGBT groups and what they  ...

Unsolved Black LGBT Murders: Where's the Outrage? (VIDEO)

Unsolved Black LGBT Murders: Where's the Outrage? (VIDEO)  -  Black lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) people are more than just statistics. How can we ignore the fact that, according to the National Coalition of  ...

Are Blacks Growing More Comfortable Identifying as LGBT?

Are Blacks Growing More Comfortable Identifying as LGBT ?  - The study also details socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of African - American LGBT individuals and African-American same-gender couples in the  ...