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Vietnam Prolongs LGBT Discrimination

Vietnam Prolongs LGBT Discrimination  - As previously noted, Vietnam has seen a rapid change in societal attitudes toward LGBT issues over the last several years. It was only two years ago ...

Obama pressed to hold Uganda accountable for anti-LGBT law

Obama pressed to hold Uganda accountable for anti- LGBT law  - The nation's largest LGBT -rights organization urged President Barack Obama to take immediate and concrete steps to hold Uganda accountable for ...

LGBT film festival explores being gay, trans in a straight world

LGBT film festival explores being gay, trans in a straight world  - This is the busy season for local film festivals in Israel. The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival opened last weekend, the Cinema South ...

African Commission on Human Rights Passes LGBT Resolution

African Commission on Human Rights Passes LGBT Resolution  - An African Commission on human rights adopted a resolution pledging to fight for LGBT equality and oppose anti- LGBT laws on the continent.

Project One America Launches Story-Telling Campaign about LGBT Equality in the South

Project One America Launches Story-Telling Campaign about LGBT Equality in the South  - Study after study shows that simply knowing someone who is LGBT dramatically increases support for measures that protect LGBT people from ...

5 Transgender Activists Who Blazed A Trail For The LGBT Community

5 Transgender Activists Who Blazed A Trail For The LGBT Community  - Called the “conscience” of the LGBT community, Rivera was arrested countless times at demonstrations for political causes like Soul Force, the Irish ...

If he knows gay couples are coming, Colorado baker won't bake a cake, despite ...

If he knows gay couples are coming, Colorado baker won't bake a cake, despite ...  - The Colorado Civil Rights Commission upheld a ruling that says a baker in that state cannot refuse to bake wedding cakes for same-sex ...

It's LGBT History Month

It's LGBT History Month - June is “Gay and Lesbian” History Month, a time of year for open-minded leftists to celebrate gender-disorientation pathology. Now, the Associated ...

Time to talk about the T in LGBT

Time to talk about the T in LGBT  - By now you know that LGBT is the catch-all acronym for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. And since the modern LGBT civil-rights ...

All Talk, No Action

All Talk, No Action  - In an online video, Hillary Clinton said America is ready to eradicate the “cancer of inequality ” so we should stop talking and get to work. “I think people ...

Robert Reich: Income inequality is the civil rights struggle of our time

Robert Reich: Income inequality is the civil rights struggle of our time  - The current struggle of low-wage workers across America echoes the civil rights struggle of the ... His new movie " Inequality for All" is in Theaters.

5 ways massive inequality is paralyzing American society

5 ways massive inequality is paralyzing American society  - But the facts have to be told, to help explain the sickening sense that we're becoming a nation without a middle class, paralyzed by the inequality  ...

The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality

The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality  - Judging by the Forbes 400 list, the richest people in America have been getting richer very quickly. In 1982, the first year of the list, there were only 13 ...

Carbon-Income Inequality

Carbon-Income Inequality  - The agency can tell America's 3,000 or so fossil-fuel power units to install on-site ... If you want more inequality , this is an ideal way to ensure it.

Bridging America's 'digital divide,' National education organizations urge FCC to increase E-Rate ...

Bridging America's 'digital divide,' National education organizations urge FCC to increase E-Rate ...  - In fact, fewer than one in three of America's classrooms have Internet access, ... That is why 19 national education and library organizations from the ...

Concerned Women for America's Legislative Action Committee endorses Sheri Few

Concerned Women for America's Legislative Action Committee endorses Sheri Few  - Sheri Few, a Republican candidate for state superintendent of education , answers a question during a televised debate on South Carolina ETV, ...

This map explains why climate change is so unfair

This map explains why climate change is so unfair  -  Poverty makes these effects much worse. ... To put it in some perspective: the poorest five percent of Americans have higher per-capita incomes than ...

Why can't we just tell the truth?

Why can't we just tell the truth?  - Social Security was sold to the American people as a retirement fund. ... Poverty in America had been declining for decades when the "War on ...

New spouses celebrate in joint weddings on first day same-sex marriage is legal statewide

New spouses celebrate in joint weddings on first day same-sex marriage is legal statewide   - Carillo said many Latinos face the twin challenges of Catholicism ... But even though this was a day of celebration for LGBT people across the state, ...

Immigration Not Top Social Issue For Hispanics; Study Finds Education More Important Amongst ...

Immigration Not Top Social Issue For Hispanics; Study Finds Education More Important Amongst ...  - When you think of the Hispanic and Latino community in the United States, one of the first social issues that pops into mind is immigration reform.

Court throws out term 'mental retardation'

Court throws out term 'mental retardation'  - In 1989, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall pointedly began using “ Afro American ” to describe people of his own race. He opted for Afro American  ...

Expelling preschoolers a big problem

Expelling preschoolers a big problem  - While just 18% of preschoolers that year were black , 42% of the kids ... The plain truth is "there are some Americans who, in the aggregate, are ...

Study highlights gap in wealth, assets among racial groups

Study highlights gap in wealth, assets among racial groups  - A recent report by the Center for Global Policy Solutions concludes that African - Americans are “beyond broke,” with just $200 in median wealth ...

Immigration Not Top Social Issue For Hispanics; Study Finds Education More Important Amongst ...

Immigration Not Top Social Issue For Hispanics; Study Finds Education More Important Amongst ...  - When you think of the Hispanic and Latino community in the United States, one of the first social issues that pops into mind is immigration reform.

Hispanic Black Gay Coalition Awarded 2014 Pride Interfaith Award

Hispanic Black Gay Coalition Awarded 2014 Pride Interfaith Award  - The Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HBGC) has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Pride Interfaith Award. The award honors ...