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Businesses are eager to cater to the LGBT community

Businesses are eager to cater to the LGBT community  -  LGBT households spend 48 percent more on wine than non- LGBT households, followed by 43 percent more on computer and electronic products, ...

Gay love story told in touching new photo series

Gay love story told in touching new photo series  - The series – by photographer Arjun Kamath – captures the struggle that LGBT go through when coming out, as well as the rejection and ridicule they ...

Gender Hate Crimes in El Salvador to Receive Tougher Sentencing

Gender Hate Crimes in El Salvador to Receive Tougher Sentencing  - Those convicted of murdering members of LGBT in hate crimes can now face up to 50 years in prison, 20 years more than the earlier provision, if the ...

Rally to support defiant clerk jailed over marriage licenses

Rally to support defiant clerk jailed over marriage licenses  - But unlike in Rowan County, there is no LGBT community to speak of in those other rural areas — with few if any publicly gay couples to demand that ...

Myanmar Must Stop Illegally Detaining and Discriminating Against Gay People

Myanmar Must Stop Illegally Detaining and Discriminating Against Gay People  - Furthermore, he admits that the persons in question had committed no official crime, even under Myanmar's colonial-era anti- LGBT laws, but then ...

Alternative Family Week returns to UK as boom in LGBTI parenting continues

Alternative Family Week returns to UK as boom in LGBTI parenting continues  - There's still important work to do in helping to raise awareness of the options available to LGBT people around having children. My wife, Ellie and I ...

Religious persecution in the US?

Religious persecution in the US?  - The LGBT community in the United Sates is vociferously fighting these religious exemptions. In a policy document titled LGBT

Hurricane Katrina's struggling black gay community

Hurricane Katrina's struggling black gay community  - But the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, the largest of seventeen wards of New Orleans—and predominately African American —has not.

Digital gap keeps too many Austin Latinos from opportunities

Digital gap keeps too many Austin Latinos from opportunities  - Eight percent of Austin's adult population, or about 52,805 people , don't have home access to the Internet. More than 53.6 percent of ...

In a dramatic shift, joblessness plunges for Minnesota's Latinos

In a dramatic shift, joblessness plunges for Minnesota's Latinos  - In early 2010, Latino unemployment in the state peaked at 15.9 percent. ... “It's still very difficult for people to raise a family, even with the increase in ...

Ads that touch people's hearts

Ads that touch people's hearts  - When we talk of the biggest advertisers, one name that is very prominent among people is Coke. It is not only one of the biggest brands in the world ...

Black couple turns to fair housing law to sue neighbor and city over racial slurs

Black couple turns to fair housing law to sue neighbor and city over racial slurs  - Citing a section of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a black couple is suing their former ...

History Repeats Itself With Backlash Against Black Empowerment

History Repeats Itself With Backlash Against Black Empowerment  - The shortest walk through African - American history shows that the white ... from this vision, which implies shared power based upon racial equity.

African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes

African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes  - Faustin is making a documentary film about breaking the racial barrier, with the goals of giving more visibility to African American , Latino, Asian and ...

From 'welfare queens' to 'anchor babies' — Here are 12 of the most idiotic racist moral panics

From 'welfare queens' to 'anchor babies' — Here are 12 of the most idiotic racist moral panics  - Left out of this definition is the factor of race , which informs, amplifies and ... A gathering of teens, typically seen as African American , descend on a ...

Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports

Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports  - Serena has embraced her blackness," says Dr. Imani Perry, a professor at the Princeton Center for African American Studies and a scholar on law, ...