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This Is the Day to Address Bullying of LGBT Youth

This Is the Day to Address Bullying of LGBT Youth  - Today's Spirit Day celebrates the forward march of LGBT rights, a good day, the author argues, to consider the frequent bullying of LGBT youth.

Top Psychiatrist Calls For “Radical Solutions” To Address Mental Illness In LGBT Community

Top Psychiatrist Calls For “Radical Solutions” To Address Mental Illness In LGBT Community  - It's clear that in countries with laws that continue to discriminate against LGBT people, there are high rates of mental illness as a result, he said, citing ...

Rand Paul's disgraceful solution to LGBT workplace discrimination: Stay in the closet

Rand Paul's disgraceful solution to LGBT workplace discrimination: Stay in the closet  - Paul, apparently only concerned with increased litigation, explained that if LGBT employees just stayed in the closet during work hours the issue of ...

How Fox News Talks About LGBT History

How Fox News Talks About LGBT History  - October is LGBT History Month in the United States, an annual observance of the contributions and history of the LGBT community. But Fox News has ...

Spirit Day' Important to LGBT Youth: Community Leader

Spirit Day' Important to LGBT Youth: Community Leader  - Before becoming a leader in Dallas' LGBT community, Brown overcame bouts of depression and instances of physical violence when he was bullied ...

Tennessee church kicks out 'sexually impure' Boy Scouts after organization lifts LGBT ban

Tennessee church kicks out 'sexually impure' Boy Scouts after organization lifts LGBT ban  - A Tennessee church has kicked a local Boy Scout troop out because the organization lifted its ban on openly LGBT scout leaders and members, KTRK ...

Ban Of Conversion Therapy For LGBT Youth Required

Ban Of Conversion Therapy For LGBT Youth Required  - Commenting on the practice, SAMHSA Special Expert on LGBT Affairs, Elliot Kennedy said, “Conversion therapies or other efforts to change sexual ...

Our Work for LGBT Rights Isn't Done

Our Work for LGBT Rights Isn't Done  - This post is drawn from Ambassador Samantha Power's remarks, as delivered, on "Making LGBT Rights Universally Respected Human Rights," in ...

Latin American Youngsters Fight for Greater Inclusion

Latin American Youngsters Fight for Greater Inclusion  - She underlined that in many nations of the continent with progressive governments they are still working to improve the rates of education , health, job, ...

The secret surveillance of 'suspicious' blacks in one of the nation's poshest neighborhoods

The secret surveillance of 'suspicious' blacks in one of the nation's poshest neighborhoods  - 2 black males screaming at each other in alley," Walter wrote. ... laying bare the racial fault lines that still define this cobblestoned enclave of tony ... "Suspicious shoppers in store," an American Apparel retailer said in April last year.

3 Research Proven Strategies for Dealing with Racism

3 Research Proven Strategies for Dealing with Racism  - There is no question that systemic oppression plays a role in the mental health of Black Americans across age groups. Research dating back to the ...

How the US Criminal Justice System Operates as a Debt-Based System of Racial Control

How the US Criminal Justice System Operates as a Debt-Based System of Racial Control  - More than a century later, one in fifteen African Americans have fallen victim to the same debt-based system of racial control that terrorized Green ...

5 Tips for Talking To Children About Race

5 Tips for Talking To Children About Race  - Hall who identifies as white, has two daughters who are Latina and African - American . She makes it a point to talk to her daughters about racism and ...

First Democratic Debate Draws Mixed Reviews Among Latino Organizations

First Democratic Debate Draws Mixed Reviews Among Latino Organizations  - Though he praised the candidates for addressing issues important to the Latino community, including affordable higher education and health care, ...

Social Protection Key in Tackling Hunger, Poverty

Social Protection Key in Tackling Hunger, Poverty  - On the other hand, in regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean where poverty rates are lower, almost 60 percent of the population receive ...

Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean  -    The Latin America and Caribbean region is vulnerable to some of the most .... people, Afro-descendants, children, and women living in poverty .