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The best LGBT films to watch, from 1895 to 2017 - In honour of BFI Flare, the LGBT film festival which launches on 16 March, we've made a timeline of the most significant moments and must-see films ...

End “panic defense” for attacks on gays in Illinois -  LGBT persons are often victims of harassment and physical violence. Approximately three-quarters of LGBT persons report that they have been victims ...

Former North Carolina Governor Says 'Bathroom Law' Made Him Unhireable After Office - The former Republican governor cited a January incident in Washington where he was chased down an alley by LGBT rights activists chanting ...

Atlanta's LGBT -friendly US attorney survives Trump purge - Last July, Horn met with scores of LGBT Atlanta organizers and activists during a first-of-its-kind town hall and announced the creation of a special unit ...

This year's LA Pride parade will be replaced with an LGBT Resist protest march - The annual L.A. Pride parade in West Hollywood will be replaced this year with a political rally and LGBT Resist march through the streets, held in ...

Dozens of Anti- LGBT Bills Proposed This Year Target Kids and Families - Billy Mawhiney is a 38-year-old cooking instructor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He works with local kids, teaching classes at Plum's Cooking ...

Should private schools be allowed to discriminate against LGBT families in BC? - Advocates for LGBT students say they're disappointed the minister's order didn't address private school admissions policies. Glen Hansman, president ...

Lesbian and bisexual women are being incorrectly told they don't need smear tests, LGBT charities ... - Lesbian, bisexual and other women who have sex with women (LBWSW) lack acknowledgement both in mainstream society and LGBT communities, ...

Targeting “Hot Spots” Could Drastically Reduce Latin America's Murder Rate - Perhaps more than any other part of the world, homicide in Latin America is concentrated by time and place - for policymakers hoping to reduce the region’s staggering levels of violent crime, this represents a major opportunity. Home to just 8 percent of the world’s population, Latin America experiences 33 percent of the world’s homicides, and is disproportionately affected by other forms of victimization, including assault, robbery and property crime. Most of this occurs in just a handful of urban settings. In response, crime prevention measures that explicitly target places, people and times where criminal activity recur have generated remarkable successes in the region.

Republican Latinos Troubled by GOP's Obamacare Replacement - Ros-Lehtinen's main reasons: "too many of my constituents will lose insurance and there will be less funds to help the poor and elderly with their healthcare." Her explanation of her plan to vote "no" comes the day after the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the GOP health coverage plan and found that by 2026, some 24 million fewer people would be covered than are now, about 14 million would lose Medicaid coverage and subsidies would be eliminated for low-income people who buy non-group plans on the private Obamacare markets. 

Hispanics and the blacks' will fight before white people become majority-minority - King, a Republican, said on local Iowa radio on Tuesday that he doesn't think white people will ever become a majority-minority ethnicity in the United ...

The fight for Latin America's 'invisible' indigenous women - The fight for Latin America's 'invisible' indigenous women ... We need to do more to empower the indigenous women of Latin America , if we're ... Girls have better access to education , more women are in work, and many countries ...

Get Out' Gets In Our Heads About African Americans And Mental Health - That scene and the audience's reaction reminded me of our history with medical racism and why some African Americans distrust the mental health ...

Atlanta Fed Makes History With First African - American CEO -  African - American unemployment was above 15 percent the entire year, but transcripts show that racial disparities in the unemployment figure never ...

Black History Month Sheds a Light on Racism as a Public Health Threat - Black History Month Sheds a Light on Racism as a Public Health Threat ... A variety of factors can put African - Americans at a higher risk of reduced ...

Get Out director Jordan Peele responds to black Brits vs African - Americans comments - "So very quickly I accepted this idea that though there is a distinct African - American experience, and there is a distinct racial experience worldwide, ...

Black History Month Sheds a Light on Racism as a Public Health Threat - Black History Month Sheds a Light on Racism as a Public Health Threat ... A variety of factors can put African - Americans at a higher risk of reduced ...