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Caring for LGBT Older Adults with Dignity and Respect

Caring for LGBT Older Adults with Dignity and Respect - Nurse Joyce Howard and her home care patient, Martha P., quickly found common ground: they had both grown up in the Caribbean, Joyce on the ...

Meet the activists mapping London's LGBT history

Meet the activists mapping London's LGBT history - Remembering LGBT history is important because "it's not taught generally, it's not covered in general books," said Jim MacSweeney, manager of gay ...

Queer Hollywood series to portray LGBT characters of color and their stories

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Queer Hollywood series to portray LGBT characters of color and their stories - This year’s installations focus on representations of LGBT people of color in movies. Ohio University’s LGBT Center will host Blackbird, The Color Purple and Bessie Smith in March and April — each for one night only. The screening of Bessie Smith was rescheduled for a date to be determined “This series is sort of an opportunity to raise awareness about who we are as a community historically and the contributions … of queer people,” delfin bautista, the director of the LGBT Center, said.

LGBT community worries about hate crime prosecutions

LGBT community worries about hate crime prosecutions - Trump's new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, opposed the 2009 hate crime law when he was a U.S. senator, saying it was overly broad and he thought ...

China's LGBT Youth Face Lots of Bullying, Little Acceptance

China's LGBT Youth Face Lots of Bullying, Little Acceptance - Most LGBT — lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender — students aren't sure of their own gender identity or sexual orientation until they are in high ...

Sapporo to become first major city to recognize LGBT couples in June

Sapporo to become first major city to recognize LGBT couples in June - The municipal government of Sapporo said Tuesday it plans to officially recognize same-sex partnerships between gay, lesbian, bisexual ...

Trump administration proposes eliminating LGBT elders from key federal survey

Trump administration proposes eliminating LGBT elders from key federal survey - Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) announced today that it is launching a nationwide effort to oppose the ...

Study reveals the status of LGBT people in the workplace

Study reveals the status of LGBT people in the workplace - Yesterday, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) unveiled a snapshot of its latest research around the status of LGBT people in the business world.

Let Latino families liberate their children from bad schools

Let Latino families liberate their children from bad schools - In his 1968 book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire wrote, “trusting the people is the indispensable ...

High Rate of Colorectal Cancer in Latinos--Are Genes, Stigma, or Other Factors to Blame?

High Rate of Colorectal Cancer in Latinos --Are Genes, Stigma, or Other Factors to Blame? - Depending on where you are, the group of Latinos that you see is different. If you are on the West Coast of the United States, you see people who are ...

Venezuela: Socialism's House of Horrors

Venezuela: Socialism's House of Horrors - As former National Security Council officer Roger Fontaine pointed out in a 1996 Cato Institute policy analysis, the South American nation has never ...

Across Latin America, violence against women fuels more crime

Across Latin America , violence against women fuels more crime - Across Latin America , violence against women fuels more crime ... The incredibly high levels of violence against women in Latin America have long ... the ten countries with the world's highest female murder rate are in Latin America .

Greater integration = economic revival? Latin America believes so.

Greater integration = economic revival? Latin America believes so. - Before 2000, the average Latin American country held preferential trade agreements with about 4 regional partners; by 2013 these had increased to ...

Photographing Freetowns' Highlights Little-Known African-American Communities

Photographing Freetowns' Highlights Little-Known African - American Communities - In the years following the Civil War, small communities of former slaves were founded in the rural Kentucky Bluegrass region, outside of Lexington.

Actor and musician Will Smith explains how he honed his career with data, 'like an African ...

Actor and musician Will Smith explains how he honed his career with data, 'like an African ... - I was like an African American Watson. So then I did 'Men in Black' and 'Independence Day' back-to-back and in the true version of data analysis, ...

Study Connects Genes to Late Onset Alzheimer's in African-Americans

Study Connects Genes to Late Onset Alzheimer's in African - Americans - And African - Americans have the highest rates of Alzheimer's of any racial or ethnic group. They are also two times as likely to develop late onset ...