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Transgender Filipino Lawmaker is Making Strides to Protect the LGBT Community

Transgender Filipino Lawmaker is Making Strides to Protect the LGBT Community - The Philippines, a nation dubbed as one of the most gay-friendly nations in the world, has yet to enact a law protecting the LGBTQ community. For 17 ...

LGBTQ Community, Supporters Say 'Enough is Enough' Following Candidate's Previous Online

LGBTQ Community, Supporters Say 'Enough is Enough' Following Candidate's Previous Online - Time Warner Cable News reporter Breanna Fuss shares a message from a rally of community and LGBTQ leaders condemning online comments ...

The Most Important Thing You Can Do Right Now

The Most Important Thing You Can Do Right Now - Amid the noise and headlines, our LGBTQ communities must step back and remember why it is crucial for all of us to take the most important action ...

LGBT Africans Maintain Their Identity Through Style

LGBT Africans Maintain Their Identity Through Style - Limit(less) is an ongoing photography project by Mikael Owunna documenting the fashion and style of LGBT Africans in diaspora. "As LGBTQ Africans ...

Silicon Valley needs to be the change

Silicon Valley needs to be the change - Remember when PayPal canceled its proposed North Carolina facility in response to that state's governor's anti- LGBTQ bills earlier this year?

Five Bisexual Women Who Aren't Afraid to Live Their Truth

Five Bisexual Women Who Aren't Afraid to Live Their Truth - Paquin continues to serve as a powerful role model for LGBTQ youth, frequently discussing her the issues facing the bisexual community. Coming out ...

LGBTQ families await proposed changes to Ontario's parentage laws

LGBTQ families await proposed changes to Ontario's parentage laws - Donna McDonagh's daughter was born in the autumn of 2006 – an exciting time in the province of Ontario for lesbian couples. A law was about to ...

More Than Who We Sleep With: A Bisexual Manifesto

More Than Who We Sleep With: A Bisexual Manifesto - Instead of being viewed as an independent community, bisexuals have been served as an identity attached to the broader LGBTQ community.

Your sibling's mental disorder may put you at an increased risk of developing the condition

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Your sibling's mental disorder may put you at an increased risk of developing the condition - Individuals who have a brother or sister with mental disorders may be at an increased risk of developing the condition, a study has warned. The study ...

Does your child sext? New online tool to help parents identify harmful sexual behaviour

Does your child sext? New online tool to help parents identify harmful sexual behaviour - New guidelines have been issued by a health watchdog to help parents and professionals working with children identify the difference between ...

Survey prompts fresh concern over poor child health

Survey prompts fresh concern over poor child health - Dr Steve Turner, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's Officer for Scotland, said: “It's widely known that healthy children are much more ...

Good relationships with parents may benefit children's health decades later

Good relationships with parents may benefit children's health decades later - Growing up in a well-off home can benefit a child's physical health even decades later -- but a lack of parent- child warmth, or the presence of abuse, ...

Good sleep, nutrition, exercise key to good mental health

Good sleep, nutrition, exercise key to good mental health -    The consultant psychiatrist said the major cause of mental illness was hereditary, adding that this was common in people whose relatives had it before ...

Mental health at university: 'Students shouldn't have to suffer like I did'

Mental health at university: 'Students shouldn't have to suffer like I did' - I had OCD, depression, and an eating disorder. It went on for years. More mental health support in universities could help prevent ordeals like mine.

Student confronts mental illness

Student confronts mental illness - According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health America Services Administration's 2015 report, out of 67,500 interviews, 21.7 percent of adults aged ...

Increased Risk of Mental Illness if Sibling Hospitalized for Same Disorder

Increased Risk of Mental Illness if Sibling Hospitalized for Same Disorder - New research has allowed investigators to assess the individual risk of developing a mental disorder if a brother or sister has been hospitalized for the ...