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Here's Exactly Why A Vote For Trump Is Vote Against LGBTQ Rights - Let's be clear: a vote for Trump is a vote against LGBTQ rights. The 2016 Republican party platform has been criticized as the “most anti-LGBT” in ...

Trump's Revolution Will Go Past November - First, they need tokick out every single lawmaker in Washington and the Republican Party who does not support the LGBTQ community. The people ...

Study confirms children of gay and lesbian parents are well-adjusted - Despite what the haters may say, science has shown once again that gay and lesbian parents are just as good at raising happy, healthy children as ...

5 things to know about the first transgender rights Supreme Court case - For the first time, the nation's highest court will wade into the issue transgender rights — a contentious debate that has ...

HRC Unendorses Mark Kirk After Racial Comment -  LGBTQ rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) rescinded its support for Mark Kirk, an embattled Republican senator from Illinois, after he openly ...

Once Taboo, Gay Characters Are Taking Over YA Fiction - It just showed me there was an openness to the YA LGBTQ world that was very flexible and cool," says gay YA author Jeffrey Self. Novelist Simon ...

Remembering the gay man who saved 17 million lives - 

3 Reasons It Sets the Bar for Queer Representation - Despite the progress made by the LGBTQ community in the last decade, the majority of media is still created with either a mainstream audience or a ...

Psychiatry: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Psychiatrists have invented terms such as “ mental illness ” and “ mental disorder ,” the diagnosis and treatment of which is their bread and butter, their ...

White House says system, not personal decisions, drive poverty - This structural economic inequality is rarely the result of personal decisions made ... they said, reduces the causes of inequality to “personal responsibility. ... of sustainable development goals aimed at eliminating poverty in America .

Time to Fight a Cancer Crisis in Rural America - We didn't fix the poverty issue in rural Appalachia, and [the residents there] have ... counties than non-Appalachian urban areas in the rest of the US .

Health professionals promote child hygiene - October is Children's Health Month and health professionals encourage kids to increase hygiene to prevent the spreading of illnesses. "Influenza is ...

Parents have 'rosy view' of kids ' health - This survey shows parents have a sort of rosy view of their children's health and intake,” HBF dietitian Mary Du Heaume said. “One of the best things ...

How cell phones wreak havoc on teen sleep patterns: Just two hours a day of gossiping on the ... -  Teens who engaged in other sedentary activities that did not involve ... 'It is important that they set the standard for healthy sleep routines!' she said in ...

How This 15-Year-Old Entrepreneur Balances School, Business and a Social Life - Meet teen health advocate Haile Thomas. ... her own youth health organization called HAPPY in effort to fight conditions like diabetes and childhood ...

Mental health heroes focus on teen suicide prevention - The heroes of mental health are all around us: the teacher who lets kids know they're appreciated, a teen whose rap video deals with all-too-frequent ...