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Class-action suit claims government persecuted LGBTQ employees - A group of LGBTQ individuals has launched a class-action lawsuit against the federal government, claiming decades' ...

The GOP is trying to suppress 34000 transgender voters today - The primary, if (mostly) unspoken, purpose of voter ID laws is to keep down turnout among African-American voters who prefer Democrats. But one of ...

LGBTQ Celebrities and Allies Help Get Out the Vote - Here are just some of the many LGBTQ celebrities and allies encouraging people to get to the polls.

Here's Where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sStand on LGBTQ Issues - While a Trump administration will differ vastly from a Clinton one in most regards, the LGBTQ population in particular can expect to be hugely affected ...

Wentworth Miller shames antigay troll, calls for reflection: 'Words matter' - In two posts on Facebook, Wentworth Miller — the actor best known for his role on TV's Prison Break — responded in the best way possible to a ...

Oakland University ranks as one of state's top LGBTQ -inclusive campuses - Oakland University was recently ranked as one of the top LGBTQ -friendly campuses in the state of Michigan by the Campus Pride Index, which rates ...

How North Carolina votes today will shape its future political identity - Nowhere is the nation's election-year schism more apparent than in North Carolina. The state with a marked urban-rural divide ...

Marriage Equality Icons Help Celebrate Grand Opening - The Thea Spyer Center, located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, serves thousands of LGBTQ New Yorkers yearly, offering "short and long term ...

The Myth of America's Spending on International Aid - However, in reality the U.S. only spends 1 percent on foreign aid. Right now, $30 billion goes towards programs assisting the world’s needy. In comparison to other foreign policy priorities, $664 billion is spent on the military. Expanding this to the global front, “in 1970, the world’s richest countries agreed to give 0.7 percent of their gross national income as official international development aid.”

Here's Why Teen STDs Are Hitting All-Time Highs - But that doesn't mean that an STD no longer can cause severe health ... Another factor contributing to the rise in teen STDs is the fact that many ...

The Smart Way to Argue With Your Young Teen - Therapists say argumentative young teens are healthy ones. They are learning how to handle disagreements and advocate for their own point of view, ...

Editor pioneers gay media in Arab world - That combination makes Khalid Abdel-Hadi, 27, the founder and editor of the first LGBT magazine for the Arab world a particularly controversial figure.

Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change - This week's US Presidential election will likely be more important for climate change action than the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference ...

America still has a huge racial inequality problem - On this election day in the United States, Americans are still not facing up to a critical and volatile issue: racial inequality and its resulting social ...

The Developing World's Health Innovators - We live in an age of tragic health paradoxes. Mass immunization campaigns have eliminated entire diseases, but children in countries like ...

15 Toxic Things You Don't Know Are Poisoning Your Children - Instead of simply handing a child a prescription, many countries such as ... Glyphosate is especially threatening to children's health as it's known to ...