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Will Smith's One-Man Denver LGBTQ Nightclub Safety Campaign

Will Smith's One-Man Denver LGBTQ Nightclub Safety Campaign - For more than a year, numerous major Denver LGBTQ venues have received regular reports about crimes at or near their establishments and others ...

Watch Ellen DeGeneres tearfully accept one of Obama's last Presidential Medals of Freedom

Watch Ellen DeGeneres tearfully accept one of Obama's last Presidential Medals of Freedom - DeGeneres teared up as a White House aide introduced her and praised her courage in blazing a trail for LGBTQ equality: “At a pivotal moment, her ...

Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead now surpasses 2 MILLION

Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead now surpasses 2 MILLION - Hillary Clinton has made history again: as of Wednesday she is now the first American presidential candidate to have more than two million more ...

New York Lawmaker's 'Pence' Bill Would Ban Abusive LGBTQ 'Conversion Therapy'

New York Lawmaker's 'Pence' Bill Would Ban Abusive LGBTQ 'Conversion Therapy' - A county lawmaker in New York has a cheeky name for a new bill banning so-called “conversion therapy” for young LGBTQ people. Patrick Burke, a ...

LGBTQ protections may cost 10000 Louisiana state workers their health coverage

LGBTQ protections may cost 10000 Louisiana state workers their health coverage - Cameron Henry, who vowed to keep rejecting contracts so long as they include provisions that would protect LGBTQ workers from discrimination.

Laverne Cox Has Some Powerful Thoughts About Life in Donald Trump's America

Laverne Cox Has Some Powerful Thoughts About Life in Donald Trump's America - is harmful to the trans community, which has, in turn, raised concerns about what the Trump-Pence administration will be like for LGBTQ Americans.

Alliance for Justice Shows Trump's AG Pick's Dismal Record on LGBTQ Rights

Alliance for Justice Shows Trump's AG Pick's Dismal Record on LGBTQ Rights - Just how bad for LGBTQ rights would Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General be? If his record in congress is any indication, it will be pretty awful.

Attempt to save former SF gay bar sites and rumored escape tunnels faces setback

Attempt to save former SF gay bar sites and rumored escape tunnels faces setback - Attempts by LGBTQ activists to preserve what they see as an historically significant site in San Francisco's Tenderloin District failed last week as the ...

Hypertension and Prehypertension Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in U.S. Children

Hypertension and Prehypertension Underdiagnosed and Undertreated in U.S. Children - Researchers analyzed the electronic health records of 400,000 children from nearly 200 pediatric primary care sites across the country, between 1999 ...

More and more families dishing out something other than turkey this Thanksgiving at the kids' table

More and more families dishing out something other than turkey this Thanksgiving at the kids' table - As many as one in six parents say their teen has tried going vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan or paleo at some point in the past two years, according to a new poll by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan.

Thanksgiving when teens don't eat like the rest of the family

Thanksgiving when teens don't eat like the rest of the family - Some families gathering for Thanksgiving this week may have something to argue about besides politics: what to do when teens at ...

The Richest 10 Percent Now Control 89 Percent Of The World's Wealth

The Richest 10 Percent Now Control 89 Percent Of The World's Wealth - The wealthiest 10 percent of adults are mostly in North America , Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Data on China shows great inequality as home to both 9 ...

A Photographic Chronicle of America's Working Poor

A Photographic Chronicle of America's Working Poor - The official U.S. poverty level is an annual income below $11,880 for a single person or $24,300 for a household of four. That yields a rate of 13.5 ...

Fixing Urban Poverty In America's 'Dark Ghettos'

Fixing Urban Poverty In America's 'Dark Ghettos' - Concentrated urban poverty in America persists despite decades of public-policy tweaks and attempted government intervention, and some argue the ...

Americans Have More to Be Thankful for than You'd Think

Americans Have More to Be Thankful for than You'd Think - Last year, 13.5 percent of Americans lived in poverty , a significant 1.2 percentage point decline from the year before. That's still too many, but it does ...

Get Ready for a War on the Poor

Get Ready for a War on the Poor - The bureau also told us that the percentage of people without health ... asked if he would be able to lift America's 50 million poor people out of poverty .