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Being gay and disabled in a red state one month after the election

Being gay and disabled in a red state one month after the election - can be an odd place to be gay, especially post-election.While it's previously made strides for the LGBTQ community–we can have sex legally now!

Labor Secretary Nom: Loves Hot Women, Hates Overtime Pay

Labor Secretary Nom: Loves Hot Women, Hates Overtime Pay - So far, every single person he's appointed has an anti- LGBTQ record, with his vice president, Mike Pence, being among the worst. But for working ...

UN's New Gay Rights Advocate Unfazed by Anti-LGBTQ Opposition

UN's New Gay Rights Advocate Unfazed by Anti- LGBTQ Opposition - Nations may outlaw same-sex relations, execute gay people and oppose the very existence of his job, but the United Nations' first investigator tasked ...

State-Level Threats to LGBTQ Process and The Way Forward

State-Level Threats to LGBTQ Process and The Way Forward - After Trump takes office, GLAAD expects a 20-30% increase in proposed state-level anti- LGBTQ laws. But there's still hope through careful organizing ...

This Camp Offers LGBTQ Youth An Incredible Way To Celebrate The Holidays

This Camp Offers LGBTQ Youth An Incredible Way To Celebrate The Holidays - A Los Angeles-based youth camp will offer LGBTQ teens a unique and exciting way to celebrate this holiday season. Camp Lightbulb, which promises ...

Work for LGBTQ Rights to Continue

Work for LGBTQ Rights to Continue - US Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited students at the Harvey Milk High School in New York City where she urged that the work for LGBTQ rights ...

LGBTQ Activists Plan Anti-Trump Rally, Stress Need for 'Identity Politics'

LGBTQ Activists Plan Anti-Trump Rally, Stress Need for 'Identity Politics' - I am a woman," said Eunic Ortiz, president of the New York City-based LGBTQ organization Stonewall Democrats. "Coming out of the election, people ...

Sundance 2017's Lineup Features LGBTQ Films From Around the World

Sundance 2017's Lineup Features LGBTQ Films From Around the World - It's significant that the global selection includes more LGBTQ -themed films than the American offerings considering the timely international issues that ...

New film explores impact of stress on children

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New film explores impact of stress on children - The LAT is a collaboration between Mission’s doctors and other community partners,” said Nicole Martin, project coordinator for the Mission division of Family Practice. “Because we have evidence showing that stress is seriously undermining the health of our children and our entire community, we’re working to engage families and support people so that we can improve our resiliency at every level.”

Teen Shows Both Faces of Mental Illness With Hair and Makeup

Teen Shows Both Faces of Mental Illness With Hair and Makeup - It's easy to overlook mental illnesses since they may not be as outwardly apparent as other health problems are, but one teen is determined to show ...

Three Signs The American Dream Is Fading

Three Signs The American Dream Is Fading - But that was the early 1900s. And Chaplin’s was a different America. Today the desire to live the American Dream still persists. And of course plenty of people still become famous or successful. Ironically Barack Obama is a great example– a mixed race guy who came from nothing to eventually become the President of the United States.

Four ways President-elect Trump plans to rig the corporate tax code to benefit billionaires

Four ways President-elect Trump plans to rig the corporate tax code to benefit billionaires - We looked at how the corporate tax reforms proposed by President-elect Trump and Speaker Ryan would affect poverty and inequality in the US and ...

Why football and Donald Trump give me hope for America

Why football and Donald Trump give me hope for America - Cadets from the U.S. Military Academy fly a banner depicting President ... So do we point to income inequality as the sole destroyer of the American  ...

Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky - Thus, questions about the nature of the US's economy and its dysfunctional ... The inequality in the contemporary period is almost unprecedented.

How drag saved my relationship with my Muslim mother and made me fall in love again with my ...

How drag saved my relationship with my Muslim mother and made me fall in love again with my ... - My Arab family household was like Ru Paul's Drag Race (but without the cameras and acknowledged queerness). When I was eight years old and it ...

More Americans have jobs, yet inequality is increasing nationally

More Americans have jobs, yet inequality is increasing nationally - After five years of incremental progress, the nation's Opportunity Score has stalled, according to the 2016 Opportunity Index. Produced in partnership ...