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Pride School Atlanta' First for LGBTQ Students in US South

Pride School Atlanta' First for LGBTQ Students in US South - The non-profit private Pride School Atlanta is the first school in the U.S. South focused on LGBTQ students and one of the few addressing ...

Does a doctor's gender affect your chance of survival?

Does a doctor's gender affect your chance of survival? - What if your doctor's gender could influence your chance of surviving a visit to the hospital? A big study of older patients ...

BBC wants your real life stories from 50 years of decriminalised homosexuality

BBC wants your real life stories from 50 years of decriminalised homosexuality - The BBC are looking to reunite LGBTQ people for a documentary marking some of the milestones of LGBTQ history of last 50 years since he Sexual ...

Don't blame the Electoral College for Trump, blame yourself

Don't blame the Electoral College for Trump, blame yourself - The Electoral College, the antiquated but Constitutional mechanism that keeps delivering Republican presidents who have lost the popular vote, met ...

Lesbian Is the First Letter in LGBTQ. So Why Does the Identity Feel Like It's Fading Away?

Lesbian Is the First Letter in LGBTQ . So Why Does the Identity Feel Like It's Fading Away? - I came out in feminist bookstores. If you missed their heyday, they were like nerdy lesbian bars without the booze. Among their crowded shelves and ...

LGBTQ rights supporters win second victory at the United Nations

LGBTQ rights supporters win second victory at the United Nations - After a first defeat Nov. 21 in the General Assembly’s human rights committee, African nations led by Burkina Faso attempted again to suspend the work of LGBT expert during the final General Assembly vote. But the result was almost identical. The Africans urged the 193-member world body to delay implementation of a resolution adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in order to determine “the legal basis” for the expert’s mandate. They also sought to suspend the expert, Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand, who was appointed on Sept. 30 and has started his work.

Five Major Gains for LGBTQ Rights in 2016

Five Major Gains for LGBTQ Rights in 2016 - Yet LGBTQ people worldwide still face discrimination in many aspects of life such as employment, education and health care, and are subjected to ...

Human Rights Campaign Will Honor Meryl Streep

Human Rights Campaign Will Honor Meryl Streep - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ ) civil rights organization, will honor ...

Marijuana for morning sickness can harm your unborn child

Marijuana for morning sickness can harm your unborn child - Pregnant women who use marijuana to treat their nausea may be harming their unborn children , according to a warning from the ...

It's time to smoke out the lies about cannabis

It's time to smoke out the lies about cannabis - In the past week, our courts dealt with a young man killed over a drug debt of €100. Most media reports of this sad affair glossed over the drug involved. It wasn’t heroin. It wasn’t cocaine. It was soft, cuddly cannabis. Our clinical services routinely encounter young people who have racked up debts of thousands of euro to fund their insatiable appetite for this drug. Frankly, I didn’t believe these young people, when I first met them, in 2008.

Who are we hanging in the name of terrorism?

Who are we hanging in the name of terrorism? - Other than these cases, another most important aspect that came to the fore was the black warrants of mentally ill persons. Recently, the Supreme ...

10 Ways To Handle New Year's Diet Resolutions When You Have An Eating Disorder

10 Ways To Handle New Year's Diet Resolutions When You Have An Eating Disorder - But bear in mind, ways to handle New Year's diet resolutions when you have an eating disorder are not only vital to your mental health ; they can save ...

Scientists have found genetic links between personality traits and psychiatric diseases

Scientists have found genetic links between personality traits and psychiatric diseases - Scientists have identified genetic links between a set of psychological ... and say they could also influence risk factors for certain psychiatric disorders .

Restrained inmate denied mental health care, says prison reform campaigner

Restrained inmate denied mental health care, says prison reform campaigner - A prisoner was held in a waist restraint with his hands cuffed behind his back for 21 hours a day after a mental health team would not treat him, ...

The Mental Healthcare Bill Fails to Humanise How Mental Illness is Approached

The Mental Healthcare Bill Fails to Humanise How Mental Illness is Approached - However, the Bill still operates on an individualised and medicalised paradigm of looking at mental health . This approach raises serious concerns as it ...

Why are Americans with severe mental illness dying 25 years younger than their peers?

Why are Americans with severe mental illness dying 25 years younger than their peers? - When Ken Jue was the director of a community mental - health center in New Hampshire, he felt it was his obligation to attend the funerals of clients ...