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5 Ways Carrie Fisher Helped the LGBTQ Community - While Fisher never took herself too seriously, her celebrity status had a serious impact on LGBTQ people, even if just as an intersectional by-product of ...

Iconic Midwest Gay Bar Closes Its Doors After 36 Years - The final hours of of a weekend-long garage sale brought a quiet end to an iconic institution within Quincy, Illinois' LGBTQ community.  Last month, the bar held a final night of dancing and entertainment before closing its doors one last time. Now, the process of cleaning out and selling pieces of the bar's history brings back memories for those who have been involved with it all these years. "So much has changed," said owner and longtime manager Robert Clow. "You can be gay and go out to any bar in town now." 

18 Classics of LGBTQ Literature - The honest, terrible truth is that LGBTQ people have been persecuted for much of human history. Simply existing as a gay person was often enough to ...

British Arts Institutions Will Highlight Gay History in 2017 - Inspired by the book A Little Gay History (2013) by Richard Parkinson, the exhibition creates a treasure map of historic LGBTQ moments and objects in ...

Top LGBTQ Entertainment Moments of 2016 - Au revoir, 2016! From the the drawn out presidential election to the long list of celebrity deaths, we're ready to bid this year farewell. But before we do, ...

A Celebration of Resilience' event unites the San Diego LGBTQ community - Mental Health America of San Diego is formulating a community event for LGBT identified individuals and their allies for an evening of support and ...

Here Are 13 Of The Worst Anti- LGBTQ Villains Of 2016 - After years of progressive strides, 2016 turned out to be an unfortunate stumbling block in the LGBTQ community's quest for equality. Unquestionably ...

This little runway model's mom should be 2016's Mother of the Year - What should any mother do as soon as she realizes she's raising a gaybie? The answer, of course, is to support them. That's why the mom in this ...

Vitamin D and folic acid can help deal with depression - What you eat can help to boost your mental well-being, even if you do not sense any immediate ... Iron is also essential for maintaining mental health .

Carrie Fisher Spoke Fearlessly About Living with Bipolar Disorder - Carrie was an outspoken advocate for mental health , sharing her experience with bipolar disorder and addiction in order to break down the stigma ...

Helping older teens make sexual health decisions - Much has been made in recent years of the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. To address this, many higher education institutions have implemented sexual assault trainings for entering students. This is a step in the right direction, but Health Connected, a local health education organization, has worked with local schools to ensure that high school students are prepared to have conversations about consent well before they become independent young adults.  

Why Acne Can Strike Women After the Teen Years - Similarly, Jaliman said, chronic stress takes a toll on overall health , and that could show up on the skin. Over 80 percent of teenagers have bouts of ...

Is your child watching TV for hours? - The children aged between five and 17 years sit for nearly 10 hours, especially over the weekend, behind a screen such as television or mobile phones. In addition, they  rarely walk because they use school vans and buses. In Nairobi County alone, nearly 14.4 per cent of children are either obese or overweight, the Kenya’s 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity and Body Weight of Children and Youth shows.

U.S. Families Spend 1.5 Billion Hours Yearly on Kids With Special Health Needs - Parents of chronically ill children are asked these days to provide "the kind of care that, if they weren't there, the system would have to provide home health care or keep the children in the hospital longer," said Schuster, chief of general pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. He's also a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Parents must keep eye on children's heart health , doctors say - Parents have been advised by Dr Radhkrishnan, paediatric cardiologist and a visiting consultant at RAK Hospital, that they should keep a watchful eye on their toddlers and take for regular check-ups. Symptoms include increased sweating, poor weight gain, difficulty in feeding, and respiratory infections, among others.

Time for co-ordination on Indigenous youth mental health - Indigenous child health is in crisis. Children of First Nations, Inuit and Métis heritage have the worst health outcomes in Canada, particularly when it ...