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Lesbian, gay and bisexual people grow older fearing discrimination and isolation
New research published today by Stonewall and The Co-operative Funeralcare starkly reveals that lesbian, gay and bisexual people grow older fearing discrimination and isolation.
Newcastle Pride Returns With Three Days Of Free Events
More than 65,000 visitors are expected to attend the UK’s second largest LGBT festival this weekend – helping to promote community and diversity in the North East.
WHO : Calls on all gays to take HIV medicine
Failure to provide adequate HIV services for key groups – men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people – threatens global progress on the HIV response, warns WHO.
GLAAD and over 25 organizations: FIFA must take action on homophobia in soccer
GLAAD, the America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, along with over 25 U.S. and international LGBT and human rights organizations sent a letter today to FIFA demanding concrete action to address homophobia in the game and anti-gay chants yelled in the stands. In advance of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, GLAAD also announced a continued campaign to educate FIFA and corporate sponsors about the standing anti-LGBT laws in both of those countries.
Rainbow Support From The Emergency Services
Police and firefighters will be showing their support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community at an event in Newcastle later this month.
Two Transgender Women Told to Remove Makeup and Wigs for License Photos and Called “It” by Staff at West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) calls upon the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles to allow two transgender women to take their driver’s license photos as they appear on a regular basis. DMV officials at separate offices previously ordered the women to remove their makeup and wigs before the agency would photograph them and used defamatory language towards the women in the process.