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Intersectional Women’s Day 2018
Jessica Stern, Executive Director of OutRight Action International, releases a statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
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Advocates Set New Goal to Graduate 90 Percent of Homeless Students by 2030
Yesterday, SchoolHouse Connection, the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness (ICPH), Civic Enterprises and America’s Promise Alliance launched Education Leads Home, a first-of-its-kind national campaign focused exclusively on addressing the needs of the 1.3 million homeless students enrolled in America’s public schools.
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Ankara ban on LGBTQ events continues as Turkish courts reject NGO appeals
The ban on public events organised by LGBTQ groups, imposed by the Ankara Governor’s office in November 2017, has been upheld by Ankara’s 4th and 13th Administrative Courts.
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New Exhibition Highlights History, Diversity of LGBTQ Periodicals in Northern California
A new exhibition will highlight the history and diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer periodicals produced in Northern California from the 1940s through the 2000s.
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Virgin Trains and HMP Northumberland transform old uniforms in pioneering recycle scheme
Virgin Trains has handed over its old uniforms to a prison in Northumberland to be recycled by its talented textiles team. This follows the launch in 2017 of Virgin Trains’ new body-neutral uniform range designed by sustainable fashion designers Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway for every gender, size and shape across both the East and West Coast.
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United States: State Laws Threaten LGBT Equality
The rash of new “religious exemption” laws passed by state legislatures around the United States represent a thinly-veiled assault against the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the absence of robust nondiscrimination protections, these laws function as a license to discriminate rather than a good faith attempt to protect religious liberty and should be repealed.