LGBT Youth Homelessness Is Not an Us/Them Issue

• Released Date: 16-Oct-2014

On September 30, the True Colors Fund held the first Forty to None Summit, a national gathering to discuss and strategize ways to end LGBT Youth Homelessness. It was fantastic!

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Palau: Gay sex decriminalised in penal code revision

• Released Date: 15-Oct-2014

The Pacific Republic of Palau has decriminalised gay sex in a revision of its penal code.

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‘Pride,’ solidarity and the future of the gay rights movement

• Released Date: 15-Oct-2014

Pride, Matthew Warchus’s charming movie about striking Welsh miners and the gay men and lesbians who mobilized to support them in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, is proof of the power of the British social-issues movie formula.

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Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State

• Released Date: 15-Oct-2014

Singapore has a well-deserved reputation as a state that stifles dissent and polices activism.

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Vatican document: Gay people have ‘gifts and qualities to offer’

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

The Roman Catholic Church must find a fraternal space for gay people, a Vatican document has said.

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CONGRATULATIONS Scotland: Gay couples set to marry from New Year’s Eve

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

PinkNews Exclusive, The date the first gay and lesbian couples will be able to marry in Scotland has been announced as New Year’s Eve 2014.

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APCOM CALLS FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR YOUNG GAY & TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

Bangkok, Thailand, 9 October 2014 – Young gay men and transgender people in Asia and the Pacific face high levels of depression, isolation and anxiety that can often lead to self-harm including suicide, and increased vulnerability to HIV, The Asia Pa

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Russian politician: Our clean air ‘purified’ actor Gérard Depardieu of homosexuality

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

A Russian politician has claimed that actor and director Gérard Depardieu has been ‘purified’ of homosexuality since moving to Russia.

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Rangoon to Host Burma’s Premier LGBT Film Fest

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

RANGOON — Burma’s first ever film festival devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues will take place in Rangoon next month.

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GLAAD Media Reference Guide - Transgender Issues

• Released Date: 13-Oct-2014

For additional resources on how to fairly and accurately report on transgender people, please see In Focus: Covering the Transgender Community and visit glaad.org/transgender.

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Violence Against Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Transgender Persons in Sri Lanka: A Shadow Report

• Released Date: 12-Oct-2014

This submission is made by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) in relation to concerns about the application and implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for lesbians, bisexual women an

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In New Film, Transgender Sex Workers Battle Stigma, Poverty

• Released Date: 11-Oct-2014

Krel Pao looks in the mirror as she powders her face and puts on lipstick. Ms. Pao, 40, is a self-identified ladyboy and a sex worker who is battling HIV.

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