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Month: September 2017
POLICIES
Russia charges activist with sharing LGBT links on Facebook.
A Russian human rights activist is being charged with violating Russia’s controversial “anti-LGBT propaganda” law after sharing links on Facebook, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Evdokia Romanova is based in Samara, one of Russia’s largest cities, where she works as a staff member for LGBT rights organization Samara Regional Public LGBT Movement, also known as “Avers.”
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Lesbians at higher risk for health problems than straight counterparts.
Researchers at the University of Washington examined CDC data for 33,000 adults over the age of 50, and found that strokes, heart attacks, asthma, arthritis and other problems were significantly more prevalent among gay/bi women that heterosexuals.
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Supreme Court looking at federal level protections for LGBT workers.
Jameka Evans began working as a security guard at Georgia Regional Hospital in 2012, and the trouble, she alleged, started soon after that. In court complaints, she said that her supervisor, Charles Moss, didn’t like the fact that she’s a lesbian, nor how she wore men’s clothes and cropped her hair in a masculine style.
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Support for transgender troops now coming from Congress.
The effort to protect transgender troops already serving in the military just got a major boost. The top two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Jack Reed (D-RI), introduced legislation with Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) on Friday to stop the Defense Department from following through on President Donald Trump’s directive to kick out trans service members.
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Transgender troops can re-enlist, for now.
New guidance released Friday by the Pentagon makes it clear that any transgender troops currently in the military can re-enlist in the next several months, even as the department debates how broadly to enforce a ban on their service ordered by President Donald Trump.
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The myths about same-sex marriage in Australia.
BY NOW most Australians should have received their postal surveys asking them whether same-sex marriage should be legalised. Recent surveys suggest 65 per cent of Australians intend to take part in the survey, which is not compulsory. Of these 70 per cent said they would support gay marriage.