A baseball star has admitted being forced to delete tweets with anti-gay and racist slurs. Michael Kopech, a pitcher who made his Major League Baseball debut this week for the Chicago White Sox, called people “gay,” “n****” and “a Mexican rapist version of Super Mario” in the posts.
An estimated 3.2 million youth, aged 8-18, are LGBTQ in America, reported the Williams Institute. Studies have shown that this demographic of young people are more likely to use illicit drugs – more than two times more than their non-LGBTQ peers, according to Desert Hope. The addiction treatment program puts minority stress at fault for…
A Catholic conference on family issues that Pope Francis is due to address this weekend heard a plea from a U.S. priest on Thursday for the Church to welcome gay members, who he said had been made to feel like lepers. At the first major speech on the issue at the World Meeting of Families, which is organised by…
When dreaming of money, the first thing that comes to mind is a fabulous life. Yet, one privilege of being a self-made person is giving back and helping those without privileges. When thinking of LGBT activists, names like Madonna, RuPaul and Connor Franta come to mind. Rarely does…
The new communications director for the Salt Lake County, Utah, Republican Party says high rates of suicide among LGBTQ people are driven partly by “self-loathing” caused by an excessive number of sex partners — and he’s gay himself. Dave Robinson made the claim, along with remarks about HIV prevention drugs causing gay men to have sex like “bunny rabbits,”…
Recently Glassdoor.com, one of the top job and recruiting websites in the U.S., published their first workplace guide for LGBTQ professionals. The guide focused on how LGBTQ workers can embrace their authentic self while at work. Research indicates that 46% of LGBTQ employees have not revealed this identity to coworkers.
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