Gay articles

Overview

Around the world, people are under ambush for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate chance to their existence, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or utterance and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can reach in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a profession or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also face suppression across the globe. 

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

• your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
• gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
• gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing
  
  

  March 02,

  The Epidemic of
  Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes

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  I used to get so delighted when the meth was all gone.

  This is my friend Jeremy.

  When you include it, he says, you have to keep using it. When it&#x;s gone, it&#x;s like, &#x;Oh nice, I can go endorse to my life now.&#x; I would stay up all weekend and move to these sex parties and then feel prefer shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.

  Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won&#x;t tell me the accurate circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.

  Jeremy is not the ally I was expecting to have this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the kind of guy who wears a serve shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. Today, when I ask him how the hospital&#x;s been so far,

  Diversity and Inclusion: Impacts on Psychological Wellbeing Among Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, Transgender, and Queer Communities

  Introduction

  Globally, schools play an essential role in enabling students to acquire college credentials and knowledge, become familiar with the culture, learn about interpersonal relationships, ideals, and standards, and develop survival skills and expertise abilities (Skovdal and Campbell, ). When individuals attend schools and colleges and receive a comprehensive education, their chances in life are improved. The people requires their expertise, and they are well equipped to work it. Given the many roles and advantages of education, educational facility environments need to be protective, stable, inclusive, and pleasant to all students to maximize study opportunities for everyone to guarantee that school goals are met. Regrettably, colleges and universities worldwide may not be a defended environment for LGBTQ students, who face intimidation, maltreatment, rejection, and other types of discrimination and exploitation (Poynter and Washington, ; Fields and Wotipka,
  
  

  LGBTQ+ rights

  • US Olympics officials softly bar trans women from competing in women’s sports

  • Irish Museum of Modern Art rejects censorship claims after Derek Jarman film cancellation

  • ‘It’s a madhouse’: US mention department workers reeling after Trump’s firings

  • ‘Queer people were living, loving, suffering, surviving – but invisible’: west Africa’s groundbreaking male lover novel 20 years on

  • Flashback

    Susie McCabe looks back: ‘I knew very preceding on that I was different from other girls. Everyone else did, too’’

  • Breaking the Binary: meet the founder behind a US theater company for transgender and non-binary artists

  • ‘Profound alarm’: US veterans agency roiled by fight over anti-discrimination provisions

  • I hate to be the scowling lesbian at the feast – but here’s what worries me about the new Austen adaptations

    Emma Brockes

  • Uniformed police officers were wrong to parade in Pride event, upper court rules

  • Gay man subjected to ‘exorcism’ at Sheffield church receives compensation

  • On Country: photography from Australia – in