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The study was produced by LGBT Youth Scotland

Report highlights Scotland's "invisible" gay youth

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans youth in Scotland are neglected due to a lack of knowledge among professionals, a report claims.

Alan Cumming is to be honoured by the US gay community

Cumming hailed as inspiration to gay youth

Award-winning actor Alan Cumming is to be honoured by the US gay community after The Trevor Project called him an "inspiration" to youngsters.

Swedish Foreign Minster Carl Bildt has condemned violence against homosexuals

Sweden warns Moldova over LGBT rights

Swedish Foreign Minster Carl Bildt has condemned the violence against homosexuals during the Moldova Pride Festival and demanded that Moldavian government upholds the rights of its LGBT people.

The Australian Democrats have accused opposition parties of homophobia

Australian Senate delays gay equality legislation

The Australian Democrats have accused opposition parties of homophobia after they used their Senate majority to delay legislation on same-sex discrimination.

The Kampang School came up with the idea of the unisex toilet after a survey conducted last term showed that more than 200 of the school's 2,600 students considered themselves transvestites

Thai school introduces special bathrooms for trans students

A secondary school in north eastern Thailand has designed a new bathroom for its growing community of transvestites.

The groups warmly welcomed the news and congratulated President Barroso and the EC on their consistent commitment to quality for all

EU confirms sexual orientation will be included in discrimination directive

Commissioner Jacques Barrot confirmed today that the European Commission will propose a cross-cutting directive aimed at combating LGBT discrimination.

Focusing on women's health, the survey asked questions in regards to health checks, drugs, smoking, alcohol and obesity

Groundbreaking survey accuses NHS of failing lesbian and bisexual women

The NHS has failed to provide adequate care and information for the lesbian and bisexual female community, a recent survey shows.

In conjunction to the Pride month, SSN has launched a June campaign to raise £12,800 to fund their efforts

Straight Spouse Network to 'come out' during US Pride Month

Straight spouses of the LGBT community have taken Gay Pride Month to come out of their own closet.

Oxford Pride is changing the route of it's first ever parade to start at the

2008: A year of Pride

PinkNews.co.uk takes a glance at the at the various Pride events taking place around the UK in 2008

The bishop's statement may echo the sentiments of the majority of the Catholic Church, such the Pope Benedict XVI, but not all within the church agrees

Bishops renew opposition to gay marriage as it is not "faithful, exclusive or lasting"

Catholic bishops have yesterday renewed their opposition to gay marriage, stating that sexual differentiation is intrinsic to the Catholic's understanding of the sacrament of marriage.

According to UNAIDS, the global standard-bearer in the fight against HIV, 74 countries are subjecting HIV carriers to restrictive measures

UNAIDS summit calls for end of travel restrictions for HIV+ people

UN chief Ban Ki Moon has called for an end to discrimination against people with AIDS, including travel restrictions imposed on them by some countries.

The new application is in connection with the June 27th picketing in front of the representation of the European Commission in Moscow last year

Moscow Gay Pride organisers seek compensation for human rights breaches

Moscow Gay Pride organisers have sent their third application to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg against Russia, seeking a £24,000 compensation for the breaches of their human rights.

Since the 1950s, the island's autocratic government has managed to transform the fishing village to a global, modern city

Comment: How the biggest threat to gay communities in Singapore is not just the legal system

Singapore is a tiny island state which has managed cramped 4.6 million people into her lands. Although it is sandwiched between Muslim countries, the country has a Chinese majority, but also supports a healthy proportion of Malays, Indians and others (which includes the Whites).

The massive collection contains 250,000 press cuttings, clippings from gay magazines dating back as far as 1950s, collection of Irish lesbian and gay films, and an extensive photo collection

Irish Queer Archive donates 'massive collection' to the National Library of Ireland

The National Lesbian and Gay Federation (NLGF) has today formally handed over the Irish Queer Archive (IQA) to the National Library of Ireland (NLI).

These studies imply that the brains of the gay men have functional similarities to those of a straight women, and that homosexuality is not of a moral choice, but one of biological substrate

Homosexuals found to have 'different brain structure' in new study

Scientists have recently found that the brains of homosexuals have structural and functional differences from those of their straight counterparts.

















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