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Oklahoma Senate votes no to bill regarding LGBTQ community

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, March 26, 2017

Oklahoma Senate votes no to bill regarding LGBTQ community
- Breechen's bill would have stripped employment and public accommodation protections for the LGBTQ community from municipalities around the ...

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One of Europe's 'biggest and oldest' gay clubs files for insolvency

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, August 05, 2025

One of Europe's 'biggest and oldest' gay clubs 'on the brink' after filing for insolvency ... An image of a DJ deck with people dancing under coloured ... View article...

Inequality metrics don't capture India's reality

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Lack of data, gaps in surveys, and analyses that leave out both the wealthy and the most vulnerable distort the level of inequality in India . View article...

Why are people transvestigating this 1930s gay icon?

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Just like gay icons don't have to be gay , trans icons don't have to be trans. All they have to be is courageous, outspoken, and an advocate for LGBTQ+ ... View article...

Court finds voting system NOT illegally racist or sexist. Plus, our travel ban challenge.

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, August 14, 2025

Plus we tell you about a decision that found first-past-the-post voting is not unconstitutionally racist or sexist. Stories and cases discussed in ... View article...

Boston area sees growing interest in sober LGBTQ+ events, spaces

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, August 14, 2025

Emma Whitney and her friends struggled to find LGBTQ +-friendly events that didn't revolve around drinking or using substances . So the team of ... View article...

African nation bans homosexuality with threats of prison terms and fines

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Burkina Faso's parliament has passed a law banning homosexuality , with people facing two to five years in prison, the state broadcaster reported ... View article...

University of Edinburgh reviews historic links to slavery and racism

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, August 05, 2025

The research has highlighted often lesser-known accounts of the university's historical ties to slavery and colonialism, the legacy of racist ... View article...

How 'pervasive' is racism in health care? This B.C. researcher gathers the stories of Black ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, August 14, 2025

Ashley Wilkinson has found racism is an ongoing challenge in health-care settings in Canada , which is why the PhD candidate at the University of ... View article...

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Vermont state senator says he hasn't decided if he'll resign over racist Young Republicans chat

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

Orleans County Sen. Samuel Douglass, whose participation in a racist Young Republican group chat has spurred calls from across the political spectrum ... View article...

Ageing and Dying in the LGBTQI Community

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

Members of the LGBTQI community face unique, often invisible challenges when it comes to ageing ... View article...

Racist AI Fantasies Are Spreading on China's Internet

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

Racist AI Fantasies Are Spreading on China's Internet. Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices. View article...

Church of Norway apologises to LGBTQ+ community for past discrimination

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

Olav Fykse Tveit, the leading bishop of the Church of Norway, stands in Rainbow Street outside the London pub, before giving a speech in which he ... View article...

Samina Ansari: Building anti-racist workplaces starts with honest conversations

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

PATH (Scotland) CEO Samina Ansari shares reflections from a workshop on promoting anti- racism in the housing sector, and encourages future ... View article...

After racist Kansas Young Republicans chats leak, Gov. Kelly calls out posts from state GOP

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

"Her party calls everything racist and sexist, desensitizing people to those terms and making it almost impossible to be believed when racism and ... View article...

JDV dismisses criticism of Young Republicans' offensive group chat

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 16, 2025

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has dismissed criticism of a Young Republican group chat that included racist slurs, jokes about rape and flippant ... View article...

LGBTQ youth face growing mental health crisis, study finds

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, October 20, 2025

Still, one in five LGBTQ youth did not seek help from anyone during suicidal crises. “This report provides one of the first, and only, national-scale ... View article...

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