While the league has taken steps to make baseball more welcoming for LGBTQ employees and fans, no active player has come out.
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Among the more than 20,000 men who have played major league baseball, not one has publicly come out of the closet while still in uniform.
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Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
HIV stigma manifests in many ways, including microaggressions that could lead to a higher risk of depression, PTSD and suicidality.
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Microaggressions are more subtle than outright discrimination. But they can directly affect HIV treatment outcomes.
After Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib came out as gay, his jersey became a top-seller on Fanatics, an online retailer of sportswear.
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The quest to combat discrimination against LGBTQ athletes has been long and fitful, particularly in male team sports.
The passage of a bill cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights in Hungary has sparked waves of protests.
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A new anti-LGBTQ+ law in Hungary is populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s tactic for securing support ahead of elections.
Students generally become more appreciative of sexual diversity during college.
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A survey of over 3,000 students found that how much students’ appreciation of gay, lesbian and bisexual people increased during college varied by their school’s religious affiliation.
Protesters in Michigan, USA, come out in support of LGBT+ rights.
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Is it even possible to respect faith leaders’ desires to uphold the harmful practice while outlawing it?
While professional sports franchises have become more socially conscious, LGBTQ fans and players aren’t exactly embraced with open arms.
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Half of LGBTQ participants in a recent study experienced discrimination, insults, bullying or abuse while playing, watching or talking about sports.
Mental illnesses are usually a function of systemic factors on an individual, but Bell’s national awareness campaign doesn’t focus on that.
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The annual Bell Let’s Talk campaign is shaping national conversations on mental health. But the campaign materials focus on individuals rather than the role of systemic oppression.
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A new survey shows that while younger men generally had more progressive views than older men on gender roles, they also endorsed such ideas as men’s use of violence and control in relationships.
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Despite same-sex relations being criminal, social media is a space to come out and speak back to homophobia for the Nigerian tweeters in the study.
A memorial to Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi in Amsterdam, June 19, 2020.
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Rejected by their countries but seen as outsiders in the West, queer and trans Muslims often live in limbo. The mental health costs of alienation can be severe, says a scholar of Islam and sexuality.
Korean health workers offer coronavirus testing in the Itaewon nightlife district of Seoul.
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South Korea’s mass surveillance to curb the coronavirus pandemic uses technologies and techniques that are grounded in anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
The zoom-bombing of online meetings, classes and social events reflect a disturbing trend.
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Zoom-bombing disrupts people’s use of the Zoom platform for work, study and socializing. Zoom-bombing events have included racist and misogynist attacks on users.
Many boys will be happy to avoid the culture of the school locker room during the coronavirus.
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The extended COVID-19 social isolation could be an opportunity for parents to have an impact on how boys are schooled in masculinity.
Volunteers spray disinfectant in the Itaewon district of Seoul after a cluster of cases linked to its nightclubs.
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Seoul has a bustling queer community, but LGBTQ+ people in South Korea face ongoing stigma.
Pride parade in London 2017.
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One in three Polish people believe in a ‘gender conspiracy’, according to new reserach.
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The book is a departure from despair and crippling homophobia. It records the experiences of people who refuse to be hopeless victims.
The social pressures to be ‘straight’ and ‘cis’ can be overwhelming for LGBTQ+ people, especially youth. Adding conversion therapy to the criminal code of Canada is a good first step to supporting them.
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The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
An activist poses for the camera outside Botswana High Court which ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in June 2019.
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Predominant public sentiment remains largely anti-homosexual and overshadows constitutionally guaranteed rights in Africa.