Rod Stewart, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singers, is still current with his new DNCE co-release. What many don’t know is 40 years ago he wrote the first pop song to address gay rights.
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Section 377, which criminalises homosexuality, could finally be relegated to the history books.
In 25 years of the Premier League, things have changed, but it’s an ongoing battle.
The media has the power to influence the nation - so why are we letting it promote blatant homophobia?
Pride Month: It’s time to talk about the shockingly high rate of suicide among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stories in the Still Here project document the complex reasons.
Many people use religion and culture as explanations for their homophobic attitudes.
The continued presence of homophobic attitudes in society and the workplace has been eroding the productivity and profitability of Australian businesses.
Sexual equality should not be mere letters and words in laws. Rather, people - in this case student teachers - must understand sexual equality as a lived reality.
How to make campus safer for LGBTQ students.
A scholar says bullying prevention programs fail to recognize that sexual harassment could be related to bullying.
Millions of women felt insulted by Donald Trump’s language toward women. Others overlooked it, seeing the female candidate as flawed. Here’s why this might suggest a growing health crisis for women.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
Recent data on football’s homophobia problem met with both optimism and pessimism. What’s really going on?
For a global audience, the movie ‘A United Kingdom’ provides a topical account of race relations. The love story is likely to revitalize the popular viewpoint of Botswana as a national success story.
It is now recognized within public health that discrimination causes significant health problems for the LGBTQ community.
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen’s father has denounced homosexuality, while many say Mateen secretly grappled with his own sexuality. Here’s what the research says on the relationship between parents’ attitudes, being closeted and being homophobic.
Times are changing … but far too slowly.
For every advance in LGBT rights that is made in one part of the world, there are extreme regressions elsewhere.
The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
In our modern understanding of terror, Islamic extremism seems to trump everything else. This is a mistake.
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Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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