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An Italian MP faces losing her seat in parliament for being elected under her birth name, and after claiming the rights to her true identity. The case involves Piera Aiello, the first anti-mafia witness elected to the Chamber of Deputies in Italy's history. For 27 years, Aiello lived in a secret location under an assumed name as part of a witness protection programme hiding her from the Mafia. But the 52-year-old, whose testimonies against the notorious crime syndicate led to dozens of...

A dying Tennessee man’s final wish will not be honored. Jessie Goodman says his dying father’s last wish is to have his funeral held at his childhood church, Lee’s Chapel Baptist Church in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Goodman, a hairstylist who is engaged to Brandon Smitty, told WTCV that when church leadership found out the gay couple would be involved in the funeral service, the pastor and some of its members refused to be a part of the funeral. “As long as I was...

Every child is an individual of its own and there are different things that take their interest and make them happy. As parents, the only thing you can do is support and respect their personality and give them all the love you can. Today we are talking about this mother-of-three from Essex that reveals how her middle child that’s 5-years-old loves using make-up and dresses and she is not planning to...

Moments of unity are increasingly rare in Britain’s fractured parliament, but one MP’s personal loss brought all sides together, and in doing so, may help countless families in their darkest moments. Carolyn Harris’ ascent to the corridors of Westminster is a far cry from the script politicos are so accustomed to reading. She wasn’t a student politician, nor a cashed-up lobbyist before being parachuted into a seat - she was a working Mum, trying to make ends meet for her...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to pick Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the secretary of labor, Politico reported on Thursday, citing three unnamed sources. Scalia would replace Alex Acosta in the role. Acosta announced he would step down last week. Source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, the oldest son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, to be secretary of labor. In a tweet on Thursday evening, Trump praised Scalia’s experience as a lawyer “with great experience working with labor and everyone else.” Politico first reported earlier on Thursday that Trump would likely tap Scalia for the role . Scalia, 55, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren told a room full of liberal activists on Saturday that the party needs to fully embrace polices such as higher taxes on the wealthy, wiping out student loan debt and criminal justice reform if they want to win the White House. The 70-year-old U.S. senator from Massachusetts said these ideas are not only supported by the activists gathered at the Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia, the largest annual gathering of...

A devout Christian mother walked her son down the aisle wearing a rainbow sash after a difficult time accepting his sexuality. Vanessa Hall is an author in Australia and she wrote about her son Lachlan on the website Love What Matters. His father died when he was eight-years-old, and the two are very close. He went to dance school and tried dating a girl for three years, but he eventually came out to his mother. She wrote that she had to know...

Is Farrah Fawcett’s son guilty of a homophobic attack? That’s what one gay man is saying in a lawsuit. Ken Fox, a gay man living in L.A. has filed a statement of damages against Redmond O’Neal for 100 million. According to The Blast, the statement of damages includes: $15 million: pain and suffering $15 million: emotional distress $200,000: medical expenses $1 million: future medical expenses $200,000: lost earnings to date $5 million: future lost earnings $1 million: attorneys’ fees ...

This legislation will protect LGBTI Americans ‘If I or any other LGBTQ person got in their car and drove from LA, where I am now, to DC, their rights could change depending on whatever states they drove through,’ Sam Greisman explains in a new video supporting the Equality Act. Greisman is the openly gay son of Oscar-winning actor Sally Field. The two teamed up with the Human Rights Campaign to advocate for the passage of the Equality Act. This legislation, recently re-introduced by...

The father has been sentenced to five years in prison and the stepmom to eight years for the historical abuse A British man has admitted he forced his son to have sex with his stepmom in an attempt to ensure he wasn’t gay. Richard Dowling admitted that he forced his then 11-year-old son, Daniel Dowling, to watch porn, have sex with his stepmom, and engage in threesomes with him and his stepmom. Daniel is now 36. He has waived his right...

Richard adopted his son in 2003 when the boy was five years old: the young man is now in the US Navy A gay dad has told parenting website Gays With Kids about his reaction to discovering his son getting a tattoo. Richard adopted his son, Jonathan, in 2005 in New Jersey when the boy was just aged five. At the time, Richard was in a long-term relationship with another man. The two men split up around four years ago and...

British Olympic diver Tom Daley and Hollywood producer/screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have announced the birth of their first child. The couple sharedwith the internet back in February that they were expecting to both celebration and disdain. While fans cheered, there were several conservatives who attacked the couple for planning to raise a child without a mother and having a child through surrogacy. All of that darkness and negativity didn’t stop the couple from loving their unborn child and the future they planed...

A father and step-mother forced their son to perform sexual acts with them in order to ‘stop him from becoming gay,’ a court has heard. The parents, who have not been named in order to protect the victim’s identity, were sentenced today (June 26) at Reading Crown Court. The case bears horrible similarities to one in the US, in which it was found in March that a man had ordered his girlfriend to rape his 11-year-old autistic son because he thought...