Stigmabase | North America

117 Ways to Describe LGBTQ Identity  - For the past year, I have been asking LGBTQ neighbors throughout Western Pennsylvania to contribute their personal stories to a blog project titled ...

LGBT activists oppose Guilford Green Foundation's hiring of mayor  -  As part of her position she would spearhead and lead the effort for the LGBTQ center in Greensboro as a person who is not part of our community," ...

That's Not What It's Like In The World: Vogue Balls and Calgary's LGBTQ Community  - Vogueing serves as an entry into the rich history of LGBTQ people of colour. They created spaces and communities for themselves in a world that ...

Gay Porn Mogul Michael Lucas Denounces anti-Israel LGBTQ Protest as anti-Semitic  - After BDS activists disrupt Jewish event at Chicago LGBTQ conference, Russian-born Jewish porn star says protest was 'pure anti-Semitism' and ...

Indiana businesses fear backlash over gay rights bill's failure   - Businesses across Indiana are participating in campaigns to let LGBT customers know they're welcome, but it might not be enough to completely heal ...

Pete Nowalk to Receive Prestigious LGBTQ Community Award at Point Foundation New York Gala  - Point Foundation, the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit, has used the grand setting of the library in recent ...

Where Indiana ranks nationally in LGBTQ healthcare  - It's intended to measure how well healthcare providers can service the needs of the LGBTQ community. The following are the criteria for how each is ...

Healthcare in the closet  - This is the reality for thousands of LGBTQ Hoosiers, and it was the case for Dustin and Jordan Nowaskie. The two moved back to Indiana after living ...

Schizophrenia, The Stigmatized Mental Illness : Psychologist Argues Could Be Better To View ...  - A prominent Dutch researcher makes the case for reconsidering schizophrenia as part of a "psychosis susceptibility syndrome," rather than a distinct ...

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Target of Health Education Partnership  - The Will County Health Department and Valley View School District 365U are preparing to launch a five-year health -education partnership targeting ...

Is the 'African' mentality about weight enabling child obesity on the continent?  - Presently, Africa has almost twice the number of obese children under five years old than it did in 1990, according to a report by the World Health  ...

Keeping your child's mouth healthy  - February is National Children's Dental Health Month, an opportunity for parents of toddlers, young children or teenagers to explore questions about ...

Largest LGBT lobby group, HRC, will continue using resources in primary races  - The nation's largest LGBT advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, has pledged to continue to use its resources in order to support ...

An LGBT champion we can count on -  After poring over candidates' records and proposals focused on LGBT issues, the Human Rights Campaign — a group that I have avidly supported but ...

I went back to my old school to say: I'm gay  - Tim Ramsey never dared come out at his all-boys grammar while a pupil. Now he's looking for volunteers to reassure other LGBT teenagers they are ...

LGBT Chamber of Commerce confident of impact on 2016 vote  - But to encourage participation among the candidates, the LGBT Chamber of Commerce offered a solution. #LGBTVotePH will be a “reverse forum,” where candidates need only to come and show up with questions, not answers. The community will answer.