Stigmabase | North America

5 reasons why Trump reflects the modern Republican party (even though they deny it)  - The only good thing about the Donald Trump presidential campaign, which racked up two more wins Saturday, is that it surfaces all the ugliness that ...

High school students charged after brutal attack on 'No Gay Thursday'  - Three seniors at a northern Philadelphia high school have been arrested after a vicious locker room assault. The football players are accused of ...

Buffalo Is The Most Anti-Gay City -- Based On Number Of Anti-Gay Tweets, That Is  - Tweets containing such words could very well originate from within the LGBTQ community and reflect “in-group reclamation,” which is when someone ...

Aligarh' Sheds Light on LGBTQ Rights in India  - Hansal Mehta's Aligarh tells the story of Professor Siras, a gay faculty member of an Indian University prosecuted and persecuted for his sexuality.

Annual LGBTQ Conference Highlights Safe Spaces, Religion  - Roughly 300 scholars, professionals, and students from both Harvard and around the world attended the third annual LGBTQ Conference, hosted at ...

New Taiwanese McCafé ad centers around touching coming out story  - A brand new ad by McCafé that revolves around a moving and sophisticated coming-out story has earned the wrath of Taiwanese religious ...

Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94 in California  -  Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president — and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease — has died. She was 94.

The danger of the 'Acceptable Trans People' narrative  - At the many queer and trans* community events I attend, I'm often encouraged to tell “my story.” I've stopped doing that, however. I've stopped ...

Outmoded workforce planning poses risk to child health  - Out-of-date workforce planning poses a risk to child health , lead paediatricians have warned. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health  ...

Why you should stop judging addicts  - Addiction GP Julian Fidge characterises addiction as “a common, debilitating psychiatric condition ”. This assessment is supported in The Diagnostic ...

Deciding on assisted death in context of mental illness highly complex, experts say  - One of the most contentious issues sparked by Canada's upcoming right-to-die legislation is whether people with mental illness should be eligible to ...

Teen girls see big drop in chemical exposure with switch in cosmetics  - The results, published today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, came from a study of 100 Latina teenagers participating in the Health  ...

Boy told he'd have to go blind before health system would pay for sight-saving surgery  - The parents of a 13-year-old boy were forced to pay thousands of dollars for eye surgery or wait until their son was legally blind before the public ...

Fife survey shows link between teen interaction and health  - A survey of Fife high school pupils has revealed interesting information about group identifications and its effects on teenagers smoking, drinking and ...

Teen risky behavior changing; fewer smoking, more texting and driving  - While risky behavior in many traditional areas is dropping, new kinds of dangerous behavior are now part of teen life. Almost half the teens surveyed ...

Teen who posed as a doctor ordered to get mental health evaluation  - After appearing in court on Wednesday, Love-Robinson was granted supervised release and was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.