Stigmabase | North America

How Texas' Foster Care System is Failing LGBTQ Youth  - Kristopher Sharp (left) and his partner Kahlib Barton. Sharp grew up mostly in foster care institutions, in part because he was identified as gay when he ...

Mormons and Gays: Where Are We Now?  - venues including the ongoing partnership with the Utah Pride Center called Utah LGBTQ Stories as well as the upcoming documentary The Kitchen ...

High school coach resigns after three football players violate 14-year-old boy with broomstick on ...  - On Thursday, Philadelphia's Tredyffrin/Easttown School District released a letter announcing coach John Vogan's resignation, according to ...

Bathroom phobias trans and non-binary people think you should actually have  - leading nonprofits dedicated to ending violence in LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities, to discuss the bathroom hysteria sweeping the nation.

Business leaders oppose Missouri religious objections bill  - Top executives from some of the St. Louis area's largest companies said Friday that Missouri's proposed religious freedom law ...

Massachusetts AG presses for transgender rights bill  -  For Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, few Beacon Hill fights feel quite as personal as the stalled effort to toughen civil ...

Ellen Page and Ian Daniel explore gay cultures in new travel documentary series  - Viceland's Gaycation follows actress Ellen Page and her best friend, filmmaker Ian Daniel as they make their way across the world exploring LGBTQ  ...

Obama, why are you doing this to us?  - I mean, yes, Obama has been giving us “I love this man so much” moments for many years now; moments when we felt we were in the presence of a ...

Mental Illness Is For White People?  - Another example of the impact of mental illness was portrayed in an episode of the Fox drama “Empire,” when Andre, the eldest son of Lucious and ...

Marijuana Addiction Is Real; Cannabis Use Disorder Affects 6 Million Americans, Few Receive ...  - Although there's a lot of conflicting evidence regarding the effects cannabis has on health — especially mental health — many of its consumers ...

1 in 7 Kids Under 9 Have a Psychological Diso...  - Parental mental health problems and child-care problems were also commonly associated with mental, behavioral and developmental disorders in ...

Stop! Are You Giving Your Children Cough and Cold Medications?  - Most young parents are unaware of the ill-effects of these medications on their child's health . Since most adults commonly use them when suffering ...

Mental disorder , family troubles led to farmer suicides: Maharathy  - Bhubaneswar: Consumption of alcohol, mental disorder , disturbed family life and domestic issues are the major reasons behind the death of 174 ...

Top American psychiatrists to Indonesia: LGBT as mental disorder not backed up by science  - But the idea that being LGBT is a mental disorder that can be “cured” is simply not backed up by modern science, as detailed in a new letter from the ...

Gay teen was forced to wear backpack full of rocks for 18 hours a day to 'cure' sexuality  - The World Health Organization, as well as several mainstream health groups across the globe, agrees that gay 'cure' therapy does not work and is ...

Teen cannabis use at lowest level since 1980s: study  - That's just one finding from a comprehensive study, Health Behaviours of School-Aged Children, examining the health behaviours of kids from grades ...