Stigmabase | North America

Texas sex education must become more LGBTQ -inclusive  - Time and time again, Texas lawmakers have been rightfully criticized for the state of abstinence-only sexual education in classrooms. However, the ...

Judge rules against couple in China's first same-sex marriage case - Sun Wenlin, center left, and his partner Hu Mingliang, center right, speak to journalists after a judge ruled against them in China's first gay marriage ...

Why Stories of LGBTQ Sexual Assault are Underreported  - They are among a larger group of LGBTQ -identified survivors of sexual assault who pass under the radar, their stories underrepresented in the media ...

Anyone Can Die?' TV's Recent Death Toll Says Otherwise  - Women of color, men of color, LGBTQ characters and white female characters have been killed off left and right. None of that's new for TV, but the ...

How to debunk the religious right's transgender scare tactics  - Even folks who normally express support for LGBTQ rights are buying into the specious arguments the religious right is pushing – because they don't ...

Half of all people are carrying the 'gay gene'  - In layman’s terms, this means so-called “gay genes” are continuously passed down through the generations in spite of the fact that homosexuals are still relatively unlikely to have children.

Businesses ask Tennessee to kill anti-trans bathroom bill  - Dozens of business leaders have signed a letter asking Tennessee lawmakers to kill a piece of legislation known as the transgender bathroom bill.

The Myth of the Progressive Capitalist  - Shortly before Charlotte's city council voted to extend its long-standing nondiscrimination ordinance to cover the LGBTQ community last month, Mayor ...

Children of older mothers healthier , taller and more educated: study  - Findings from a new European study suggest that children of older mothers are healthier , taller and tend to be more educated than children born to ...

What I Wish Others Knew About Love and Children in Foster Care  - As foster parents, we can protect the child from harm, provide a safe and ... Your love as a foster parent is quite essential to the child's health , well ...

A little PDA between parents could be good for kids ' health  - Multiple studies have shown that conflict-filled marriages can have negative effects on kids ' behavior, mental health , and physical well-being.

Southern California's reduction in smog linked to major improvement in children's health  - The finding expands on the landmark USC Children's Health Study, which a year ago reported that kids' lungs had grown stronger over the past 20 ...

Inequality in U.S. should be addressed  - The focus of the U.S. presidential campaign is on the economy, especially on how to tackle widening inequality in the United States. How does Joseph ...

Vets with mental illness deserve support  - Troublingly, this often means those who leave military service as a result of combat-related trauma abandoned to deal with their mental health issues ...

How Abuse, Bullying, Trauma, Mental Disorders , Addiction, and Prejudice ...  - Haslam similarly argues that the concepts of abuse, trauma, mental disorder , addiction, and prejudice have been expanded and now typically get ...

LSD offers therapeutic benefits for mental disorders : groundbreaking research  - Researchers studying the effects of LSD say the powerful drug has therapeutic potential for psychiatric disorders . For the first time, the effects of the ...