Stigmabase | North America

OU alumus creates film in response to diversity, racism, LGBTQ controversies  - Stereotypes for minorities, women, the LGBTQ communities and majorities often pigeon-hole people, so Chapman chose to use comedy to bring these ...

Superheroes Get Progressive With LGBTQ Superteam THE PRIDE  - The superhero genre in comic books have taken steps to better represent the LGBTQ community, but an independent title called The Pride is doing it ...

LGBTQ Activists Rally Against Weakening MN Human Rights Act  - While the bill is not likely to pass, LGBTQ activists know this is not the same Minnesota legislature that legalized same-sex marriage just a few years ...

Yellowknife LGBTQ community wants more inclusive health care system  - A group working in Yellowknife to end homophobia, harassment and bullying says the health department needs to do a better job supporting the ...

Mumford & Sons to Donate Profits From Charlotte Show to LGBTQ Organization  - The law overturned a non-discrimination Charlotte ordinance that extended protections to the LGBTQ community. Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr ...

Boy George: 'I never wanted to be straight'  - It's something that happened, and sitting here worrying about whether it was the right thing and, 'Did I deserve it?' It happened. And I dealt with it.”.

In the Early 20th Century, America Was Awash in Incredible Queer Nightlife  - During the “Pansy Craze” from the 1920s until 1933, people in the lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer ( LGBTQ ) community were performing on stages in ...

Christian Privilege, Christian Fragility, and Religious Freedom  - Recent legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi suggests that the expectation of non-discrimination against LGBTQ people is an infringement on ...

Sex Education: How to talk to your teenager about sex  - Sex education is a very controversial topic in India especially after the health minister suggested in 2014 that it should be banned in schools and ...

Teen drinking: Who's trying alcohol sooner?  - Among the possible explanations, according to Cheng, is that drinking has become more socially acceptable. Also, because girls typically reach puberty sooner, some start engaging in risky behaviors such as drinking earlier. It might also be that younger girls are spending time with older boys, "so there is more exposure to drinking," she added.

Teen suicide crisis prompts extra mental health resources for Peel  - WA's new Mental Health Minister Andrea Mitchell says extra resources have been deployed in the Peel region in a bid to prevent more teenagers  ...

5 Things To Do To Help Ensure a Healthy Pregnancy  - Ensuring a healthy pregnancy is something that moms-to-be, as well as women hoping to get pregnant, should be doing if they want a healthy baby .

Teen suicide crisis: strategies failing children, say mental health advocates  - Current suicide prevention strategies and inadequate resources are failing to solve the tragedy of children in WA taking their own lives, youth mental ...

Where Do We Expect Black Children To Learn About Mental Health ?  - Millions of American's suffer from mental illness , but in our community there's a hush hush policy on the disease. While the signs can be overt as ...

When the disease is in the mind  - Calling in sick is something we all do, for anything from a bad cold to a fracture. But what if the reason is a mental disorder ? Will the company or ...

50 million years of work could be lost to mental illness by 2030, says World Health Organisation ...  - Around 12 billion working days – or 50 million years of work – will be lost to mental illness each year from now until 2030, according to a new report.