Stigmabase | North America

LGBTQ+ comic books blast away lazy stereotypes with awesome superheroes  - A comic book series featuring LGBTQ+ superheroes is to be published following a successful Kickstarter campaign. The Pride's plot ...

Snap A Shot And See A Hidden LGBTQ Ally Message  - Middle school and high school students are presented with tough social challenges on a daily basis. Toronto Pflag, an LGBTQ advocacy group, ...

Corporate opposition to LGBTQ discrimination laws shows the GOP alliance has shattered  - Since the late 1970s, the American conservative movement has been an uneasy -- and unstoppable -- alliance of big-business-friendly finance ...

Indiana pastor says ex-prisoners are more discriminated against than LGBTQ community  - While members of the LGBTQ community have expressed support for the ordinance, Heartland Christian Center Pastor Phil Willingham said there ...

LGBTQ guidelines not mandatory  - At least one Airdrie school is unsure whether the Province's guidelines spelling out how students with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities ...

James Franco: 'I'm a little gay'  - Ostensibly to promote his upcoming gay-themed film King Cobra, this week James Franco tells New York magazine that he's “a little gay.” He also ...

The North Carolina bathroom bill could trigger a health crisis among transgender youth, research ...  - Andrew Reynolds is a professor of political science and the director of the LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative at the University of ...

Head to Head: Are bathroom bills beneficial or unnecessary?  - Most of these new bills, which typically give private businesses the capacity to discriminate against LGBTQ folks, have masqueraded as so-called ...

Most US adults say today's children have worse health than in past generations  - The dominant view from this poll is that children's health is worse today than it was for generations past, and we need to more urgently address these ...

How You Treat Someone With a Mental Illness  - What if you have a mental illness and you are in the throes of a bad depressive, manic, psychotic (out of touch with reality) episode? And what if your ...

Mental Health Issues Affect 26% of Americans: WHO To Address Mental Disorders  - Mental health issue is not rare as 26 percent of Americans who are 18 years old and above are living with diagnosable mental disorder. Even famous celebrities like Catherine Zeta Jones and Mel Gibson are battling with bipolar disorder.

Up 1000% - No Positive Effect on Smoking Rate  - But while e-cigarette use among teens has increased by around 1,000% in just four ... This is something that has health authorities deeply concerned.

How to ease teen anxiety  - I take a supplement for teenage girls [Power Teen For Her, £17.80 for a ... comes from the authors' experience as patients and health professionals.

Mentally Ill Indonesians 'Living in Hell'  - Pasung is the isolation of a person suffering from some sort of mental health problem. They might be held separate from others, either inside or outside ...

Burnout and depression': the doctors struggling with their mental health  - Research suggests eight out of 10 doctors in England have experienced mental health issues. Here, some of those who are suffering tell their story.

Understanding Mental Health with Doc Ayomide: Clarifying Misconceptions About the Inheritance ...  - In most mental disorders , it's nothing like that. Number one, there's almost never a single gene that the disorder can be traced to. Often it's many genes ...