Stigmabase | North America

Penn courts LGBTQ prospective students through email mentor system  - In early April, around 200 accepted LGBTQ students and allies received emails from members of Penn's queer community, telling them about the wide ...

Hawaii bans insurance discrimination against transgender patients  - Insurance companies would not be allowed to discriminate against transgender patients under a bill passed by the Hawaii ...

Do you know your fair housing rights?  - Generally, LGBTQ persons are categorized into the protected classes of sexual orientation or gender identity making the discrimination illegal.

Pair of gay vultures decide to adopt an abandoned egg  - We haven't given a great deal of thought to gay vultures up until this very minute, when we read a report about a pair of gay vultures living in a German ...

Grindr date turns into vicious hate crime  - A New Zealand man claims he was robbed and beaten after an internet date went south and transformed into a violent attack. According to reports, the ...

HRC Participates in 40toNoneDay to Raise Awareness of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness  - Today, HRC is joining the True Colors Fund and other advocates across the country to raise public awareness about LGBTQ youth homelessness for ...

ChkChk serves LGBTQ -friendly fried chicken, but is it any good?: Cheap Eats  - Accordingly, ChkChk donates five percent of the restaurant's gross sales to the Q center, Portland's LGBTQ gay and lesbian nonprofit community ...

Charge laid after Pride flag burned during LGBTQ celebration at UBC  - A charge of mischief under $5,000 has been laid following the burning of a rainbow Pride flag at the University of British Columbia. Court documents ...

Having jailed parents can have lifelong effect on child's health  - Having a parent in jail can have lifelong effects on a child's health and ... The report found children with incarcerated parents are "significantly less ...

How lessons from history could reduce the 'immunisation gap'  - Could the activities of a group of teenagers in 1950s America inspire a fresh look at the effectiveness of pro-vaccine public health information ...

Inequality Will Get Worse Until There's a Revolution  - Among other things, maybe a presidential candidate railing against America's concentration of wealth. Except this time, it's not the 1 percent that owns ...

Inequality should matter to all of us  - The danger is that we slide towards a new political contract accidentally, without addressing the blindspot of the growing separation of the elite from ...

Mental health problems must be tackled  - I have lived long enough in China with my eyes and ears open to be able to say that China, like some other countries, is suffering from a silent disease  ...

Why are defence personnel seeking treatment for mental health issues in secret?  - Serving and former members of the Australian Defence Force say it's career suicide to admit having a mental health  ...

Mental health discussion aims to remove stigma, myths of mental illness  - The Kim Foundation, a organization dedicated to connecting people with mental health resources, and Active Minds at UNL, a recognized student ...

The Desperation for Mental Illness Treatment in the U.S.  - So many people in the United States are desperate for mental illness treatment. It's common for there not to be enough psychiatric beds in a hospital.