Stigmabase | North America

Northern Ireland's same-sex couples are still waiting to marry  - Both Sweeney and his fiancé 24-year-old Eoin McCabe, like many of Northern Ireland's younger LGBTQ people, have had a different experience to ...

Where Poetry Meets LGBTQ Youth Homelessness  - I FIRST MET Loma (a.k.a. Christopher Soto) in the midst of a poetry tour consisting entirely of trans writers traveling and reading their work across the ...

New Scholarships Will Help Queer Women Learn To Code, In Chicago And Beyond  - Queer women in tech and queer women aspiring to be in tech, take note: A new scholarship for LGBTQ -identified women to attend coding bootcamps ...

School issue is one of intolerance, not respect  - The “Day of Silence” aims to raise awareness of how many LGBTQ students feel they must be silent about their identity and experiences.

Baltimore mayor's LGBT liaison dies  - She makes my job easy by being a true ally to the LGBTQ community.” Mallisham was well liked within Baltimore's LGBT community. “Demetrius was ...

Choices that matter  - With his film on the struggles of the LGBTQ community winning him two National Awards, Nishant Roy Bombarde is 'dizzy with satisfaction'. Yogesh ...

Colton Haynes Speaks LGBTQ , 'Arrow', 'Teen Wolf After Coming Out  - Colton Haynes just came out gay and fans just fell in love, more. If there is a way to emphasize the term, please do. But apparently, the “Teen Wolf” ...

This Teen Learned To Accept His Sexuality And Gender 'In Different Ways'  - Elliot, a 16-year-old transgender teen, opens up about his journey in a new installment of public radio's only LGBTQ youth program, OutCasting. In this ...

Distraction is often a factor in teen drivers' rear-end collisions  - When a phone was the distraction, the reaction times of teen drivers were markedly slower, and about half the time they did not brake or steer to avoid the crash, researchers report in the Journal of Safety Research .  

Yeast infection linked to mental illness  - Infection with a common yeast can lead to mental health problems in some cases, according to new research. This is shown from analysis of patterns ...

Why people with mental illness shouldn't have access to medically assisted death  - Mark Henick, 29, is a mental - health advocate in Toronto. In the lead up to the introduction of Bill C-14, Henick launched a petition and wrote a letter to ...

As a person with mental illness , here's why I support medically assisted death  - Adam Maier-Clayton, 26, of Windsor, Ont., was a top student, athlete and self-described “alpha male.” But his deteriorating mental health has left him ...

No child should be exposed to hazardous substances, says Human Rights Watch  - One of the worst environmental health disasters occurred in 2011, when 400 children died in Nigeria from lead poisoning. Children were exposed to ...

Study Confirms Positive Effects Of Parental PDA On Children  - A new study reveals that parental PDA actually strengthens a child's health ! ... The research (via QZ) gathered information from asthmatic children ...

Study says kids of lesbians just as healthy as those of straight parents  -  Children of same-sex parents are just as healthy emotionally and physically as the children of different-sex parents, according to a recently published ...

Investing in trained midwives across Liberia  - Since the girl's pelvis was narrow and underdeveloped, an episiotomy was needed to ensure the baby could be delivered safely. As a result, a healthy  ...