Stigmabase | North America

Transgender Women Wait Longer Than Transgender Men to Come Out  - A new study, LGBTQ in America, released by Match.com found that transgender women wait the longer to come out than anyone in the LGBTQ  ...

Our Tomorrow: Longing for a Movement That Leaves No One Behind  - In a national conversation about the future of the LGBTQ movement, many LGBTQ Americans said there was more work to be done after the June ...

LGBTQ Summit on Sustainability  -  LGBTQ Summit on Sustainability. OUT for Sustainability hosts the country's only conference to define and explore environmental values in the LGBTQ  ...

There's Now a Jewish Dating App That Matches Gay Men With Lesbian Women  - Ron Yosef, an activist who founded the Israeli LGBTQ organization Hod for religious Jews, told Mic he knows Eran but has mixed feelings about his ...

Bachelorette Beauty Services' Is the Queer Friendly Salon Taking On the Beauty Industry  - But the reality for LGBTQ individuals can be incredibly different. In a world largely built on reinforcing aesthetic and gender expectations like glossy ...

What Brands Need to Know About Marketing to LGBTQ Audiences  - At the same time, LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) rights are under fire in a number of states like North Carolina and Mississippi, ...

LGBTQ Task Force Speaks Out Against Freddie Gray Decision  - Our thoughts and prayers are with Freddie Gray's family, friends and community. Police-related killings of young black men have become a regular ...

LGBTQ singles are split on marriage, kids and dating someone who's transgender  - For six years, Match has conducted a big survey of singles in America. And for the first time, they've done a separate survey of over 1,000 LGBTQ  ...

Multiple personality disorder may be rooted in traumatic experiences  - Multiple personality disorder, more recently known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), is thought to affect approximately one percent of the general population, similar to levels reported for schizophrenia.

Educate your teen about safe alcohol use  - Teaching our teens how to handle alcohol in a healthy and reasonable way is an important step to helping them to become responsible young men ...

Exam stress linked to teen suicide  - These include having experienced bereavement, relationship problems or breakdown; having long-term physical health problems, including asthma ...

Experts Have Been Studying Income Inequality for Decades. Has Anything Changed?  - In an effort to comprehend the experience of impoverished families struggling to survive and hold onto their homes, sociologist Matthew Desmond moved into a trailer park and a rooming house in two blighted areas of Milwaukee. During 2008 and 2009, he documented the stories of eight families

Teen pregnancy decreases in New Mexico  - In recognition of May as Teen Pregnancy Awareness Month, officials with the New Mexico Department of Health encouraged parents and teens to get ...

Program Combines Early Literacy and Healthy Eating  - Not only do kids participating in Read It and Eat learn how to read and get to take a book home with them, they also get to eat something made in the ...

Indonesian child tobacco workers are risking their health  -  Children are being put to work on tobacco plantations in Indonesia that supply some of the world's biggest cigarette companies, putting their health at ...

The effects of sibling bullying on your child's health  - Bullies aren't always on the playground; sometimes they're in your own home. Up to 40 percent of children have been bullied by siblings, with lasting ...