Stigmabase | North America

Equality Texas launches campaign to fight LGBT discrimination  - Equality Texas, the largest statewide organization solely dedicated to securing full equality for LGBT Texans, joined State Sen. Jose Rodriguez and ...

Cyndi Lauper Meets With LGBTQ Youth in Raleigh on Impact of North Carolina's Discriminatory HB2  - Today, award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and LGBTQ equality advocate Cyndi Lauper met with LGBTQ youth at the LGBT Center of Raleigh ...

Edmonton man hopes rainbow-coloured bench creates safe space for LGBTQ people  - “For a lot of LGBTQ people, it can be nerve-wracking to showcase signs of public affection. This is designed to show support that it is okay to be ...

Leader of Honduras' gay community abducted, murdered -  A leader in Honduras' gay community has been buried several days after he was kidnapped and killed in the city of ...

Gay-bashing, Obama-trashing, trans-banning, gorilla-loving comments  - LGBTQNation readers know that even with our fair share of opponents spouting off, our comments section provides dialogue, discussion, fabulously ...

Lack of police reporting undercuts national hate crimes count  - The knock on the door, strong and quick, jolted Barbara Hicks Collins awake. It was the middle of the night. Someone must be ...

Russian crime gangs find gay men easy targets  - A St. Petersburg economist, one of their latest victims, said several men burst into the apartment where he was meeting his date. Claiming that his date was under age, they threatened to call the police and to release a video they had secretly filmed unless he paid up.

LGBTQ People Will 'Revitalize Christianity'  - In a recent essay in Salon Magazine, the Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman argues for the power of “queer virtue” to combat “heteronormativity” and ...

Good sex ed doesn't lead to teen pregnancy, it prevents it  - The World Health Organisation agrees, arguing we all have a right to “a ... about sex and relationships can lead to promiscuity, teenage pregnancy, ...

US teen births fall again, another drop in decades of decline  -  Teen pregnancies fell again last year, to another historic low, a government report shows. "The continued decline is really quite ...

Those living with mental disorders often find catharsis in substance abuse  - When it comes to a mental illness of any kind, the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality and the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health show 16.05 percent of Nevada’s population is affected.

Pneumonia, diarrhoea key causes of child mortality'  -  Health Services Director General Mukhtar Hussain Syed chaired a meeting of the Provincial Child Survival Group in this regard on Wednesday.

Study Reveals Which Food Will Improve Health Of Unborn Child  - A new study shows that eating the right food can have a significant impact on your child's health . In this week's health matters, Maggie Poteau ...

My 13-year-old is smoking marijuana. What do I do?  - Clearly you have questions about marijuana, be it a legal concern, a health ... “Many teens feel peer pressure to use marijuana since they believe ...

Study shows how teen brains react to social media  - A new study has found that when teenagers see large numbers of "likes" on their own photos on social networks, the same areas of the brain are ...

How to talk to your teen about mental health  - It is not always easy to talk to an individual regarding mental health . Most parents of teenagers will say it is difficult speaking to a teen . It is possible to ...