Stigmabase | North America

How do You Come Out and Tell Your Folks that You're not Straight?  - I feel proud to be in the LGBTQ community. But I am worried about my family. I have parents and an extended family. I want to open up to my family.

L.A. Pride Exposes a Generational Divide in the LGBT Community  - Millennials and seniors are not represented in that body. If they are going to present Pride for the entire LGBTQ community, they need to reflect that.”.

Why LGBTQ People Don't Get the Mental Health Care They Deserve  - A blogger for The Orbit, Christina said that talking about mental health in the LGBTQ community has improved in recent years. But stigma still haunts ...

Davey Wavey And Other LGBTQ YouTubers Have An Inspirational Message For Pride Month  - Thankfully, your favorite YouTubers came together to make a cute and LGBTQ -positive video about why they love being gay! Davey Wavey brought ...

7 LGBTQ YouTube Channels To Follow To Bring Some Rainbow Goodness To Your Video Feed  - In my experience, LGBTQ YouTube serves two functions: One, it acts as an outlet for YouTube personalities; whether they're a trans man struggling to ...

Scotland cop croons "I Will Survive" after breaking up gay bar brawl  - It may sound like a scene from one of the Naked Gun movies, but cell phone video from Scotland proves it really happened: one of the cops ...

9 bathroom myths about trans people debunked  - Right wing politicians, commentators have trotted out all sorts of reasons why discriminating against transgender people should be perfectly legal.

What it's really like to be transgender in Thailand  - Doy Nakpor is a Thai transgender woman activist, who has over 15 year experience in trans advocacy. After her university graduation, Doy joined M ...

What All Students Need to Know About Mental Health in the Midst of the UCLA Shooting  - That same source has also said that Sarkar was known to have mental health problems, including depression and problems with studying. However ...

Phone-obsessed parents putting their children at risk, safety charity warns  - New research by the Child Accident Prevention Trust found almost a quarter of parents have been engrossed in their devices when their child had suffered an accident or had a near miss.

Is child poverty finally declining in N.J.?  - Most of the statistics contained in the annual report measuring child health , stability and well-being indicate life is getting better for kids on the ...

Are Americans really living on $2 a day?  - Christopher Jencks is an important commentator on American social policy. For years, the Harvard sociologist has written about poverty in America  ...

3 Ways to Tell Someone Is Serious About Evidence-Based Policy  - Following up on this rhetoric—in a series of hearings and bills with a stated purpose to address poverty in America —the House majority has been ...

Can we function with this mental illness ?  - Yet at the moment, we are trapped in both antics and seemingly serious business that suggest a national collective mental illness . If this was one ...

Nation is suffering from a mental illness  - Yet at the moment we are trapped in both antics and seemingly serious business that suggest a national collective mental illness . Consider a few ...

Teens and parents urged to challenge celebrities shilling for unhealthy products  - Marie Bragg of the department of population health at New York University School of Medicine and her colleagues found 81 per cent of 26 endorsed ...