Stigmabase | North America

The Jordanian magazine defying stereotypes about gays in the Muslim world  - “Throughout the years, many readers have asked us to publish in Arabic, commenting that as one of the first LGBT+ publications in the [Middle East and North Africa] region, the magazine’s language didn’t reflect the geography it represented nor was it fair for Arabic speakers who couldn’t read our content,” said My.Kali founder 

Countering bullying in the gay community  - Montreal-based Arc en Ciel d'Afrique, which works on improving the health and well being of Afro-Caribbean members of the LGBTQ community, will ...

Tales From The Four Color Closet: One Week After Orlando  - After all, other of my contemporaries who cover LGBTQ issues in comics have done so. There are two particularly great articles by Brett White over at ...

What You Can Do in a Time of Crisis  - So what can we do as LGBTQ folks and allies? How can our words and deeds not only express the pain and sorrow we feel in the face of such a ...

Fox News declares LGBTQ journalists like Anderson Cooper too biased to cover events ...  - On Mediabuzz yesterday, host Howard Kurtz and guest Guy Benson debated whether CNN's Anderson Cooper was fit to cover anti- LGBTQ incidents ...

How businesses are working to attract LGBTQ clients  - Canadian businesses are increasingly adopting practices that promote LGBTQ equality in the market and workplace, says Darrell Schuurman, ...

Muslim, gay communities join together to protest Trump policies in Vancouver  - The presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee has been courting the LGBTQ vote last week following the Orlando, Fla., shooting at a gay ...

We All Have Responsibility to Call out Haters of LGBTQ  - They have hurrled stones and put to death in theory millions of LGBTQ people. And now, the LGBTQ people have to be more hypervigilant. Before the ...

Is There a Direct Link Between Mental Illness and Mass Shootings?   - Many other illnesses, people are allowed to talk about them and are accepted for that and even supported in that. Mental health tends to result in ...

Should parents ever comment on their daughter's weight?  - It's natural for parents to be concerned for their child's health , but could regular remarks about size and diet lead to an increased risk of problems in the ...

Supportive Parenting Linked To Richer, Happier Children Later In Life  - The discovery: individuals who went through “supportive” child-rearing ... citing parenting and poverty as important predictors of childhood health as ...

We Must Stop Treating Fathers As The Appendix Of The Family's Health  - Sheehan D. Fisher Perinatal clinical psychologist with a specialization in father and mother mental health and the impact on infant/ child health .

Baby fat may be causing a huge health problem later in life  - A group of scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden recently found that adolescent fat may lead to heart failure in middle age. The study ...

Self-stigma' remains a barrier for military mental health : psychiatrist  - The senior psychiatrist with the Canadian Armed Forces says strides have been made in reducing the stigma of mental illness in the ...

Mental illness and your child's health: Putting the pieces together  - According to research by the National Institute of Mental Health , one in every four to five U.S. youths is affected by some type of mental disorder to the ...

Your weight as teen and your heart's health in middle age are connected  - Your weight as a teenager can be a good measure of how well your heart will be doing in middle age, according to a recent study. The research found ...