Stigmabase | North America

Survey finds some LGBT victims in ND feel unwelcome at crisis centers - We live in a state and in a culture that isn't necessarily friendly and supportive of LGBTQ folks," said Caitlin McDonald, a member of the advisory ...

Survey finds some LGBT victims in ND feel unwelcome at crisis centers  - We live in a state and in a culture that isn't necessarily friendly and supportive of LGBTQ folks," said Caitlin McDonald, a member of the advisory ...

Deep divisions over homosexuality as UMC elects first openly gay bishop  - The UMC does not permit same-sex marriages, but activists have long sought to promote the advancement of LGBTQ rights in the Church. They have ...

Conversion' Therapy Should Have No Place in the Republican Platform - With all the progress the LGBTQ community has experienced this year, there has been major backlash in the United States during this election period.

White LGBTs: We Need Your Help With Police Harassment  - The fact that some police officers, who swore to serve and protect the law, have become assailants to people of color is not news to the LGBTQ  ...

Vanitha' Features a Transgender On Its Cover - Kerala's popular women's magazine Vanitha created history of sorts by featuring a transgender on its latest cover. The latest issue has Deepthi ...

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson wants to be Trump's spiritual advisor  - Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson is making more wild claims and giving listeners a peek into his innermost dreams. Robertson wants to “convert ...

Researchers Calculated the Economic Cost of Homophobia — And the Numbers Are Staggering  - And there are still U.S. states where you can be fired for being LGBTQ . Homophobia can also cut short the number of years LGB people are able to ...

Fathers Play Key Role in Child Development  - The findings published in two academic journals Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Infant and Child Development, provided evidences of the father's importance to a child's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programmes should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.

Fighting the bigotry and violence that hurts kids -  The science is compelling: “Toxic stress” caused by racism and violence can take a heavy toll on the learning, behavior, and health of children , said ...

The Real Reason Black Men Get Shot by Police  - The fact that some black Americans continued to live in poverty was supposedly the proof of an ongoing racism, so from the sixties until this very day ...

Mentally ill treated like criminals, not patients  - We should treat mental illness like a health problem, not a crime. Why is it that only with mental illness we somehow believe it's OK to shackle people ...

More mentally ill in jails than psychiatric hospitals - More mentally ill people are incarcerated than there are patients in psychiatric hospitals, a new report concludes. Incarceration “has largely replaced ...

How Pokémon Go can help fight mental illness - Dr.Ganz Ferrance, an Edmonton psychologist, said the game could work as a positive catalyst for people who suffer from mental illnesses like anxiety, ...

America's health care revolution hurts all workers  - And because these plans generally have a fixed annual cost for each worker, they're contributing to America's startling rise in wage inequality .

Jamie Oliver accuses the Government of escalating the child obesity crisis  - Jamie Oliver has accused the Government of ‘watering down’ its flagship obesity strategy following pressure from junk food firms. The TV chef has urged the new Prime Minister Theresa May to intervene and make the measures far tougher ‘for the sake of our children and future generations’.