Stigmabase | North America

Channing Tatum to play a merman in gender-switched 'Splash' remake  - He's played a stripper, an alien, a cop, and in a stretch, an actor, but now Channing Tatum is set to play a male mermaid in a reboot of the 1984 Tom ...

Queer Women Have Absolutely No Reason To Support Donald Trump  - Even as acceptance and embrace of the LGBTQ community becomes more and more commonplace, queer women's lives are still being ...

Advocate applauds landmark ruling for LGBTQ students made by Privacy Commissioner  - Advocates and members of the LGBTQ community are calling it a landmark ruling and one that's been years in the making. The Privacy Commissioner ...

Tackling LGBTQ Youth Homelessness  - PINK is one of the only Armenian NGOs organizing around LGBTQ rights, and it is by far the most famous. Due to hostilities towards the LGBTQ  ...

After Pulse and HB2: Charlotte's pride festival beefs up security  - Officials in North Carolina have declared Charlotte's gay pride festival later this month is an extraordinary event that ...

Pope Francis denounces transgender people as 'annihilation of man' - Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice. Francis made his remarks ...

Beit El Rabbi makes controversial remarks against LGBTQ community  - Beit El Rabbi makes controversial remarks against LGBTQ community. A senior level rabbi within the Religious Zionist movement made controversial ...

Rainbow Crosswalks, Same-Sex Traffic Light Figures Celebrate Diversity In Buenos Aires  - Small demonstrations of same-sex love, rainbows and other signifiers of LGBTQ appreciation have appeared in pedestrian areas of the city, in honor ...

Time for universal basic income in American cities?  - Some anti- poverty advocates, however, are beginning to ask a more radical question: What if the government instituted a Universal Basic Income ...

There's a Hunger Problem in Every County in America —and It's Solvable  - Among all people struggling with hunger in the U.S. , more than half—56 percent—have incomes above the federal poverty level. There are now 115 ...

Recognizing mental illness in children  - Recognizing mental illness in children Diagnosing mental illness in children is difficult as many behaviors that can be symptoms of mental health  ...

These Policies Could Move America Toward a Universal Basic Income  - The idea is both simple and basic: Give people enough cash to eliminate poverty . A guaranteed check for, say, $12,000 a year per person would ...

Experiencing Racism Makes You High Risk for Mental Health Issues - Recent research by University of Manchester found that minorities who experience racial discrimination are at high risk of mental health issues and ...

Some Dad Better Than None for Teen Girls' Mental Health  - Boomerang” fathers — dads who cycle in and out of their children's lives — are better for the mental health of their teen daughters than fathers who ...

Healthcare inequality on the rise  - In healthcare, as in the rest of American life, the gap between rich and poor is growing. That's the take-home message from our analysis of 50 years of ...

Segregation is normalized but must be put to an end  - Segregation defines the contours and functions of American crime, policing ... of a piece, coalescing the fears of a coming minority-majority America .