Stigmabase | North America

Gay high school students raped, attacked far more often  - The Vancouver police department is launching a new program to help members of the LGBTQ community concerned with their safety. Cst. Dale ...

Advocates call for more measures to protect LGBTQ seniors  - Many of Calgary's LGBT seniors are being forced back into the closet, battling discrimination all over again in the form of nursing home bullies and ...

Mississippi's anti-gay religious objection law on hold during appeal  - Protestors march seeking repeal of a Mississippi law allowing religious groups and some private businesses to deny services to same-sex couples, ...

Why this gay man is abstaining from sex for a year  - That inability to give blood exacerbated his and other LGBTQ people's feelings of powerless after the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando this June ...

Rubio asks Christians to show compassion to LGBTQ members  - The senator from Florida has an extensive anti- LGBTQ record, from opposing adoption by gay parents to voting against anti-discrimination protections ...

Montreal Pride parade celebrating 10 years of diversity  - The colour green, represents not only the environment but the rich and diverse nature of LGBTQ individuals. Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ...

Will Conflict over the Centrality of LGBTQ Issues Drive a Wedge in the BlackLivesMatter Movement?  - Some, including Black nationalists and cultural nationalists, believe that the movement for Black liberation should place race first, and that LGBTQ  ...

Texas court says transgender man has no right to change gender on ID  - A Texas appeals court ruled last week that a transgender man is not entitled to change the gender marker on his driver's license, upholding a lower ...

Canada Just Legalized Growing Medical Marijuana At Home  - Big day for our friends to the North. As Canada's CTV News reported, “The federal government has announced new rules for medical marijuana users ...

More Teens Report Depression, New Figures Show  - In fact, according to new figures from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, depression affects nearly 3 million teens .

Smoking greatly reduces life expectancy for those with serious mental illness  - Smokers with serious mental illness have their lives cut short by about 15 years, compared with people who have never smoked and who do not have ...

US maternal death rate soars by 27 percent since 2000  - They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty that dominates American society.

The Millions of Americans Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Barely Mention: The Poor  - “We don't have a full-voiced condemnation of the level or extent of poverty in America today,” said Matthew Desmond, a Harvard professor of ...

Millions of kids will go back to school with tooth decay, the #1 childhood illness  - The beginning of the school year is a fresh start for so many kids, this is a perfect time to address one of the most crucial aspects of a child's health ; ...

Economic Downturns Can Affect Children's Mental Health  - Girl sitting on boardwalk with teddy bear Economic downturns such as the Great Recession may cause children 's mental health to deteriorate, ...

Kids With Epilepsy Feel Discrimination and Stigma  - Kids With Epilepsy Feel Discrimination and Stigma, Study Finds ... Health and Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney.