Stigmabase | North America

Activists Go to Court to Fight for LGBT Rights - China rarely made a spectacle by openly prosecuting LGBTQ persons, so negative exposure to LGBTQ existence was seldom heard of.

For the first time in Congress, a transgender politician lobbies for an anti-discrimination bill - But that day, she lent her voice to an LGBTQ rights measure that has languished in Congress for 17 years, with the bill's supporters and her own ...

People still think anti- LGBTQ slurs at football games are just 'banter' - A campaign to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attitudes in sport has revealed that almost three-quarters of British football fans have ...

A Look at the Victories Won and the Challenges Facing the LGBTQ Community - So-called "religious freedom" laws—essentially, laws that legitimize discrimination against LGBTQ folks, so long as it's under the auspices of religious ...

LBGT activist calls on UK to end discrimination - The LGBTQ people of the Cayman Islands are a minority to which the majority has made its quest to discriminate by legally oppressing and ...

Another blow to LGBT media: Lesbian blog AfterEllen will shut down on Friday - AfterEllen Editor-in-Chief Trish Bendix has announced on her personal site that the blog will be shutting down on Friday. The beloved site has been ...

Robert Pattinson did not just come out as gay - A widely shared story by an Indian hoax site that claims moviestar Robert Pattinson has come out as gay is false. The site, which includes other stories ...

Why Charlotte must stay the course on anti-bias ordinance - It has become a dangerous rallying cry for politicians interested in smearing the LGBTQ community and targeting transgender people. It has cost the ...

Your new iPhone's features include oppression, inequality and tax avoidance - Whatever marvels have been shoved into the new iPhones, the devices serve to increase the gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us, deny countries of rightful tax revenues, and oppress Chinese workers even while depriving Americans of high-paying jobs. Arrogant towards critics and governments, glutted with cash and yet plainly out of ideas, Apple is elegant shorthand for a redundant economic system. One of those attempted suicides, a 17 year old called Tian Yu, flung herself from the fourth floor of a factory dormitory and ended up paralysed from the waist down. Speaking later to academic researchers, she described her working conditions in remarkable testimony that I then covered for the Guardian. She was essentially a human battery hen, working over 12 hours a day, six days a week, swapped between day and night shifts and kept in an eight-person dorm room. When the historians of globalisati

NICE issues new guidelines on sexting in teens - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new ... including social workers, child and adolescent mental health services, ...

Pregnant women suffering from depression are THREE times more likely to develop diabetes - Researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development looked at health data of around 2,800 women and their babies both ...

2 of 3 parents want schools to expand health education - While two-thirds of those polled said health education programs should include topics such as stress and bullying, only one-third said their child's  ...

Close Bond Between Kids , Parents Has Long-Term Health Benefits - A strong and loving bond with parents may help protect kids ' health for decades, a new study suggests ...

Teen shares struggles of balancing school and mental health -  Health professionals say 1 in 5 children will show signs of a mental health disorder such as anxiety, depression, an eating disorder or bipolar disorder.

Michelle Obama Is Not Here For Your Mental Health Stigma - Got something judgmental to say about mental illness ? Michelle Obama is here to set you straight. The first lady slammed the stereotypes around ...

Prevalence of mental disorders in seniors higher than thought - More seniors are affected by mental disorders than previous studies have suggested, according to new research in the British Journal of Psychiatry.