Stigmabase | North America

Highlights children's magazine gets schooled on LGBTQ families - It is now legal for same-sex couples to marry and to adopt in all 50 states, yet LGBTQ families are all too often still missing from the entertainment and ...

Domestic Violence Presents 'Unique Vulnerabilities' to LGBTQ Community - It's vital that we understand the unique vulnerabilities to IPV and the unique barriers to accessing services for LGBTQ communities, particular LGBTQ  ...

Domestic Violence Shelters Are Turning Away LGBTQ Victims - At the hospital, no one bothered to assess Jacob for domestic abuse, much less try to connect him with LGBTQ -affirming services for either his abusive ...

Who Will Be the First Openly LGBTQ Supreme Court Justice? - But what LGBTQ legal eagle will become enshrined as an instant American icon, alongside Justices like Louis Brandeis, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra ...

Watch Dolly Parton Chastise Her Anti- LGBTQ Fans - Our ultimate queen Dolly Parton has reaffirmed why we love her so via a recent interview on Larry King Live, where the icon talked about her love of ...

LGBTQ seniors face discrimination in long-term care - Only 20 percent of LGBTQ seniors in long-term care facilities said they were comfortable being open about their sexual orientation, according to a ...

New survey finds more US cities protecting LGBTQ rights - Sixty U.S. cities earned perfect scores on a nationwide ranking of protections for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, ...

Why Raising an LGBTQ -Positive Family in Toronto Sucks Less Now - This momentous leap forward in LGBTQ -inclusive parental rights was made possible because of community-driven efforts that, with little fanfare, make ...

What would you do to keep your child healthy ? - October is Children's Health Month. Of course, we worry about our kids every month, but this is a good time to assess some of the less obvious factors ...

EmojiHealth app aims to get youth talking about their health - Two teens have created a new app aimed at getting young people to have open conversations about health and wellness using the language most ...

Teen's Ignorant Tweets Show Why We Need to Teach Boys About Periods - It is my job to keep all those women healthy . And if I do my job well, every man will be much happier. You are all welcome, men of the world.” Period.

High Blood Pressure Medication Can Cause Depression And Other Mental Health Problems - according to a new study suggests that High Blood Pressure medication may increase the risk of Depression and other mental health disorders.

Is Nail Biting In Children An Indication Of Mental Disorder ? What Parents Should Know About This ... - Should parents be worried if their kids develop the habit of nail baiting? It used to be considered as a hygiene problem with a simple solution.

The US Has Inequality , Not Child Poverty - I've taken issue with Eduardo Porter's descriptions of poverty in the US before and it's necessary to do so once again. For absent cases of serious ...

How unequal should America be? Take this inequality quiz. - Ariely and Norton's prior work on inequality became the subject of a 2013 viral video showing how skewed Americans ' perceptions of how wealth is ...

Newly Released Maps Show How Housing Discrimination Happened - So much of the wealth inequality that exists in America is driven by inequality in real estate market and the ability to generate equity and pass it down ...