Stigmabase | North America

Calls to crisis, suicide lines increase after election -  The Trevor Project — a crisis and suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth — said its call volume doubled and that 95 percent of those calling ...

Documenting the Secret Lives of India's LGBTQ Youth - VICE spoke with the two authors about how they approached the process of documenting LGBTQ Indians, and how the queer community has changed ...

Protesters in Orlando, Florida, rallied against Donald Trump the night before LGBTQ pride - Thousands of protesters gathered on Friday night on the shores of Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida, under a bright moon to denounce ...

15 Best Countries for LGBTQ Expats - Prior to this week's stunning presidential election results, a number of LGBTQ advocates and celebrities threatened to leave the U.S. should Donald ...

How Trump Will Change the Lives of Rural America's LGBTQ Youth - Rural LGBTQ Americans can often feel like an invisible population, and there's a clear urban-rural disparity today within the US queer liberation ...

How Trump's '100-Day Action Plan' Could Impact LGBTQ Rights - NBC OUT turned to policy experts at national LGBTQ organizations to help determine which of Trump's stated plans are most likely to directly impact ...

The Mike Pence (Donald Trump) Assault On LGBTQ Equality Is Already Underway - I'm not going to sugarcoat this at all. We are in for a full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights the likes of which many, particularly younger LGBTQ people, ...

Donald Trump's war on LGBTQ people has already begun - Blackwell, who once compared LGBTQ people to animals, is a Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, a hate group according to the Southern ...

Inequality Between Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss -  Inequality Between Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss. Working-class women who voted for Trump tell us a lot about feminism's ...

Bipolar can be difficult to diagnose and even harder to treat - About 2.6 percent of adults and about 11.2 percent of 13- to-18-year-olds have bipolar disorder, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health  ...

New facility to help teens with mental health problems - The teen years are tough enough for any kid. School, hormones, parents and adulthood coming like a speeding train. When mental illness is part of ...

Some mental illnesses still overlooked, stigmatized - It seems as though depression and anxiety are now part of the mainstream. Though a stigma surrounds all mental illnesses , these two disorders have ...

Why all Americans should stand for the national anthem - Why all Americans should stand for the national anthem ... asked me: “When did standing up against injustice and inequality become so un- American ?

What America's Economy Needs from Trump -  America's regressive tax system – which fuels inequality by helping the rich (but no one else) get richer – must also be reformed. An obvious target ...

The working class Trump will suppress - Lena Afridi is an independent writer who specialises in income inequality and ... In his final campaign speech, Trump announced "today the American ... White working class America is doing better than their minority neighbours, with ...

You Can Get Mentally Ill From The Stress Of Living In The City. We Ask Urbanites How They Cope - A research conducted by the Douglas Mental Health University Institute found the that the risk of anxiety disorders and mood disorders are 21% and ...