Stigmabase | North America

Why I'm Marrying My Partner Before Trump Can Take My Rights Away' - It's been a queasy, surreal week for the LGBTQ community since the election. On one hand, Trump has made overtures to sexual minorities that ...

Virginia community showers couple with love after anti-gay graffiti - A Virginia lesbian couple who found anti-gay graffiti on their yard sign after election day say the community is fighting back with love. As reports of ...

Here's How You Can Support Broadway's Fight for LGBTQ Rights - Broadway has a storied connection with the LGBT community, one that was reignited earlier this year, when 50 lives were claimed by the terrorist ...

Developers say secret tunnels under San Francisco gay bars are a myth - Property under development in San Francisco's Tenderloin District has become the subject of heated debate between LGBT historians and ...

Many in LGBTQ community fear Trump's America - Do openly gay members serve on your community's governing boards? Does the town provide services to members of the LGBTQ community who are ...

In Mexico City, a Community Rallies in Wake of Two Horrifying Trans Murders - Two high-profile deaths of transgender sex workers have sparked ongoing protests in Mexico City, where LGBTQ rights have made slow and unsteady ...

Gibraltar Has Marriage Equality, Taiwan Likely Soon to Follow - Taiwan's likely next, given that two parties have pledged to work for it — and their president is a LGBTQ activist! That and more in our look at marriage ...

Hate Violence Against Trans People Still 'Disturbingly Common' - We have to continue to push against anti- LGBTQ stigma and prejudice. Making sure the data is more accurate so we can get a picture is a tangible ...

Is Racism a Psychological Disorder ? - Instead, they emphasized nonwhite people's supposed biological predisposition to mental illness . “With very few exceptions, everyone across the ...

Kenyans living with mental illness get lost in the criminal justice system - Njoroge says he developed Substance Abuse Disorder on top of a pre-existing mental health disorder . It would make him reckless getting him ...

Keeping the mentally ill out of jail - More than 2 million people with mental illnesses are booked into jails in the United States each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental ...

The end of long battle with bipolar disorder - She is a certified suicide prevention specialist and president of the Stark County Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness . In August, Craig ...

My mental illness released through stillness - The focus currently placed on issues surrounding mental health is directed towards care and various treatments to help facilitate healing. These ideals ...

Men are scared to admit they are depressed, UAE mental health experts say - Most cases of male depression are not reported because men are afraid to admit something is wrong, mental health experts say. Globally ...

Looking for genes behind psychiatric disorders - Fortunately, while all psychiatric disorders have a genetic basis and a family history raises the risk, almost all of them involve many defective genes ...

Working with mental illness - There's a romantic notion that a bit of mental illness is a prerequisite for a writer. But when I was first coming to terms with having a mood disorder and ...