Stigmabase | North America

A Quick Primer on Fidel Castro's LGBTQ Rights Record in Cuba - While recently deceased 90-year-old Cuban President Fidel Castro helped expand healthcare and education in his country, his dictatorship also ...

PENCE bill could protect LGBTQ from harm of conversion therapy - Burke proposed a new law that seeks to ban the possible use of conversion therapy on LGBTQ community members — especially youth — in his Erie ...

Director Cheryl Dunye on her groundbreaking LGBTQ film 'The Watermelon Woman,' 20 years later - To most, being invisible is something to balk at, to complain and protest about. After all, an individual's humanity rests, in part, on being seen as ...

The Election Fallout Begins For Women, People Of Color, Immigrants And LGBTQ Community - And all us women, people of color, LGBTQ , immigrants and refugees will be living the nightmare on a daily basis as we watch our rights get stripped ...

This nonprofit empowers LGBTQ teens to tell their own stories through film - For queer youth, however, these universal hesitations and anxieties also come with the stigma of LGBTQ identity. Not only do queer teens have to ...

Man shouts 'Trump's won! Straight White Men Rule!' before attacking couple - The wave of white supremacist antigay hate that rose up following the election of Donald Trump as president of the U.S. has apparently reached as far ...

Judge will hear arguments today in Louisiana fight over nondiscrimination order - Gov. John Bel Edwards says his LGBT-rights protection order is a statement that Louisiana doesn't discriminate. Attorney ...

UNC Professor Harasses LGBTQ Students - A little bit of conflict and opposing opinions are good for the soul and good for the spirit. We learn from debating issues and stances and we wither ...

5 Reasons the Inner City Is More Like Heaven Than You Think - Not everyone in the inner city is financially poor, however, of impoverished areas across America , poverty rates remain high in our inner cities.

Trump vows to shutter Humanosphere for not making America first - Humanosphere is the only independent, non-profit news site in the U.S. that is solely focused on worldwide efforts to reduce extreme poverty and ...

Are hate crimes really on the rise in America ? Here's a guide to the data - There is no definitive federal data source for hate crimes in the US . ... In the weeks since Donald Trump's victory in the US election, there have been ... The Southern Poverty Law Center, and Shaun King's hate-crime-mapping project.

How to Help Someone Having a Panic Attack - You've probably read somewhere that in the United States, anxiety disorders are the most common types of mental health conditions, affecting ...

Mental illness : Invisible but devastating - The mental health sector is only marginally better in more prosperous South Africa, which boasts 22 psychiatric hospitals and 36 psychiatric wards in ...

Mental Disorders In Teenagers Leave Physical Signature Marks On The Body, Study Finds -  Mental disorders don't just affect the mental health of a teenager, it affects the entire body. In a new study conducted by a team from the University of ...

Preventing Mental Illness With a Stress Vaccine - Brachman took a different angle: mental health . It's common today to discuss the psychological state of attackers after a school shooting, but the topic ...

iPhone users are liars, Android users are not: Study - Researchers also found that iPhone users have lower level of honesty and humility compared to the Android users.  "Key differences in personality were also observed with iPhone users displaying lower levels of Honesty-Humility and higher levels of emotionality."