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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

Empire' star Jussie Smollett on gay whispers: 'I've never been in the closet'

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Empire' star Jussie Smollett on gay whispers: 'I've never been in the closet'
- Jussie Smollett, who plays Jamal Lyons, a gay R&B singer who has struggled all his life with his homophobic father in the Fox hit “Empire,” has led to ...

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, November 26, 2017

UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...

Gender inequality: female top guns discuss silent malaise in ivory towers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

One of such is in the area of gender inequality and subtle, sometimes outright discrimination against the female gender. It is for this reason that ... View article...

Elder Queers offers a forum for LGBTQ connection while honoring those ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, February 26, 2026

I realized later in life that I was queer and started to explore the local LGBTQ community more intentionally. I appear younger than I am (Black ... View article...

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, May 17, 2015

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness - “It's embarrassing to admit that you can't do this. But one thing that I've learned here at this fair, is that mental illness is ...

Songs by Diana Ross, Cher and more among Billboard's Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Happy Pride Month! In honor of the occasion, Billboard has put together a list of the 100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time, which features songs ... View article...

Black girls hit by double burden of racism and misogyny online

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

... racism and misogyny online, with charities warning that harmful content ... Misogynoir is a term referring to the combined force of anti-Black racism ... View article...

Intersectional inequalities, structural racism, and environmental ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, June 11, 2026

At the same time, stark geographic inequalities within Europe persist, with health outcomes and system capacity varying significantly across regions. View article...

10 Authors Share Why They Write LGBTQ+ Literature

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 09, 2026

... LGBTQ content in picture books. And I've seen small children rush over to Uncle Bobby's Wedding with excitement and grab it to take home to show ... View article...

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, November 26, 2017

UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness

Pacific Standard Time — Sunday, May 17, 2015

Community health fair aims to change stigma of mental illness - “It's embarrassing to admit that you can't do this. But one thing that I've learned here at this fair, is that mental illness is ...

Songs by Diana Ross, Cher and more among Billboard's Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Happy Pride Month! In honor of the occasion, Billboard has put together a list of the 100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time, which features songs ... View article...

Gender inequality: female top guns discuss silent malaise in ivory towers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, May 25, 2026

One of such is in the area of gender inequality and subtle, sometimes outright discrimination against the female gender. It is for this reason that ... View article...

Elder Queers offers a forum for LGBTQ connection while honoring those ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, February 26, 2026

I realized later in life that I was queer and started to explore the local LGBTQ community more intentionally. I appear younger than I am (Black ... View article...

Aboriginal groups warn racism remains entrenched across Victoria's public systems

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 02, 2026

Systemic racism across Victoria's healthcare, child protection and policing systems is continuing to harm First Nations people, ... View article...

250 Years and Counting. America, the beautiful, still has deep scars racism

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 02, 2026

A distortive mask that fleetingly conceals the deep scars of racism lashed into the bodies of African slaves and carved into the collective psyche of ... View article...

ACLU says trans athletes ruling is narrower than many believe

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 02, 2026

Joshua Block, senior counsel with the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project, said the majority intentionally confined its analysis to school athletics. “[The ... View article...

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