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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.

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Why Strengthening Community Could Be The Answer To Better LGBT Mental Health

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 13, 2017

Why Strengthening Community Could Be The Answer To Better LGBT Mental Health
- Mental health problems experienced by LGBT people have been linked to experiences of discrimination, homophobia and bullying. This is often ...

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Homophobia, racism, and Nazis: The dark side of rising ...

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 23, 2025

Participants in the chats used racist , ableist, and homophobic slurs 251 times, according to Politico's analysis. “Faggots,” “monkeys,” “watermelon ... View article...

Cleveland now has a full-time LGBTQ+ community liaison

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 09, 2025

Cleveland's LGBTQ +Community Liaison Carey Gibbons started with the city this summer and has been working to build connections with city ... View article...

AI In Pakistan: Balancing Innovation, Inequality, And The Future Of Human Potential

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 22, 2025

AI In Pakistan: Balancing Innovation, Inequality , And The Future Of Human Potential. AI is transforming education and work in Pakistan, but unequal ... View article...

The Kansas Quarantine

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, April 02, 2013

The Kansas Quarantine “The concerns about quarantine and isolation related to HIV are completely unwarranted,” said Charlie Hunt, the state epidemiologist at KDHE. “Existing law states that any isolation or quarantine actions have to be reasonable and medically necessary ...

As Cameroon election approaches, LGBTQ+ people face increasing violence

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 09, 2025

As Cameroon approaches Oct 12 elections, English-speaking regions are plunged into uncertainty that has exposed LGBTQ residents to violence and ... View article...

Legislative reform not the answer to racial disparities under Mental Health Act, say social workers

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 14, 2025

With black people disproportionately likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, social workers urge more funding and anti- racism training. View article...

Heatwaves worsen educational inequality in Brazil

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 22, 2025

... inequality . Beyond direct cognitive effects, nighttime heat impedes restorative sleep, reduces attentional capacity and emotional regulation, and ... View article...

Zohran Mamdani honors trans activist Sylvia Rivera, says NYC will be a pro-trans "sanctuary city"

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Indeed, Rivera's one-room dwelling on the pier had a floor mattress, a dresser, and a small side table with a candle burning “for the saints,” LGBTQ ... View article...

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Texas judges who don't perform gay weddings for faith reasons won't face sanctions, high court says

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Judges who decline to perform weddings based on their religious beliefs won't be violating state rules on judicial impartiality, the Texas Supreme ... View article...

Closing the door? How visa policies in Europe's Schengen area fail human rights defenders

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 30, 2025

These experiences occur within a broader context of systemic racism , a legacy of colonial practices that shape visa policies and practices to this ... View article...

Harvard delays trans health course after scrutiny over fee waivers for LGBTQ doctors

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Harvard Medical School is delaying an online transgender health care course after facing scrutiny for offering fee waivers to LGBTQ doctors while ... View article...

Local GOP official's social media post draws backlash in Kentucky for its depiction of the Obamas

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

A local Republican leader in Kentucky shared a social media video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes, a historically racist trope that has ignited a backlash and a strong rebuke from the state GOP for the since-deleted post. View article...

Racism, intent and the diversity in TV adverts

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, October 30, 2025

Racism is widespread and influences everyone. Most white people, like me, will have said racist things with varying degrees of intentionality. Denying ... View article...

Defence Team 2SLGBTQI+ Champions mark the anniversary of the End of the Formal Ban ...

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

On this day, we mark the 1992 anniversary of the end of the formal ban on LGBT people serving in the Canadian Armed Forces as directed by the Federal ... View article...

Supreme Court Will Meet Next Month to Revisit Landmark Marriage Equality Ruling

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell recognized multiple judicial precedents regarding the role of marriage in society. The justices also found that same-sex couples were being unfairly discriminated against, on the basis of the 14th Amendment’s Due Process clause. View article...

Gay Alabama man alleges discrimination ruined his business

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The incident behind the case of Fuller v. Town of Rockford is just the latest in a number of concerning developments for LGBTQ rights in the Southern ... View article...

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