Stigmabase | North America

Countries that allow gay people to serve in army - Months after Supreme Court decriminalised consensual gay sex between adults, Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat has reignited the debate around gay ...

Who is Julián Castro? The LGBT rights supporter to run for US President - Julián Castro, Barack Obama's former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a long-time LGBT+ ally, has announced he will seek the ...

Playing it straight: should gay roles be reserved for gay actors? - Having played several LGBT characters, he was keen “to make sure I won't be ... that such parts should be given only to actors who identify as LGBT .

New details emerge about what one source calls an anti-LGBTQ 'genocide' LGBTQ community ... - Since then, Meduza has received additional information from the Russian LGBT Network, online groups for LGBTQ residents of the Caucasus, and a ...

Same-sex couples cast adrift in Singapore's property market - As same-sex marriage is not recognised, “ LGBT people are cut out of this ... Singapore's stance towards its LGBT residents could be costing it talent, ...

Netflix's 'Sex Education' is its latest hit British TV show — and this time the streaming giant didn't ... -  Unlike some of its other British Netflix "original" shows, "Sex Education" ... and its "complex characterization of a gay teen of color," among other things.

Sergei Polunin dropped by Paris Opera Ballet after homophobic rant - Polunin, who was compared to Rudolf Nureyev early in his career, blasted gay dancers in an Instagram post last month. He urged male ballet dancers ...

Newest Democrat to run for president was part of campaign comparing homosexuality to incest and ... - Tulsi Gabbard, who announced she is exploring a bid for president, worked for her father's anti- gay organization in the early 2000s - a group that ...

10 poorest counties in America - most states, most residents of those poor counties can't even make it to $40,000 a year. And the people who live in those counties face some ...

America loves to praise Martin Luther King Jr. But we ignore his message -  Americans too often praise the man while ignoring the message. ... King balanced a scathing indictment against war, racism, poverty , and materialism ...

New Report Highlights How Surging Inequality Widens the Racial Wealth Divide - Historic racial wealth disparities are being maintained or worsened by policies that have shifted wealth to the richest U.S. households ...

As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez 'Radical' Proposal Proves ... - The majority of Americans respect when you break down reasonable policy proposals that are designed to combat runaway income inequality and ...

Growth and inequality : To celebrate or not to celebrate? That is the question. - Among the countries with the largest middle classes in the world— the U.S. , China and India—happiness declined in the U.S. and India, while it ...

Fighting inequality on the frontline - These are the frontline everyday heroes fighting inequality . ... southern Mexico and Central America , that suffer discrimination and unemployment.

Extreme poverty rises again in Latin America -  Inequality in Latin America has reduced but extreme poverty is still on the rise while those that have climbed out of it remain vulnerable, the United ...

How Individual Actions Affect Economic Inequality - Writing last year, the New York University sociologist Guillermina Jasso used two words to describe economic inequality in America : “high” and ...