Stigmabase | North America

Crime of passion': How a gay man became the last person to be executed in BC -  In 2017, the Canadian government issued a formal apology to the  LGBTQ  community, one that Kinsman characterizes as “remarkably limited.”.

Madonna Delivers Emotional Speech At GLAAD Media Awards: 'Death And Loss Brought Me New ... -  Award at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday night in New York City, paying tribute to her decades of activism on behalf of the  LGBTQ  community ...

Conservative religious groups targeting California's sex education guidance -  But with the framework up for adoption, the opposition has ratcheted up its intensity in recent months until  LGBTQ  advocates have feared for their ...

Teaching LGBTQ+ History in Schools Benefits All Students -  Research has shown that  LGBTQ +-inclusive curriculums have proven successful in California, the first state to introduce legislation like the current ...

Transgender teens with school bathroom restrictions are at greater risk of sexual assault -  To do so, they analyzed survey data on 3,673 of these teens from the 2017  LGBTQ Teen Study, an anonymous web-based survey, and reported the ...

Cats and Dogs Often a Salve for  LGBTQ  Loneliness -  Daphne came into my life in December of 2008 as a Christmas present from my roommate and friend. I had come home from work late and when I ...

Brunei suspends death penalty for homosexuality after backlash -  Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said a moratorium on the death penalty will be extended to the county's Islamic penal code. The small, Muslim ...

Gays cheered at Brigham Young University – millennial Mormons are increasingly tolerant of same ... -  Under this code, students could take on  LGBTQ  identities but not kiss, date or show other forms of physical intimacy that are allowed for straight ...

Immediate end of the war on drugs. While most of us know that it has been a catastrophe for poor and minority neighborhoods in the U.S., we may not ... View article...

The US also has the highest rate of income inequality among Western nations, with the top one percent claiming 40 percent of US wealth in 2016, ... View article...

According to Sanders: "At the end of the day, we cannot continue this grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that currently exists." Sanders ... View article...

The richest Americans, the top 0.1 percent, own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent ... The World Bank ranks inequality using the GINI index. View article...

America's wealthiest would suffer financial losses if some of those leaders had their ... forms of agriculture, which right now are a big business in America. ... seemed cognizant that the US is reaching gilded-age levels of inequality, ... View article...

Americans have long tolerated some inequality, because almost everyone would like to strike it rich. If you harbor these ambitions, you've got to accept ... View article...

... also promised to clamp down on corruption after allegations of embezzlement of public funds in the Central American country, whose trans-oceanic ... View article...

As long as people have no way to stay home, as long as extreme inequality, ... Yet, as Oxfam points out, there will be no stability in Latin America until we ... Then why can't we promote peace and stability in Central America and ... View article...