Stigmabase | North America

LGBTQ  invitees decline mayor's meeting to mend bridges, saying there's work to do first -  Hamilton's mayor is holding a meeting to try to reduce friction between the city and the  LGBTQ  community, but at least two invitees say they ...

The Chinatown Salon Where  LGBTQ  Kids Can Let Their Hair Down -  Madin Lopez gives a haircut to Andre Vargas in May 2019 inside ProjectQ, a Chinatown salon that serves  LGBTQ  people. (Leo Duran/LAist).

Big-Name Republicans File SCOTUS Brief Against Anti- LGBTQ  Bias -  Trump and his Justice Department may argue that current federal law doesn't ban anti- LGBTQ  discrimination, but many members of Trump's ...

Amazon, Google Call On Supreme Court To Rule In Favor Of  LGBTQ  Workers -  More than 200 U.S. companies, including Amazon, Alphabet Inc's Google, and Bank of America, on Tuesday urged the U.S. ...

Pete Buttigieg welcomes Lil Nas X to the  LGBTQ  'family' -  The first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg, just welcomed Lil Nas X to the  LGBTQ  community after the “Old Town Road” ...

Fashion Industry Rallies High Court to Enshrine  LGBTQ  Protections -  Gucci, Nike and Tapestry Inc. were among some 200 companies submitting an amicus brief to the high court Wednesday in  LGBTQ  rights cases.

LGBTQ  Israelis are still fighting for equal rights. -  In 2019, Israel is a pretty great place to be gay. Our country just finished a month filled with hundreds of  LGBTQ  Pride events around the country, and ...

The Mideast's Stonewall? From Iraq to Morocco, the Fight for  LGBTQ  Rights Rages On -  In the five decades since the Stonewall riots, much of the progress made by the  LGBTQ  community in mostly Western countries has in many ways ...

As the World Bank points out, Honduras has the highest level of inequality in Latin America. More than 60 percent of its people live in poverty. View article...

She learned her art from the best-known African and African American legends in the field of dance, and the company is the longest-surviving such ... View article...

Her new book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, chronicles a number of obstacles women face before their ... View article...

First, that raising the minimum wage increases the average income of low-wage workers, lifting many out of poverty (depending on how big the raise ... View article...

There's a huge debate among scholars who study the lives of the very poorest about just how many very poor people there are in America. View article...

Percentage-wise, more Native Americans today live in poverty than blacks. The suicide rate for Native Americans is 3.5 times higher than for other ... View article...

Congress and the administration must do more to address the crisis," U.S. ... extreme poverty and lack of economic opportunity" in Central America. View article...

"America is the richest country in this [OECD] club, but we're also the poorest, with a whopping 18 percent poverty rate — closer to Mexico then ... View article...