Stigmabase | North America

Trump administration's “Unalienable Rights” commission may roll back  LGBTQ  protections, critics ... -  A new Trump administration commission could try to roll back protections for  LGBTQ  people, women, and minorities, according to critics.

Alberta City Officially Condemns  LGBTQ  Conversion Therapy -  But even in Alberta, the news isn't all bad. The city of St. Albert, northwest of Edmonton, is taking a bold step in the direction of equality for  LGBTQ  ...

Gov. Ned Lamont signed three laws Tuesday supporting the state's  LGBTQ  community. Here's ... -  This year's legislative session was one of the most successful for the  LGBTQ  community in Connecticut, state Rep. Jeff Currey said Tuesday at a ...

Nivea doesn't care if you're upset about their executive's ugly comment about gay men -  In 2013, Barilla Pasta chairman Guido Barilla said the company would never advertise specifically to  LGBTQ  people, adding “If the gays don't like it ...

NC House candidate invoked Schindler while supporting anti- LGBTQ  policies -  A Republican candidate for a congressional House seat in North Carolina invoked Oskar Schindler during an email exchange about enforcing ...

Free  LGBTQ  legal clinic launches in Twin Cities -  A new  LGBTQ  legal clinic is offering free help to transgender people who want to change their names. Tuesday, about ...

Peaceful, family-friendly  LGBTQ  rally planned Saturday to 'counter hate' -  On June 15, self-appointed preachers with homophobic signs crashed a Gage Park Pride event, and clashed with festival supporters and  LGBTQ  ...

UK showed its  LGBTQ  pride despite Trump's rainbow flag ban -  I just returned from a vacation in England. I was struck by the obvious contradiction between the attitude towards the  LGBTQ  community in our country ...

... federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would lift 1.3 million people out of poverty but also put an estimated 1.3 million Americans out of work ... View article...

If implemented, it would bring Europe and America closer together by ... the very inequality fueling nationalist backlash on both sides of the Atlantic. View article...

In seeking to depress the poverty line, the Trump administration is going in the ... The fact is, the poverty line is set too low and is rising too slowly. ... it will inflict serious suffering on millions of America's most vulnerable families in the ... View article...

Colombia has done better, reducing its poverty rate by almost half to 28 percent and its extreme poverty rate from 18 percent to 8 percent. But the ... View article...

No state—not even California, long held up as the embodiment of America's widening geographic inequality—has seen a larger post-recession ... View article...

In the aftermath of this year's annual celebration of our country's birth, here's some food for thought: inequality, once considered anathema to American ... View article...

... to address income inequality and channeling anger toward corporate America, being ranked among the millionaires amounts to an unwanted title. View article...

Kraus, who has long studied race and inequality, wanted to understand how the stereotype of the high-achieving Asian American influences what ... View article...