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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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From birth to death, legacy of racism lays foundation for Black Americans' health disparities

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, May 25, 2023

From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and ...

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Village where houses average £600,000 riven by bitter allegations of racism, sexism and ...

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The two practices, which share a building in the Hampshire village, have been locked in a six-year battle involving allegations of racism , sexism, ... View article...

Health insurance now covers LGBTQ partners under one plan

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, November 26, 2025

health insurance plans will now add other kinds of relationships including samesex partners inlaws dependents nieces and nephews under a single ... View article...

LGBTQIA+ people feel most unsafe on the street, nightlife, and public transport

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 11, 2025

Transgender, intersex, and non-binary people feel much less safe in public bathrooms than lesbian women, gay men, or bisexual people, for example. “I ... View article...

Ron DeSantis forced this city to remove Pride crosswalks. So it put up Pride bike racks instead.

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The state of Florida has become the epicenter of Republicans' rainbow crosswalk crackdown. But folks across the state have been finding ways to ... View article...

D-FW and national safety, support resources for the LGBTQ community

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Texas has the second-highest population of LGBTQ people in the country, with more than two million of its residents identifying as LGBTQ . View article...

Bad Medicine—How Secretary Kennedy Is Jeopardizing LGBTQ Lives

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 11, 2025

If, by his own admission, Kennedy cannot give competent medical advice, it is time he put his energy toward making health care available to more ... View article...

Racism, misunderstanding block Indigenous access to HIV care in Canada

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 11, 2025

He added the crisis is deeply baked into long-standing structural issues — poverty, housing insecurity, mental health issues and systemic racism — ... View article...

Ohio ban also would censor critics of LGBTQ issues

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, December 11, 2025

Having taught U.S. Constitutional law for almost four decades, I am no stranger to ugly governmental efforts to marginalize gay Americans. For much of ... View article...

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Village where houses average £600,000 riven by bitter allegations of racism, sexism and ...

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The two practices, which share a building in the Hampshire village, have been locked in a six-year battle involving allegations of racism , sexism, ... View article...

Ron DeSantis forced this city to remove Pride crosswalks. So it put up Pride bike racks instead.

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

The state of Florida has become the epicenter of Republicans' rainbow crosswalk crackdown. But folks across the state have been finding ways to ... View article...

D-FW and national safety, support resources for the LGBTQ community

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Texas has the second-highest population of LGBTQ people in the country, with more than two million of its residents identifying as LGBTQ . View article...

The racism issue in dance when it comes to skin coloured ballet tights

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

... have tights that match her skin tone” for ballet class, I didn't realise she'd encounter her first experience of racism there and then. View article...

First out gay hockey pro thinks 'Heated Rivalry' will lead to more players staying in the closet

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Brock McGillis, who in 2016 became professional hockey's first out gay player, thinks the viral LGBTQ sports series is entertaining, but not ... View article...

Can the government fix wealth inequality simply by taxing the rich?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 15, 2025

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is floating the idea of an increase in the land transfer tax, an amount that's owed when a house is purchased. View article...

Puerto Vallarta is getting a makeover, including an official LGBTQ "friendly zone"

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 15, 2025

No other city in Mexico has an area that is officially recognized by its government as an LGBTQ cultural center. Mexico City, the (fantastic and ... View article...

Can Canada Rescue North America?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, December 15, 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has a grueling mission ahead to preserve the U.S.- Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Gabrielle Gurley ... View article...

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