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Woman waving a "Born this Way" rainbow flag over the dancing crowd in front of the San Francisco Federal Building, at the Gay Pride Festival. (Getty Images/Tristan Savatier)

Pride is good for you, science says

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Man speaking with doctor about concerns (Getty Images/Korrawin)

Penile fillers rising in popularity

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates with his daughter Hope Walz (L), son Gus Walz (2nd-L) and wife Gwen Walz (R) after accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Politicians destigmatizing infertility

Nicole Karlis
Abortion provider Dr. Barbara Zipkin councils a patient at Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, Arizona on April 11, 2024. (Getty Images)

Abortion "exceptions" and mental health

Nicole Karlis
Young man lost in his thoughts (Getty Images/Vuk Saric)

Stigma shames men who want less sex, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A medical student displays a pouch of Narcan, which is used to revive an overdose, at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Harm reduction is about ending stigma

Sheila P. Vakharia
Captain flying a Boeing 767 over the North Atlantic just before dawn (Getty Images/Kent Wien)

Why pilots face mental health stigma

Nicole Karlis
Tattoo artist designing motifs (Getty Images/Westend61)

The tattoo stigma exists, study finds

Nicole Karlis
Immigrants seeking asylum, who were apprehended at the time Title 42 expired are processed, by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after crossing into Arizona from Mexico, on May 11, 2023 in Yuma, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Does immigration really increase crime?

Troy Farah
(Getty Images)

We need equitable depression screenings

Maria Garcia - The Conversation
Gretchen Bergman and her family (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Bergman)

Moms against the war on drugs

Troy Farah
A long line of soda bottles in various flavors and colors (Getty Images/RapidEye)

How soda taxes reinforce weight stigma

Anne Katherine Anderson Waugh, Andrea Bombak, Kerstin Roger, Natalie Diane Riediger - The Conversation
Cannabis and liver (Getty Images/Shidlovski)

Pot users being denied liver transplants

Troy Farah
(Narratively/Wenjia Tang)

"Sad Girls Club"

Britta Lokting - Narratively
Bree Olson (flipchip/LasVegasVegas via Wikimedia Commons)

Jenny Kutner
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-857938p1.html'>JENG_NIAMWHAN</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks at a news conference, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014 in New York. At left is Dr. Howard Zucker, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is at right. The governors announced a mandatory quarantine for people returning to the United States through airports in New York and New Jersey who are deemed "high risk." In the first application of the new set of standards, the states are quarantining a female healthcare worker returning from Africa who took care of Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1336324p1.html'>GlebStock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Parental leave for teens

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62354p1.html'> Anna Jurkovska </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Punishing moms who get help

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
The AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Washington Monument, in Washington DC. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

HIV's enduring stigma

Nico Lang
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-783025p1.html'>warakorn</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
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