Many the US are celebratg LGBTQ rights for Gay Pri Month. But data show that most untri, cludg the US, need to do much more to protect sexual mori.
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F&M GLOBAL BAROMETER OF GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
* global barometer of gay rights *
The Frankl & Marshall Global Barometer of Gay Rights (GBGR®), Global Barometer of Transgenr Rights (GBTR™), and the Global Barometers' LGBTQI+ Perceptn Inx (GBPI) provi a global measure of LGBTI human rights 204 untri and regns.
The Frankl & Marshall Global Barometers, prised of the F&M Global Barometer of Gay Rights (GBGR®), the Global Barometer of Transgenr Rights (GBTR™), and the Global Barometers’ LGBTQI+ Perceptn Inx (GBPI) are signed to measure state-and societal-level protectn or persecutn of SOGI mori worldwi. The F&M Global Barometers Annual Reports analyze F&M Global Barometer of Gay Rights and F&M Global Barometer of Transgenr Rights data for 204 untri and terrori.
The Frankl & Marshall Global Barometers, nsistg of the F&M Global Barometer of Gay Rights (F&M GBGR®) and the Global Barometer of Transgenr Rights (F&M GBTR™) measure state- and societal-level protectn or persecutn of sexual orientatn and genr inty (SOGI) mori worldwi. The Barometer of Gay Rights (BGR) emerged as a rult. Eventually, was renamed the Global Barometer of Gay Rights (GBGR®) to reflect global reach of the rearch, and nsists of 27 ems.
Gay men earn 11% ls while lbian women earn 9% more than their heterosexual unterparts. * global barometer of gay rights *
Internatnal rearch was supported by the Multi-Donor Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Intersex Global Human Rights Iniative (GHRI). The Ugandan Parliament passed the Sexual Offens Bill, further crimalizg same-sex sexual has remaed stnchly homophobic both terms of legislatn and the general sentiment of ernment officials. Acrdg to the Frankl & Marshall Global Barometer of Gay Rights, which measur how well untri protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people, Uganda sr 11%, meang the natn persecut people based on their sexual orientatn or genr inty.
Consensual, same-sex relatns are illegal Uganda as a rult of lonial-age laws that still exist the untry, but that has not stopped polins om attemptg to further crimalize homosexualy. In 2009, a member of parliament troduced a bill seekg to punish homosexualy as a pal offense, leadg to be known as the “Kill the Gays Bill. ” While the Anti-Homosexualy Act was eventually stck down 2014, vlence agast LGBTQ+ people Uganda surged due to the outspoken, homophobic remarks promoted by ernment, the Ugandan Parliament has once aga passed a bill that seeks to further crimalize homosexualy.
— Sexual Mori Uganda | SMUG (@SMUG2004) May 5, 2021LGBTQ+ rights anizatns like Sexual Mori Uganda have highlighted the homophobic language and lled on the ternatnal muny to speak out agast the bill.