The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
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- PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE
- SUPPORTG QUEER YOUTH: LGBTQ FUND WEIGHS IN ON THE HOMELSNS AND INRCERATN CRISIS
PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * gay freedom index *
Equalx's Equaly Inx is a ratg om 0 to 100 (wh 100 beg the most equal) to help visualize the legal rights and public attus towards LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex...
The LGBT legal x measur the current legal stat of 13 different issu rangg om the legal stat of homosexualy, same-sex marriage, transgenr rights, LGBT discrimatn protectns, LGBT censorship laws, and more. Each topic is assigned a "total possible sre" and a "sre" is assigned based the stat of the law g a ratg sle that rang om 0% to 100% (for example, if homosexualy is legal, would would receive a sre of 100, but if 's illegal, would receve a sre of 0.
Especially more nservative regns, surveys are ually limed to homosexualy or same-sex marriage.
SUPPORTG QUEER YOUTH: LGBTQ FUND WEIGHS IN ON THE HOMELSNS AND INRCERATN CRISIS
* gay freedom index *
This report scrib updat to the LGBTI (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and/or tersex) Global Acceptance Inx (GAI), which seeks to measure the relative level of acceptance of LGBTI people and issu each untry for a specific time perd. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty. LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr).
Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot. Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.
In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal.
Protectg the Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) People * gay freedom index *
Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available. 2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005. Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people.
Portugal beme the sixth European untry and the eighth untry the world to legalize gay marriage on May 17, 2010. Belgium was the send untry the world to legalize gay marriage (after the Netherlands).
Norway has legalized gay marriage and has worker protectns for both sexual orientatn and genr inty. Addnally, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people may serve openly the Spanish Armed Forc. In 2004, the Natnal Assembly approved an amendment to existg anti-discrimatn laws to clu homophobic ments as illegal.