The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement is the stggle for equaly and marriage rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people. Learn about the Stonewall Rts, Harvey Milk, the Pri flag and more. * rights of lgbt community *
Historilly, people belongg to the lbian, gay or bisexual and transgenr (“LGBT”) social groups have experienced var human rights vlatns such as vlence, harassment, discrimatn, excln, stigmatizatn and right to privacy. One of the ma factors for passive reactns towards protectn and promotn of basic human rights of the LGBT group uld be ciphered om the diverse historil, cultural, and relig backgrounds of Stat, which lks moraly wh the bat of homosexualy and transsexualy.
In the absence of legal amework to crimalize homosexualy at the ternatnal level, two s before, the Commtee terpreted the provisns of the ICCPR (pecially Article 2 and 26) to affirm the basic human rights of the dividuals belongg to diverse sexual orientatn and genr inty.
THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
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. * rights of lgbt community *
Briefly, the observatns uld be tegorized unr (i) anti-discrimatn measur; and (ii) crimalizatn of homosexualy and homosexual activy through repealg or amendg var legislatns.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Sce 2009, the nomenclature ed for referrg to LGBT persons was ‘sexual orientatn’, however, there was a substantial change by g the term ‘LGBT’ for the first time one of the reviews of s Member Stat, expandg the nstct of sexual orientatn to acts of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persons’, thereby emphasizg on sexual mory rights. In this stance, has to be noted that is high time the Commtee engag self adoptg the language of crimalisatn of homosexualy, which uld be read as more practil to the anti-discrimatory practic and vlence agast sexual mori.
The Indian judiciary had at length discsed on crimalizatn of homosexualy (Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co 1860) the recent past through three important judgments.
In the Naz Foundatn v Government of NCT of Delhi se, the High Court of Delhi upheld crimalizatn of homosexualy (crimalized adult nsensual sexual acts private).