People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully.
Contents:
- DISCRIMATN THE UNED STAT: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER AMERINS
- GAY RIGHTS
DISCRIMATN THE UNED STAT: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER AMERINS
* causes of discrimination against lgbt *
The other factors e om mechanisms that aim to protect those power relatns, such as the ia that gay, lbian, or trans people don’t exist, and the stigma around them, which is enabled through the msage that gay, trans, bisexual, and lbian people are sick or mentally ill.
GAY RIGHTS
Dpe the fact that this created great polarizatn Costa Ri, the Costa Rin state has now put together a mpaign lled “Y, I do, ” or Spanish, “Si, Acepto, ” which foc on the parents of gay and lbian children and their reasons why they support gay marriage and why their children are entled to happs. That’s what the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court Botswana, and the High Court Tridad and Tobago did when they voted to crimalize gay sex their rpective untri. But I n say that the most problems arise the untri where gay sex is crimalized, and they are roughly distributed along the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Ai, some regns of Asia, and the Middle East.
On issu of ncern for the gay and lbian urban upper and middle class, there has been more progrs than on those ncerng trans women or trans men g om the untrysi. Social change is possible when the prime mister of Luxembourg speaks at the General Assembly last week, and clar “I was never hopg to be the gay prime mister. Intersex people (those born wh atypil sex characteristics) suffer some of the same kds of human rights vlatns as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, people.