The percentage of U.S. adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr has creased to 7.1%. This is driven by high LGBT self-intifitn, particularly as bisexual, among Generatn Z adults.
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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) HEALTH SERVIC THE UNED STAT: ORIGS, EVOLUTN, AND NTEMPORARY LANDSPE
From the legalizatn of gay marriage Atralia to an attempted rollback of trans rights the U.S., 2017 produced a seri of highs and lows for the muny. * lgbt articles 2017 *
MEDIA REPRESENTATIONWhile lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people rema unrreprented media, acrdg toLGBTQ media advocy group GLAAD, 2017 produced a number of noteworthy highlights volvg LGBTQ characters and storyl. “But LGBTQ characters Hollywood still lack diversy, wh people of lor and transgenr people grossly unrreprented, ” she “Moonlight, ” a g-of-age story about a gay black man, ma history by beg the first LGBTQ film to w the Amy Award for Bt Picture, other LGBTQ stori have received mastream regnn, too. It was recently nomated for three Goln Glob, cludg Bt Motn Picture, brought back “Will and Grace” this year as well, heraldg the return of a show that featured openly gay characters all the way back 1998.
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. * lgbt articles 2017 *
“While the tails of the s differ, is clear that fatal vlence disproportnately affects transgenr women of lor, and that the tersectns of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia nspire to prive them of employment, hog, healthre and other necsi, barriers that make them vulnerable, ” HRC stated s report.
Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has nied the allegatns, claimg, “We don’t have any gays” to 100 LGBTQ people were reportedly arrted the ex-Soviet untry of Azerbaijan September after raids on bars and private hom, acrdg to activists and lol media reports. Azerbaijani officials nied allegatns of an anti-gay crackdown and said the raids were part of a mpaign to stop prostutn, but activists charge that police specifilly targeted gay men and transgenr women Baku, the Eurasian natn’s Central Asian untry of Tajikistan announced October has piled a list namg 367 spected gay cizens to tt them for sexually transmted diseas. Rafael J., * a gay stunt California, told CAP that he “cid to apply to law schools only LGBT-safe ci or stat, ” nyg him the opportuny pursue his graduate tn at schools he might otherwise have applied to.
Celte Sloman for The New York TimJune 20, 2017At gay pri march around the untry this month, there will be celebratns of marriage, a natnal right that, at jt two years old, feels hly exuberant to many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr while qutns of marriage are largely settled, same-sex upl who choose to have children still face a patchwork of laws around the untry that fe who is and who n be a parent. But the Philipp, stunts who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) too often fd that their schoolg experience is marred by bullyg, discrimatn, lack of accs to LGBT-related rmatn, and some s, physil or sexual asslt.
This report documents the range of ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts sendary school. It tails wispread bullyg and harassment, discrimatory polici and practic, and an absence of supportive rourc that unrme the right to tn unr ternatnal law and put LGBT youth at risk. * lgbt articles 2017 *
Reprentativ of the Church warn that regnizg LGBT rights will open the door to same-sex marriage, and oppose legislatn that might promote divorce, thanasia, abortn, total populatn ntrol, and homosexual marriage, which they group unr the acronym “DEATH. Juan N., a 22-year-old transgenr man who had attend high school Manila, said, “There would be a lecture where they’d somehow pass by the topic of homosexualy and show you, try to illtrate that the Bible, Christian theology, homosexualy is a s, and if you want to be a good Christian you shouldn’t engage those activi. We sought terviews wh stunts of diverse sexual orientatns and genr inti, but gay boys and transgenr girls were disproportnately reprented among the stunts intified by LGBT groups and the stunts who attend the group discsns.
Advot worry that bat hijacked by the extrem of both parti over trans youth and athlet are beg ed for a broar asslt on settled law protectg gay, lbian and bisexual people. * lgbt articles 2017 *
Of the LGBT stunts, 33 intified as gay, 12 intified as transgenr girls, 10 intified as bisexual girls, 6 intified as lbians, 4 intified only as “LGBT, ” 3 intified as transgenr boys, 2 intified as bisexual boys, 2 intified as qutng, and 1 intified as a panromantic girl.