Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World - Uned Stat Department of State

Contents:

• PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX, AND S LEGALISATN AI: INSIGHTS OM TERTIARY-LEVEL STUNTS GHANA
• THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS
• MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
• ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD

PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+) PEOPLE

LGBTQ Youth Rourc | Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health | CDC: Fd rourc om the CDC, other ernment agenci, and muny anizatns for LGBT Youth, their iends, tors, parents, and fay members to support posive environments.

The Indian Health Service (IHS) works to ensure that Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Qutng and Two-Spir (LGBTQ-2S) Amerin Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) dividuals and their fai receive equal accs to health servic the muni where they live. Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World (Febary 4, 2021). The stggle of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) people for equal rights has moved to center stage.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Gay and lbian people are featured movi and on televisn – not as novelty characters, but as full participants society. Mothers and fathers lose child ctody simply bee they are gay or lbian, and gay people are nied the right to marry. In 1992 Colorado enacted Amendment 2, which repealed existg state laws and barred future laws protectg lbians, gay men and bisexuals om discrimatn.

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

We mt nclu that Amendment 2 classifi homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else.

The morn gay rights movement began dramatilly June 1969 New York Cy’s Greenwich Village. Durg a typil “raid, ” police tried to arrt people for their mere prence at a gay bar, but the patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back – and the gay rights movement was lnched.

Usg many of the grass-roots and ligatn strategi employed by other 20th century activists, gay rights advot have achieved signifint progrs:. Sodomy laws, typilly ed to jtify discrimatn agast gay people, once existed natnwi; they are now on the books only 18 stat and Puerto Ri.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX, AND S LEGALISATN AI: INSIGHTS OM TERTIARY-LEVEL STUNTS GHANA

But the creased empowerment of LGBT people has brought about even more open and vilent anti-gay hostily:.

Vlent hate crim, such as the 1998 murr of Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepherd, pict a grisly backlash agast LGBTs or people perceived to be gay. In 1986, after more than two s of support for lbian and gay stggl, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn tablished a natnal Lbian and Gay Rights Project.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, 2-SPIR AND TERSEX PERSONS

Workg close llaboratn wh the ACLU’s affiliat natnwi, the Project ordat the most extensive gay rights legal program the natn. This Amendment protects the right to anize and urge ernment to end discrimatn, to regnize lbian and gay relatnships, and to adopt laws prohibg discrimatn the private sector.

It also clus the rights to form social and polil anizatns, to socialize bars and rtrants, to march or prott peacefully, to produce art wh gay them and to speak out publicly about LGBT issu. Nothg is more important than makg schools safe and welg plac for gay and lbian youth, who often face tremendo hostily om their fay and muny durg their formative years. This means protectg stunts om vlence, guaranteeg their right to anize events and clubs like other stunts, and makg sure that gay teachers who might serve as healthy role mols are not themselv victimized by discrimatn.

The ACLU has fought harassment of stunts California, Nevada, Oh and Washgton, fend gay teachers California, Idaho and Utah, and advoted for gay stunt groups Alabama, Indiana, Mnota, Utah and Wisns.

MEMORANDUM ON ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD

Reprented by the ACLU’s Lbian and Gay Rights Project, Mary Jo hop to tablish that public employe have a nstutnal right to be ee om discrimatn and harassment the workplace. The urt refed to do so, sence sayg that livg a home wracked wh vlence was preferable to livg wh a father who is gay and “ms sodomy. ” In addn to reprentg David before the Mississippi Supreme Court, the ACLU will ntue fightg on behalf of lbian and gay parents, and to elimate state sodomy laws.

But somehow do not work out that way stat like Florida and Arkansas, which ban gays and lbians om adoptg and beg foster parents, rpectively.

As a remr of what is supposed to be the sence of child-welfare policy, the ACLU’s Lbian and Gay Rights Project 1998 published a report entled In the Child’s Bt Intert: Defendg Fair and Sensible Adoptn Polici. Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn. Bs openly fire LGBT employe, and every year, lbian and gay Amerins are nied jobs and accs to hog, hotels and other public acmodatns.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Perhaps as important, the polici give some small acknowledgement to the timate, mted relatnships central to the liv of so many lbians and gay men, which society otherwise ignor. Denyg lbian and gay upl the right to wed not only priv them of the social and spirual signifince of marriage; has ser, often tragic, practil nsequenc. Sce they n not marry, the partners of lbians and gay men are not next of k tim of crisis; they are not nsulted on ccial medil cisns; they are not given leave to re for each other; they are not each other’s legal heirs, if, like most Amerins, they do not have wills.

A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021

The ACLU believ that sce we have attached such enormo social nsequenc to marriage, vlat equal protectn of the law to ny lbian and gay upl the right to wed.

While most sodomy laws apply to both heterosexuals and lbians and gay men, they are primarily ed agast gay people. Some ci e sodomy laws to arrt gay people for talkg wh each other about sex, nversatns which parallel those heterosexuals have every day. “We mt nclu that Amendment 2 classifi homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else.

ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD

Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. Our Natn has ma great stris fulfillg the fundamental promis of eedom and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) Amerins, owg to the learship of generatns of LGBTQI+ dividuals.