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:
- GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER ROURC
- GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
- HOW TO DEFEND GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS
- HOW GAY RIGHTS ORGANIZATNS WORK
GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER ROURC
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. * organization defending gay rights *
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The anizatn’s origal name was the Internatnal Gay Associatn (IGA) until 1986 when was then changed to s current name to clu more groups.
GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
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Amnty officially nsirs pal punishment as “the ultimate, irreversible nial of human rights, ” but also monly tackl human rights ab regardg lbian and gay rights. The anizatn was origally named the Gay Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, but has sce dropped the name favor of s acronym to reflect their work more accurately.
The Chigo chapter was also rponsible for creatg the Lexgton Declaratn, which lled on then-print Bill Clton to lift the ban agast homosexuals openly servg the Uned Stat ary. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu.
HOW TO DEFEND GAY RIGHTS
In today’s heightened culture war, the ffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowg. * organization defending gay rights *
The term LGBTI refers to a broad tegory of people, cludg those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or tersex, although we regnize that there are many terms around the world that are ed by people to fe their sexual orientatn or genr inty. She is also the Pacific Islands Reprentative on the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn Executive Board and Chairperson of the South Pacific MSM (Men Who Have Sex wh Men) Network Group. "The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
"The Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr (GLBT) Round Table of the Amerin Library Associatn is mted to servg the rmatn needs of the GLBT profsnal library muny, and the GLBT rmatn and accs needs of dividuals at large. "As the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn, HRC envisns a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny. "Sce 1994, Immigratn Equaly has been proud to advote for and reprent lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ), and HIV-posive immigrants seekg safety, fair treatment, and eedom.
"Lambda Legal, a 501(c)(3) nonprof, is a natnal anizatn mted to achievg full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and those wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work.
GAY RIGHTS
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. * organization defending gay rights *
"The Natnal Center for Lbian Rights (NCLR) has been advancg the civil and human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people and their fai through ligatn, legislatn, policy, and public tn sce was found 1977. "Ung people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) wh fai, iends, and alli, PFLAG is mted to advancg equaly through s missn of support, tn, and advocy. The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights.
“Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups.
HOW GAY RIGHTS ORGANIZATNS WORK
Alliance Defendg Freedom distribut hundreds of thoands of dollars to ge groups attackg trans, gay and abortn rights * organization defending gay rights *
'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement. C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln. “The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said.
Ron DeSantis signed a so-lled “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, rtrictg rmatn about LGBTQ people that state’s public schools and leavg LGBTQ young people fear for their safety. Anti-LGBTQ groups primarily nsist of Christian Right groups but also clu such anizatns as the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH) that purport to be scientific. In the 25 years sce was found, has brought 10 s before the US supreme urt, cludg some of the most nsequential s of the last on ntraceptive and gay is, “an aggrsive, strategic legal group that is about Christian supremacy and hegemony the US and the world, ” said Frerick Clarkson, a senr rearch analyst wh Polil Rearch Associat.