Lgbtq ties with civil rights
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. Founded in 1986, the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every articulate, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and aggression toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from entity undermined by a license to discriminate, and to preserve LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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The ACLU Lesbian Queer Bisexual Transgender Plan seeks to build a just culture for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Thr
Serious Legal Problems faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual-Minority People in Western Canada: A Qualitative Study
Findings
Seventy people completed the online eligibility screener, and 24 completed an interview. Based on content distributed within the interview, three participants were deemed ineligible and their data were not included in the analysis. The findings below are based on the remaining 21 interviews. The average age of participants was 34. Participants reported a range of sexual orientations: five identified as lesbian, nine as queer , two as bisexual, seven as queer, one as Two-Spirit, two as pansexual, and one as asexual (participants could select more than one response option). Five participants identified as women, eight as men, seven as non-binary, and one as “FTM” (i.e., female-to-male, provided as a write-in response). Participants included cisgender, transgender, and genderfluid people who identified as lesbian, gay, or attracted to both genders, or as another non-heterosexual identity (e.g., Two-Spirit, queer). Seven participants reported having lived experience as transitioned, a history of gender transition, and/or identified as transgender. The majority of par
Justice and Civil Rights for the LGBTQ Community: Has America reached a post-conflict state?
By
Jessica Palaoro
May, 20019
Introduction
With the legalization of same-sex marriage and the broader acceptance of LGBTQ people, America appears to be on its way towards a “post-conflict” state regarding LGBTQ issues. Surveys on changing views on LGBTQ rights have shown dramatic increases in common acceptability of homosexuality and gender nonconformity across almost all domains – including civil liberties, employment nondiscrimination, marriage, adoption rights, and endorse for LGBTQ children.[1] Vast structural policy reform, as successfully as changes in attitudes and relationships towards the LGBTQ community have already been achieved in America through movement, positive media inclusion, and intergroup contact. However, much of this progress has been hindered by identity conflict and met with solid resistance from the Religious Right. Additionally, the critical disjuncture between the most privileged and least privileged within the LGBTQ community has led to continued injustices and systemic violence against homosexual and transgender minorities. Therefore, while the struggle for civil
The human rights of female homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender, gay, 2-spirit and intersex persons
Canada stands up for the protection and promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual , queer, 2-spirit and intersex (LGBTQ2I) people globally.
The human rights of all persons are universal and indivisible. Everyone should enjoy the same fundamental human rights, regardless of their sexual orientation and their gender identity and expression.
Article 1 of the Universal Announcement of Human Rights declares that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Article 2 declares, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration.” All people, including LGBTQ2I individuals, are entitled to enjoy the protection provided by international human rights law, which is based on equality and non-discrimination.
Nearly 30 countries, including Canada, recognize gay marriage. By contrast, more than 70 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex deeds. This includes 6 countries that effectively impose the death penalty on consensual same-sex sexual acts. In 6 other countries, the death penalt
Harvey Milk (1930 - 1978)
"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, being is not worth living. And you ... and you ... and you ... have got to give them hope." -Harvey Milk, "You Cannot Dwell on Hope Alone" speech
When he won the election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, Harvey Milk made history as the first openly gay elected official in California, and one of the first in the United States. His camera store and campaign headquarters at 575 Castro Street (and his apartment above it) were centers of community activism for a wide range of human rights, environmental, labor, and neighborhood issues. During his tenure as supervisor, he helped pass a lgbtq+ rights ordinance for the city of San Francisco that prohibited anti-gay discrimination in housing and employment.
Harvey Milk has been honored twice under President Obama's administration. First, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. In 2014, he was honored by the United States Postal Service with a Forever Seal in 2014.
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