TAG: LGBTQ rights
Why Do Men Kill Trans Women? Gender Theorist Judith Butler Explains
Butler’s insight into the lives and deaths of transgender women in 2015 penetrates beyond the surface details of their deaths. Her perspective illustrates a startling reality about the real cause of violence against trans women, and the fatal importance of an intersectional approach to the liberation of transgender people.
Read morePuerto Rico court issues historic adoption ruling
A Puerto Rico court on Wednesday ruled for the first time that a same-sex couple can legally adopt a child in the U.S. commonwealth.The Associated Press reported the judge issued the ruling in the case of a woman who had been trying to adopt a girl that her partner had through artificial insemination. The woman […]
Read moreDispatches: Japan’s Evolving Public Debate on LGBT Rights
When a local politician from Tokyo’s Ebisu district last week condemned media coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights issues and called gay people “abnormal” on Twitter, it came as a reminder of times past. It was just five years ago when Tokyo’s governor publicly called gay people “deficient.”
Read moreIACHR Publishes Report on Violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Persons
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today is publishing a regional report on the violence perpetrated against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) persons or those perceived as LGBTI.
Read moreDocumenting the LGBTQ Community in Uganda: I AM OTHER
In 2014, Rihanna, a 22 year-old transgender woman living in Kampala, Uganda was arrested and jailed under Section 145 of the Ugandan Penal Code Act for having “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” — or simply put, for being LGBTQ.
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Global homocapitalism – Rahul Rao
In this article I ask why leading institutions of global capitalism have begun to take activist stances against homophobia, and why they have done so now. I want to understand the terms on which the figure of the queer has come to be adopted as an object of concern for the development industry.
Read more‘Coming Out of Concrete Closets’: LGBTQ Criminalization as Reproductive Injustice
The data in Coming Out of Concrete Closets sheds light on the ways in which systemic discrimination of LGBTQ communities—particularly low-income communities and communities of color—forms a dragnet of criminalization for the most marginalized. (Shutterstock)
Read moreDispatches: The Courage to Combat Indonesia’s Homophobia
Draconian new by-laws came into effect in Indonesia’s Aceh province last week, mandating harsh punishments for gambling and adultery, and the option of 100 lashes for gay people “caught” having sex.
Read moreDispatches: Kenyan President Stepping Forward on LGBT Rights?
Neela Ghoshal Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program NeelaGhoshal Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta made his strongest statement to date in support of basic rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, in an October 18 interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. For the first time, he publicly condemned violence and “witch hunts” against […]
Read moreCrucial new insights on sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals
22 October 2015 If the global commitment to eradicate inequality for all people is truly unequivocal, as leaders promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) claim it to be, the implementation of the SDGs needs to take into account the voices of those people who, because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression (SOGIE), […]
Read moreGay couple seeks help from U.S. officials in surrogacy case
Gordon “Bud” Lake and his husband are unable to take their daughter, Carmen Santos Lake, third from left, out of Thailand because her surrogate mother objects to the fact she will be raised by a same-sex couple. (Photo courtesy of Gordon Lake) A Florida man and his husband continue to urge U.S. officials to support […]
Read moreThe Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism
Edited by David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Manon Tremblay, Université d’Ottawa, Canada The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject.Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or […]
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