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The UN Human Rights Council once again reminds all States of their obligations to respect, guard, and fulfil the rights of LGBT and gender diverse people
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This May 17, the world came together to celebrate the influence of communities: relive those moments with this video report!
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She now joins the likes of joining global leaders like United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima s decision-makers pledging to produce gender equality a operational reality in their spheres of influence
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ILGA World maps are among the most shared visual representations of how LGBTIQ people are affected by laws and policies around the world.
The scope of our long-standing rights mapping has expanded thanks to the ILGA Planet Database. With that platform, ILGA maps have become interactive and constantly updated, to better cover sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a distinct gender or the similar gender or more than one gender. More, gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More and expression, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More (SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity & verbalization, and sex characteristics. More)
Records of lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, and gender non-conforming (LGBT) people are as old as written records are. However, LGBT Pride, the movement searching the end to discrimination against LGBT people and social equality, is only fifty years ancient. It only started as a response against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay club in New York where the police incursion was met with upheaval.
One year after the uprising, small Pride marches took place in two other American cities. In two years time, Europe would follow suit. With time, Identity festival marches moved from the fringes to the mainstream of European culture and would be the promoter of profound social change.
Despite the first spark organism kindled in America, active European LGBT activism predates the riots by decades. Precisely, the interwar period saw the blossoming of European associations, building on a pre-existing require to decriminalise queer relationships.
In this article, we travel from the darkest times to the days of glitter and celebration most of Europe lives in. Of course, we also cast a light on the plac
Is LGBTQI* tourism contributing to foster acceptance and rights of homo- and transsexuals in travel destinations? Reflections from Cambodia, Colombia and Saudi Arabia.
Homosexuality is still prosecuted in 70 countries, being even punished by death in eleven. It is therefore not surprising that security still plays a major role for LGBTQI* (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexual) travelers to this day. But travelling is not just a risk for LGBTQI* people. The industry also has the potential to strengthen the acceptance and rights for LGBTQI* locals within the travel destinations – in theory. Markus Ulrich from the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) is skeptical: "It is a mere claim that LGBTQI* traveling improves the legal and social situation in tour destinations and cannot be proven", he says. Rather, tourism often functions as a fig-leaf for states to demonstrate cosmopolitanism to the world, while its hold LGBTQI* population continues to be massively repressed. The tourism industry is more optimistic: By entering repressive tourist destinations, the