Mar 16, 2023 · Recent scholarship has called for better acknowledgment of the roles that drag performers, people of color, bisexuals, and transgender patrons played in the Stonewall Riots. The gay liberation movement of the 1970s saw myriad political organizations spring up, often at odds with one another.

Jan 30, 2025 · People around the world face violence and inequality—and sometimes torture, even execution—because of who they love, how they look, or who they are. ... LGBTQ Rights Activist, Actress. Tunisia.

Nov 19, 2024 · US President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric concerning the rights of LGBT people is nothing new. His first term gives us a glimpse of what we can likely expect to see this time around.

Jan 1, 2024 · In The Trevor Project’s 2023 National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People, nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ 13- to 24-year-olds said their mental health was poor most or all the time because of such policies, regardless of whether they lived in a state where these policies are being debated or implemented.

Jun 4, 2024 · Marking its 20th anniversary, the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch authored this collection of articles to present an exploration of the challenges LGBT people face globally. Through this ...

Oct 2, 2019 · Additionally, these unwelcome environments affect LGBT people's overall education and employment prospects. [10] They are more likely to feel unsafe at school, avoid school activities, miss classes, skip school or drop out, and achieve lower academic results than their peers, setting them to an economic disadvantage in life.

Feb 19, 2018 · LGBT people take advantage of these protections; available data from states with inclusive protections show that LGBT people file complaints and seek redress for discrimination in employment ...

Jan 23, 2024 · Meta should do more to protect the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and all its users, in particular on Facebook and Instagram, Human Rights Watch, Social Media ...

Jul 23, 2018 · This report documents some of the obstacles that LGBT people face when seeking mental and physical healthcare services. Many LGBT people are unable to find services in their area, encounter ...

Eighteen states have no laws prohibiting workplace discrimination against LGBTQ people (Human Rights Campaign, 2015). Nineteen percent of transgender individuals in one study reported having been refused a home or apartment and 11 percent reported being evicted because of their gender identity or expression (Grant, Mottet, & Tanis, 2011).