Discrimination against gay and lesbian

Overview

Around the world, people are under ambush for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate chance to their animation, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or verbalization and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can appear in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a career or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also face suppression across the globe. 

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

  • your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
  • gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
  • gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
  • sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive
    discrimination against gay and lesbian

    LGBTQ People’s Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment

    Executive Summary

    Over 8 million workers in the U.S. identify as LGBT.Employment discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity possess been widely documented.Recent study has found that LGBTQ people continue to encounter mistreatment in the workplace,even after the U.S. Supreme Court held in 2020 that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Experiences of workplace discrimination and harassment negatively impact employees’ health and well-being, as well as their job commitment, satisfaction, and productivity. These primary effects can, in turn, finding in higher costs and other negative outcomes for employers.

    This report examines experiences of discrimination and harassment against LGBTQ employees using a survey of 1,902 LGBTQ adults in the workforce conducted in the summer of 2023. It is based on a similar study published by the Williams Institute in 2021.This report examines the lifetime, five-year, and past-year workplace experiences of LGBTQ employees. It compares the experiences of transgender a

    The human rights of lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, queer, 2-spirit and intersex persons

    Canada stands up for the protection and promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, 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 Declaration of Human Rights declares that “all human beings are born free and matching 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 relish the protection provided by international human rights law, which is based on equality and non-discrimination.

    Nearly 30 countries, including Canada, recognize homosexual marriage. By contrast, more than 70 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex manner. This includes 6 countries that effectively impose the death penalty on consensual same-sex sexual acts. In 6 other countries, the death penalt

    Despite recent advances, people in this country are still being fired, harassed and targeted at work because they are LGBTQ+. If you’ve been discriminated against because of your sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression (in hiring, firing, promotion, benefits, or work conditions), you hold rights. Call our hotline at (888) 833-4363 and someone from our legal team will be able to speak with you and discuss your situation.

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    There has been progress over the past twenty years in the legal landscape and in the evolution of social opinions and attitudes related to an individual’s sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression. Nonetheless, members of the LGBTQ+ collective still suffer pernicious and blatant gender bias in all areas of general and private life, including housing, employment, opportunities in academic settings, in the ability to buy goods and services, and in the opportunities to participate meaningfully in our society's decision making processes.

     

    There is a growing number of laws around the nation being enacted under the guise of religious autonomy that curtails – even eliminates – the rights of LGBTQ+ indi

    The early 1990s saw a major expansion of the Council of Europe membership due to the implode of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. In 1989, for example, there were 22 member states whereas by 2010 this had risen to 47.

    To join the Council of Europe, new member-states must undertake certain commitments, including conforming their criminal laws to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). As we know from the situation in Northern Ireland described in Dudgeon above, the ECHR right to privacy prohibits the criminalisation of same-sex exercise. By the time candidate states from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc applied for membership of the Council of Europe, it was a condition of their accession to decriminalise.

    By way of example, the following countries decriminalised at or around the time they joined: Lithuania (joined the Council of Europe in 1993; decriminalised in 1993), Estonia (1993; 1992), Romania (1993; 1996), Serbia (2003; 1994), Ukraine (1995; 1991), Albania (1995; 1995), Latvia (1995; 1992), Macedonia FYROM (1995; 1996), Moldova (1995; 1995), Russia (1996; 1993), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002; 1998-2001), Georgia (1999; 200