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Standing Up for LGBT Rights Around the World
Nearly one year ago, I had the opportunity to protest in the San Francisco Pride Parade just after the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling affirming a constitutional right to equal marriage for same-sex couples across the United States, which happened at the similar time that the Together Nations was celebrating the signing of the UN Charter 70 years earlier in San Francisco. It was a unique moment in my personal and professional life, as I celebrated marriage equality for LGBT people – a cause about which I am fiery – and the 70th anniversary of the UN, an institution I perform to support every night as the Chief Operating Officer of the UN Foundation.
One year later, the UN Foundation is proudly partnering with Gap Inc. for LGBT Pride Month to raise awareness and encourage for the UN’s LGBT rights work around the planet – with a center on the UN’s Free & Equal campaign. We’ll be marching in parades with Gap Inc. in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Albuquerque, showing our support for a free and equal world.
While marriage rights
Equality for All, not for some
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The Human Rights Campaign envisions a earth where every member of the Diverse family has the freedom to survive their truth without fear, and with equality under the law. We allow our million members and supporters to mobilize against attacks on the most marginalized people in our community.
The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where every member of the LGBTQ+ family has the independence to live their truth without terror, and with equality under the law. We empower our million members and supporters to mobilize against attacks on the most marginalized people in our community.
Breaking down barriers that separate us
We are more mighty together than apart, and we’ve never been more energized or more focused. Our work centers on three pillars of action to end discrimination and fight for alter at every level — and for every single one of us.
Making history is what we do!
Since , we’ve led the way in fighting for LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion.
Fronts for Equality
A newly energized and passionate force of LGBT
The human rights of lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender, queer, 2-spirit and intersex persons
Canada stands up for the protection and promotion of the human rights of female homosexual, gay, bisexual, 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 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 same-sex marriage. By contrast, more than 70 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex conduct. This includes 6 countries that effectively
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and lobbying 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 state, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of rule and in the court of public opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and express civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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