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Many LGBTQ rights in the United States have been established by the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class recognition based upon homosexuality, struck down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, and prohibited employment ...
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Laws governing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights are complex and diverse in the Americas, and acceptance of LGBTQ persons varies widely. Same-sex marriages are currently legal in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, United States and Uruguay.
This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. LGBTQ rights in the United States by region (4 C, 1 P) American LGBTQ rights activists (4 C, 1,205 P)
United States Virgin Islands (Territory of the United States) Legal since 1985 Legal since 2015 [97] Legal since 2015 [97] Legal since 2015 [97] United States responsible for defense [90] [91] Bans all anti-gay discrimination [98] Legislation enacted in 2022, also explicitly includes gender identity. [98]
After nearly three decades of holding annual silent protests to raise awareness for LGBTQ rights, students across the nation are speaking out Friday, spurred by the recent spate of laws aimed at ...
Violence against LGBT people in the US is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex individuals (LGBTQI), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America. Gay men are victimized by homophobic violence at a much higher rate than other identities within the ...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, [1] [2] with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late 1980s. [3] [4] [5] In 1962, beginning with Illinois, states began to decriminalize same-sex sexual activity, [6] and in 2003, through Lawrence v.