LGBTQ Rights
LGBTQ rights refer to the legal and social rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals. These rights encompass issues such as marriage equality, anti-discrimination laws, healthcare access, and protection from hate crimes. The struggle for LGBTQ rights has been a significant aspect of social and political movements worldwide, aiming to secure equal treatment and opportunities for all individuals regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
6 Key excerpts on "LGBTQ Rights"
eBook - ePubResisting Sectarianism
Queer Activism in Postwar Lebanon
- John Nagle, Tamirace Fakhoury(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Zed Books(Publisher)
...Yet, by creating broad-based human rights policies that are designed to accommodate a number of groups and issues this often has the unfortunate tendency of relegating LGBTQ Rights down the order in relation to other issues, as we have seen in this chapter. Moreover, the specificity of how conflict and political instability impacts sexuality and LGBTQ populations needs to be recognized. To do this, international actors need to design tailor-made policies to support LGBTQ Rights. Third, in order to create and deliver better policies for activists, we need to develop scholarly thinking by going beyond reductive dichotomies, which either promote normative universalizing notions of LGBTQ Rights − thus obscuring their Western roots – or see rights as a neocolonial project designed to further Western geopolitical projects. As Waites (2017) convincingly argues, greater attention is required to craft rights discourses and practices which resonate with specific contexts. This project connects with the geographies of sexual citizenship, which indicates how sexual identity and practice operates in a range of contexts and societies, particularly given its varied meanings....
eBook - ePubSexualities in World Politics
How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations
- Manuela Lavinas Picq, Markus Thiel, Manuela Lavinas Picq, Markus Thiel(Authors)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...1 Human Rights, LGBT Rights, and International Theory Anthony J. Langlois DOI: 10.4324/9781315743721-1 Introduction It is only in recent decades that human rights have become an acceptable scholarly focus for theorists within the academic discipline of international relations – albeit an approval often dispensed as a reluctant concession. More recent (still halting and very hesitant) has been the acknowledgement of LGBT rights and sexuality and gender politics in general as legitimate interests for international theorists. A further claim, that these are consequential matters which might shape and guide our interpretations of international politics itself, is still a very queer claim. In this chapter, I propose to utilize this queerness and take advantage of the way in which this claim challenges, destabilizes and reorders analytical priorities for both human rights and international theory. The study of international sexuality and gender politics is shown to be consequential for international theory in general and human rights in particular. International theory and LGBT politics In an article from the late 1990s, Paul EeNam Park Hagland set out to bring together LGBT politics, human rights, and international relations theory (Hagland, 1997). His effort represents one of the earliest attempts to do this. Hagland’s opening observations place his subsequent comments on the paucity of theoretical reflection on LGBT matters in context, by observing the slow pace at which human rights groups in general embraced LGBT issues. While notionally oriented towards the interests of the oppressed and marginalized, they paid scant attention to LGBT concerns. Little wonder, then, that states themselves did not respect the human rights of LGBT peoples: “there is not a single country which fully respects LGBT rights,” Hagland observed in 1997 (Hagland, 1997: 357)...
eBook - ePub- Calogero Giametta(Author)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Those gender and sexual subjectivities that do not find a translation in the humanitarian-informed systems of protection are received antagonistically by being readily cast as inauthentic and fraudulent. Transnational LGBT Activism: “Today London, Tomorrow the World” Over the past decade the internationalization of LGBT rights as human rights has seen an important acceleration. Let us consider the following developments; the 2006 Declaration of Montreal (International conference on LGBT human rights), the Yogyakarta Principles of the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the 2011 United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.” In this context, the human rights framework has become the official vector for advancing rights claims on the part of LGBT populations globally. Kollman and Waites argue that LGBT movements originating in the West have “increasingly defined themselves as global, seeking to organize across borders and lobby intergovernmental organizations” (2009: 2). The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and the International Lesbian and Gay Association are among the most prominent international bodies that provide support, documentation, and training to activists in the Global South. Critics have it that the initiatives of these organizations tend to define the terms on which sexual rights demands can be made (Massad 2007; Sabsay 2016). As I have discussed above, these recent political formations seek to frame LGBT political claims within the human rights framework. At the very center of transnational humanitarian action concerning the rights of gender and sexual minorities we find a large network of LGBT activists located both in the Global North and South...
- Kathryn McNeilly, Ben Warwick, Kathryn McNeilly, Ben Warwick(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Hart Publishing(Publisher)
...In the same way that the rights regime in general, and specific aspects of it in particular, have been played for geopolitical advantage by the US and other actors (think, for example, of the role of economic rights during the Cold War), LGBT rights are optionable in a similar way – in fact, quite fashionably so. 44 As Aeyal Gross comments, ‘Once LGBT rights are incorporated into global governance, they can be appropriated to reinforce or strengthen the political and/or economic power of Northern states over states in the global South, and potentially harm vulnerable populations.’ 45 The assimilation of human rights in general to state and imperial power, and to the interests of global capital, has been much remarked in recent critical literature on human rights. 46 In the case of LGBT rights, such concerns mean any good faith engagement requires a capacity and framework to discern between activities and associations which align with the normative and emancipatory ideas at the core of practices of ‘gay liberation’, and those which are in various ways instrumentalised and politicised. As Gross says, this places advocates in ‘a familiar double bind’: ‘the draw of harnessing powerful global institutions to the LGBT cause on the one hand, thereby doing a lot of good, and the risk of co-option on the other, which can result in considerable harm’. 47 Once factors such as these are brought into the picture, a very different interpretative frame can be placed upon the arrival of the gay rights holder within the international human rights regime. Added to the good behaviour bond that the hegemon expects of its client states is a form of gay conditionality 48 which fundamentally complicates our understanding of the role that human rights denominated in sexuality and gender come to play in international politics...
eBook - ePubInternational Relations Theory
A Critical Introduction
- Cynthia Weber(Author)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Chapter 11 Global LGBT studies Are gay rights human rights, and are human rights gay rights? Queer IR Theories What does the myth say? Love is Strange Love is Regulated Suggestions for further thinking If the slogan of Occupy Wall Street that rang around the world was “We are the 99 percent,” then the slogan of many contemporary LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans) global movements is “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” These were the words spoken by then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the United Nations on Human Rights Day in 2011 (Clinton, 2011). For some, Clinton’s declaration was embraced as the culmination of personal, social, and national battles for recognition, rights, and respect that had been waged by gender variant, gender nonconforming, and gender expanding people for decades. Even though these battles took place in a number of states in relation to specific social, cultural, and political dynamics and with coalitions of people working across international borders, they were rarely thought of as international issues, least of all by global elites. Clinton’s declaration changed that. Among the things that makes Clinton’s case for gay rights as human rights so compelling is how she justifies it in relation to the 1947 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). While this Declaration makes no mention of gender variant, gender nonconforming, and gender expanding people, Clinton argues that this is an insufficient fact to make the claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people across the globe—who Clinton refers to as LGBTs—do not and should not have human rights. This is because throughout history many groups now recognized as legitimate minorities with the right to have rights also received no mention in the UDHR. These legitimate minorities include indigenous people, children, and people with disabilities (2011: 2)...
eBook - ePubThe Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State
Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship
- David Paternotte, Manon Tremblay, Manon Tremblay(Authors)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
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