Supporting gay rights

Overview

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

Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans person 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 risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression 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 reach in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to organism denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also confront 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
  

  Our Work

  We want to share some invigorating news with you. After more than a decade of discussion, NCLR is changing our name! Starting today, we will be acknowledged as National Center for LGBTQ Rights. 

  Since , NCLR’s mission has been to advance the civil rights of all LGBTQ people. And we have done just that.

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  The Supreme Court of the United States today issued its ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on healthcare for transgender youth. Today’s decision has no impact in states where health concern for transgender youth is not currently banned.

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  In June , NCLR launched Born Perfect, a program to end conversion therapy, by passing laws across the country to defend LGBTQ children and young people, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their guard, and raising consciousness about the grave harms caused by these dangerous practices.

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  With a commitment to racial and economic justice and our community’s most vulnerable, NCLR is a leader at the forefront of developing civil and human rights for LGBTQ individuals and their families through imp

  LGBT rights and equality

  Note: This page is a reproduction of the Hillary for America policy wedding offer on LGBT rights and equality. 

  Thanks to the hard work of generations of LGBT advocates and activists who fought to form it possible, our country won a landmark victory last June when the Supreme Court acknowledged that in America, LGBT couples—like everyone else—have the right to marry the person they love.

  We’ve come so far, but we still have work to do.

  As president, Hillary will:

  • Fight for entire federal equality for LGBT Americans. Hillary will work with Congress to pass the Equality Execute, continue President Obama’s LGBT equality executive actions, and support actions underway in the courts to protect people from discrimination on the basis of gender self and sexual orientation in every aspect of public life.
  • Support LGBT youth, parents, and elders. Hillary will end so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, combat youth homelessness by ensuring adequate funding for safe and welcoming shelters, and take on bullying and harassment in schools. She’ll end discriminato
    

    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 activism 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 articulate 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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    For non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.

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