LGBT rights
Queer civil liberties
LGBT rights are the civil liberties and legal protections sought by or extended to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
The term covers issues like marriage equality, employment discrimination, housing access, and legal recognition of gender identity.
The court's ruling was a major victory for LGBT rights.
The phrase often appears in debates about religious freedom and antidiscrimination law.
- pride paradesLGBTQ+ community celebrations
- rainbow flagStriped LGBTQ emblem
- coming outRevealing one's identity
- queer visibilityOpenness of non-heteronormative identities
- marriage equalitySame legal wedlock for all
hormone therapy · anti-discrimination · hate crime laws · grassroots movements · inclusive education · allyship · chosen family · coalition building · counseling services · safe spaces · mental health support · sexual health education · lobbying efforts · legal challenges · Stonewall · media representation · community centers · awareness campaigns
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- social movementswomen's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement, environmental movement
- civil rightsequal protection, civil liberties, desegregation, freedom of religion, Montgomery bus boycott
- controversiescontroversy, dispute, scandal, outcry, outrage
- equal rightsequal treatment, equal protection, equal pay, equal opportunity, discrimination law
- Post-1989 PolandSolidarity, free elections, shock therapy, democratic transition, regime change
LGBT rightssodomy laws
Statutes criminalizing particular sexual behaviors
conversion therapy · legal discrimination · bathroom bills · employment discrimination · housing discrimination
LGBT rightsheteronormativity
Assumed universal straightness
homophobia · transphobia · religious conservatism · social conservatism · complementarianism
LGBT, rights, right, rightly, rightful, rightfully, rightness, righteous, righteousness