Can LGBT learners achieve their full potential unless they feel comfortable in being open and authentic about their sexuality or gender identity in school? - Sharon Hague Senior Vice President, Schools, Pearson UK
This report is one way of sharing the knowledge that TGEU has gained with LGBTIQ organisations across Europe, to enable all organisations to better include issues which are important for D/deaf and disabled trans people within their work.
"I still remember the date when he came out to me. It was 3 December 2007," she said, beaming with pride. "Abhishek and his friend had told me about their friend whose family had not accepted his sexuality. Before that I had not known there was a thing such as homosexuality."
Imagine finding out your mother took part in a protest – against who you are. That’s what happened to 29-year-old transgender woman Shy Amanda, from Blanytre, Malawi.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says people against the screening of Inxeba: The Wound should restrict their protests to the confines of the law.
The discussions around revisions to Indonesia’s penal code showed that “strains of intolerance” have crept into the country, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said
In Part 1 of Hindustan Times series, Let’s Talk About 377, restaurateur Ritu Dalmia asks the Supreme Court to decriminalise the archaic law, arguing that it impinges on dignity and privacy.
“Medical care available to some people should be available to all, not based on sexual orientation or other factors,” Jenny Pizer, an attorney with Lambda Legal, an organization that provides free advocacy and legal representation to LGBT and HIV-positive people, told Futurism.
