Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance of starting families. But while common, it’s rarely openly discussed.
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Why the recent Supreme Court case on gay marriage could make a huge difference for racial justice.
Outright homophobia has mostly moved from the mainstream of public discourse to its margins. For this, we can thank pioneers like Lance Loud of An American Family.
The fight over whether gay people deserve service taps into old sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland.
Negotiations on the UN’s 15-year development strategy, which involve all 193 member states, have at last produced a set of ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. These focus on social justice, poverty…
The history of “cures” for homosexuality reveals how discredited conversion therapies for gay and transgender children can irreparably harm young minds.
Current conversion therapies can’t effectively switch someone’s sexual orientation. But there could be a time down the road when neuroscience can do what they can’t. Where does that leave gay rights?
Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act may have been “clarified” but there are concerns it could have a chilling effect on campus attitudes toward LGBTQ students and faculty across the state.
Barack Obama has thrown his administration’s support behind a ban on “conversion therapy” for same-sex attraction. He is to be applauded.
Finland is to become the last Nordic country to legalise same-sex marriage. And Russia isn’t going to like it.
Marriage is a big step forward for the UK’s gay, lesbian and bisexual people – but there’s plenty more to be done to improve their lives.
Many places around the world now allow gay and lesbian marriages, but ‘treating’ homosexuality remains politicised.
The UK is now a world leader on global gay rights – but when it comes to upholding them for asylum seekers, it’s a very different matter.
Oregon has been a pioneer state for LGBTQ elected officials – against a background of fierce ideological battles.
With the world’s attention on the tragedy of the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, another awful development has largely slipped under the radar. In The Gambia, a small country frequented each year…
The UN is mandated to protect all people without discrimination, to advance equality and to protect the human rights of all individuals. It has a strong track record of putting those things into place…
The international movement to protect “traditional family values” has grown in proportion to protection for the human rights of LGBT people. In 2011, the Council held a panel on LGBT rights, at the start…
The world’s most popular gay social networking app, Grindr, is having a tough time. William Saponaro Jr is suing its developers for negligence, after he was arrested for sexual assault and endangering…
In her new book Straight Expectations, radical feminist writer and campaigner Julie Bindel has recently and very publicly claimed that she’s not convinced by the scientific argument that sexual orientation…
It’s often suggested that children with same-sex parents have poorer outcomes because they’re missing a parent of a particular sex. But research my colleagues and I published in the journal BMC Public…
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Associate Head, School of Psychological, Social & Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Associate Professor of Religion, Kalamazoo College
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Professor of Modern History, Keele University
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Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Law, Keele University
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Professor in Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
