In the winter of 1915, a German soldier died in a field hospital in Russia. We don’t know his name, but he helped revolutionize the way gay people have advocated for equality.
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Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
President-elect Trump has said the issue of gay marriage is settled, yet he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, which upheld a woman’s right to abortion. What will he do once he becomes president?
A professor takes us back more than 20 years, to when struggling white working-class voters in Oregon were convinced that a conservative social agenda would help bring back timber jobs.
Images of Castro as either a monster or saviour miss the mark, but his commitment to literacy and culture is undeniable.
Conflict resolution across the world frequently leaves LGBT citizens behind.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
The strongest resistance to the United Nations resolution to promote LGBTI rights came from Muslim and African states. Many of these countries still criminalise same-sex relationships.
Interviews reveal the thoughts and feelings of UK Muslims on homosexuality.
It is now recognized within public health that discrimination causes significant health problems for the LGBTQ community.
A journalist turned professor explores the identity of the city he has reported on for 41 years.
Religious leaders have done little to help combat institutionalised homophobia – and some have flat-out encouraged it.
Bangladesh’s sexual minorities have been under violent attack for some time – as has anyone standing up to the country’s extremists.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of gay people had their careers and lives blighted by official discrimination.
Georgia State law scholar looks to the Constitution for limits.
Western leaders and activists should show humility and allow themselves to be guided by local organisations if they wish to be effective in promoting same-sex rights.
A recent onslaught against gays and lesbians in Indonesia shows a fresh wave of moral panic over homosexuality in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
Should opposite-sex couples be allowed to enter civil partnerships? Many same-sex couples already in one think so.
A new book documents how the gay rights movement has catered to a certain type of LGBT person: white, gay, male and middle-class.
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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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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
