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Athletes are increasingly expected to be good role models. But we don’t usually expect them to sacrifice their chance of winning to help others.
Our inward focus on marriage equality means Australia is largely absent from efforts to increase respect for LGBTI people in our region.
A judge has found that NHS England cannot reasonably refuse to fund anti-HIV drugs for gay men. This is a major step forward.
Poor mental health in transgender people is primarily the product of social stigma and violence. This counters the view that being transgender is itself pathological.
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.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
Interviews reveal the thoughts and feelings of UK Muslims on homosexuality.
Putting a human rights issue to a national vote is a crude means of legalising same-sex marriage.
It is now recognized within public health that discrimination causes significant health problems for the LGBTQ community.
Is our gender determined by our bodies or our culture?
Times are changing … but far too slowly.
Aggression against sexual minorities is rooted in society-level stigmas that devalue LGBT individuals.
For every advance in LGBT rights that is made in one part of the world, there are extreme regressions elsewhere.
The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
Experience in the US serves to highlight the potential long-term economic consequences if Australia fails to legalise same-sex marriage.
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.
Georgia State law scholar looks to the Constitution for limits.
The need for lesbian love stories that aren’t doomed is just as great now as it has ever been.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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UAA Endowed Professor of Sport Management, University of Florida
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Professor of Inclusive Education, PVC Dean Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
