LGBT group to Obama: "We are human beings" The Human Rights Campaign sends a letter to the president about his administration's defense of DOMA. By Alex Koppelman. Published June 15, ...

Secretary Clinton's rationale was clear: LGBT families are American families, LGBT rights are a matter of fundamental equality, and that equality is the foundation of the American experience.

Human Rights Watch works for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples' rights, and with activists representing a ...

Ten years ago we created a formal LGBT programme within Human Rights Watch, because we wanted to make the point that LGBT rights are an essential part of the human rights agenda.

And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights. She calls the struggle for LGBT human rights one of the important “remaining human rights challenges of our time.” ...

Gay rights advocates used it to make the case for legal equality. Allies declared it when standing in solidarity. Lady Gaga in 2011 released her triumphant gay anthem "Born This Way" and that same ...

A full month ahead of what the White House has declared LGBT Pride Month, President Obama and the first lady are honoring the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) -- May ...

“Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same…Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, ...

We've been working on this issue for some time, trying to build a wider sense that LGBT rights are human rights. So we've been putting this on the agenda in U.N. forums.

In the 1960s and 1970s, LGBT liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there ...

The need for global human rights action—from advancing tolerance to empowering LGBT people and advocates everywhere—has never been more evident. In addition to the steps it has already taken, the ...

To that end, we spent two years conducting the largest known review of the peer-reviewed scholarship on the relationship between anti-LGBT discrimination and health harms. What we found is a ...