Understanding sexual orientation and homosexuality
Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. People around the world face violence and inequality—and sometimes torture, even execution—because of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientation and gender identity are integral aspects of our selves and should never lead to discrimination or abuse.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture. Certain prisoners are targeted for sexual assault the moment they enter a penal facility: their age, looks, sexual orientation, and other characteristics mark them as candidates for abuse. A clear example is that of Dee Farmer, a young preoperative transsexual with "overtly feminine characteristics" who was placed in regular housing in a maximum-security federal prison.
LGBT Rights
This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school. It details widespread bullying and harassment, discriminatory. Schools should be safe places for everyone. But in the Philippines, students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT too often find that their schooling experience is marred by bullying, discrimination, lack of access to LGBT-related information, and in some cases, physical or sexual assault. A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social
Human Rights Watch works for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples' rights, and with activists representing a multiplicity of identities and issues. Nairobi, May 26, — Ugandan authorities have perpetrated widespread discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT people, their families, and their supporters in the two years since the Anti-Homosexuality Act was enacted on May 26, , Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch found that the law has ramped up already existing abuse and discrimination against LGBT people to unprecedented heights. Sexual orientation and gender diversity
Sexual orientation is a component of identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction. Gender identity is one’s self-identification as male, female, or an alternative gender. . 
No Escape
Gay and bisexual adult men (Currin & Hubach, ) and trans people (Hobaica, Schofield, & Kwon, ) both retrospectively report a desire for more comprehensive and inclusive sex education. LGBTQ+ youth experience more negative sexual health outcomes, which sex education seeks to mitigate. .
Uganda
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 15(3), 7Haldeman, D.C. (). Therapeutic antidotes: Helping gay and bisexual men recover from conversion therapy. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 5(3/4), 8Fjelstrom, J. (). Sexual orientation change efforts and the search for authenticity. . Facts about “Conversion Therapy”
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