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International Travel
Travelers can encounter unique challenges abroad based on their real or perceived sexual orientation. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel.
More than 60 countries consider consensual lgbtq+ relations a crime. In some of these countries, people who engage in consensual same-sex relations may face serious punishment. Many countries perform not recognize queer marriage.
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Digital Transgender Archive
LGB and/or T History
Author: Hugh Ryan
Any line we might try to draw to separate lesbian/gay/bisexual history (LGB) from trans history (trans) would be imprecise, blurry, and certainly not direct. Because of the incomplete archives we have, attempts to separate histories of sexuality and gender transgression often resort to pure guesswork. Worse, just trying to find that line forces us to consider all of history through two modern categories – gender and sexuality – making it harder to understand the very thing we are researching.
Even in just the last few decades, the definition of “transgender” has shifted radically. To take one example: in 1996, Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors (one of the first widespread histories of transgender people) was published with the subtitle “From Joan of Arc to RuPaul.” But today, RuPaul is considered a cisgender drag queen, not a transgender person. This shows how the conversation around gender diverse history has moved away from focusing on practices that cross gender norms (like drag), and towards focusing on people who self-identify as transgender.
Written by Allison Newey
Edited by: Giulia Ripamonti
Introduction
The 21st century has witnessed historic advancements in international gay rights, especially in Western countries. Across the globe, governments increasingly pass legislation that legalises same-sex marriage, protects queer people from work-based discrimination, and criminalises homophobic hate crimes. However, these strides for gay rights are not paralleled in the transgender rights movement.
Compared to the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, trans rights, healthcare, and protections are significantly lacking, even in the most ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’ Western nations. Although transphobic rhetoric has spread consistently across several Western democracies, the Joined Kingdom, in particular, has experienced an unprecedented wave of transphobia in both the public and confidential sectors, and both government and civil society. Indeed, transgender individuals, especially transsexual women, are increasingly victimised and targeted by transphobic acts of violence and ‘lynchings’. Additionally, LGBTQ+ activists have dubbed the UK as ‘TERF Island’, referring to the increasing movement of trans-exclusionary radical
It is frustrating, alarming, sad, and more than a minuscule scary that this still needs to be said in 2024, but here we go, once again, for the record:
Trans. Rights. Are. Human. Rights.
Some so-called “leaders” throughout the country have decided that the transgender community—including gender non-conforming, non-binary and intersex folks—make an straightforward target as political pawns in their hate-filled culture wars. Which is why it is more important than ever for the entire LGBTQ+ community and our allies to stand up boldly on behalf of the entire gender non-conforming family.
Simply stated, there is no LGB without the T. We are one family.
Do not for a second delude yourself into thinking that this latest attack on the trans community is “not your fight.” Ignoring transphobia does not make cisgender queer people any safer. Already your favorite drag queens are being targeted in places enjoy Tennessee and Arizona. Legislators in Iowa this year proposed a ban on same-sex marriage. And Florida’s now infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law has spawned copycat legislation in more than a dozen other states.
They are coming for all of us. Look at the ominous historical precedents. The Weimar Republic wa