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“Since 1999, the UK has legislated astonishing, huge legal improvements in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights”.
These improvements, says veteran human rights activist Peter Tatchell, writing in the latest issue of The Pink Humanist, “include ending the ban on gays in the military, equalising the age of consent, introducing civil partnerships and same-sex marriage, repealing Section 28, outlawing homophobic discrimination, allowing same-sex couples to adopt children and official recognition for transgender people”.
But, Tatchell argues, the battle for equal rights still has to be won, and concludes that lessons in equality and diversity should be mandatory in all schools from the first year of primary education onwards – to challenge all forms of prejudice (racism, disableism and sexism, as well as homophobia and transphobia).
“This is the most effective way to create a caring, inclusive, compassionate and equal society The government says it is committed to LGBTI equality but it has failed to deliver in these key policy areas. The LGBT community deserves better.”
Also in the latest issue which is published by the UK charity the Pink Triangle Trust is an examination of LGBT rights in Turkey, which this summer hosted the Muslim world’s biggest Pride event in Istanbul, despite strong opposition from Islamic traditionalists.
There is an update on the situation in Uganda, where there has been an upsurge of violence against LGBT people since a court quashed the country’s Anti-Homosexual Act, and a report on Jamaica’s continuing failure to tackle homophobia.
Feature articles include “The Great Gay Catholic Church: How Christianity went from Homophilia to Homophobia in One Short Century”, and “Rupert Brooke: A Bisexual Atheist?”
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