LGBTQ+ Community Equality

The issue of LGBTQ+ community equality encompasses both civil rights and human rights for members of the LGBTQ+ communities. The LGBTQ+ community includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and others with a broad range of sexual orientations and gender identities. In the United States, LGBTQ+ equality advocates have focused mainly on constitutional protection of civil rights, such as same-sex marriage, parental rights, and workplace discrimination. Around the world, however, members of the LGBTQ+ community face a broader set of challenges including the possibility of having to deal with criminalization and legal sanction, including the death penalty, and extra-judicial killings. LGBTQ+ rights became a major issue in the United States in the early 2010s. At this time, LGBTQ+ equality...