Les mouvements LGBT et le droit au Japon : autour du mariage entre personnes de même sexe by Isabelle Konuma

“…LGBT rights in Japan are subject to frequent changes. …”
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The many troubles of the Fedotova judgment by Zuzana Vikarská

“…For the remaining countries, however, the Fedotova judgment amounts to an external judicial pressure to change their legal landscape in a politically very sensitive area of LGBT+ rights. Fedotova is probably the most political judgment of all times.…”
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Religious freedom, US law, and liberal political theory by Laborde, C

“…In this wonderful book, Nelson Tebbe brings principled coherence to legal controversies pitting religious freedom against LGBT rights. Arguing against sceptics who deny that conflicts about religious liberty can be solved by appeal to reason, he boldly seeks to identify a reasoned common ground of substantive agreement. …”

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AGEING AND CARE: A LITERATURE STUDY by Henderson, Neil, Almack, Kathryn

“…In contrast, in South Africa, despite progressive legislation to protect LGBT rights, there has been minimal research in this area. …”
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From Legal Tolerance to Social Acceptance: Predictors of Heterosexism in Romania by VIVIANA ANDREESCU

“…Findings and the weak effect of the country's LGBT rights legislation on public perceptions of homosexuality are discussed within the social and cultural context of contemporary Romania.…”
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Conflicted Normative Power Europe: The European Union and Sexual Minority Rights by Martijn Mos

“…This is followed by an evaluation of the EU’s international identity regarding LGBT rights. Ultimately it is concluded that the ability of the EU to shape international norms and values concerning this policy issue is severely undercut by a set of internal, institutional and conceptual inconsistencies. …”
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Minority Report: Cuban Gays in the International Media by Emily J. Kirk

“…One topic, however, which has been crucial to human development in contemporary Cuba, has received comparatively little media attention – sexual diversity (LGBT) rights. This study examines articles that focus on sexual diversity rights published from among the most popular news outlets of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. …”
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Conflicted Normative Power Europe: The European Union and Sexual Minority Rights by Martijn Mos

“…This is followed by an evaluation of the EU’s international identity regarding LGBT rights. Ultimately it is concluded that the ability of the EU to shape international norms and values concerning this policy issue is severely undercut by a set of internal, institutional and conceptual inconsistencies. …”
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The right-wing backlash in Brazil and beyond by Payne, L, de Souza Santos, A

“…We use Brazil as a case study to discuss the rise of right-wing mobilization, particularly focussing on backlash to gender and LGBT rights, in Latin America. We do so by looking at how creating a moral panic around topics such as “family threat” set up anti-rights opportunities. …”

The rise of the anti-gender movement in Croatia and the 2013 Marriage Referendum by Juros, TV, Dobrotic, I, Flego, S

“…This study uses the 2013 Croatian marriage referendum to show how anti-gender activists successfully reframed LGBT rights and emerged as influential political actors. …”

De la révolution sexuelle à l’inclusion sociale des expressions LGBT+. Le processus d’obtention des droits LGBT en Espagne by Jordi Mas Grau, Olga Jubany

“…This paper analyses the process of obtaining LGBT rights in Spain since the end of the Francoism dictatorship to the present, paying special attention to the opinions and experiences of LGBT people. …”
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The Shifting Moral Authority of the Conservative Evangelicals’ Anti-LGBT Movement in South Korea by Wondong Lee

“…During the progressive Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in administrations, discursive tactics linked LGBT rights with the existential threat to liberal democracy or constitutional value, while the key words such as national security or military discipline were more frequently employed under the conservative Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye governments. …”
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Repolitiser la diversité ? Une étude des répertoires d’endogénéisation militante des lois antidiscriminatoires by Lisa Buchter

“…Using qualitative research about people who defend a cause in company (disability rights activists and LGBT rights activists), we demonstrate – by contrast with transversal research about diversity managers and entrepreneurs – the way in which insider activists can re-politicize diversity programs, initially conceived as a non-performative interpretation of antidiscrimination law.…”
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‘MSM’ as a ‘doing thing’ by Robert Lorway

“…Its very design and appearance – which portray bodies and behaviours in universalistic ways – allow this ‘doing thing’ to gain entry to diverse spaces where it comes to exist alongside some contentious postcolonial political formations, such as those surrounding LGBT rights. I argue that although the label is designed to be insulated from politics, as a ‘neutral’ behavioural category, when ‘MSM’ travels it is still highly relational, continually entangling itself in contexts, stirring up postcolonial anxieties, and reinforcing global inequalities, while also setting the stage for global health worlds coming into being.…”
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Discrimination, policies, and sexual rights in Brazil by Sergio Carrara

“…This article focuses on a politics arena that has been articulated through the impact of ideals of sexual rights on Brazilian sexual politics, namely the affirmation of "LGBT rights". These rights have been constructed both through attempts to extend civil and social rights to the LGBT population that were previously restricted to heterosexuals, and by the enactment of provisions directly banning homophobic discrimination and violence. …”
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Places for all? Cape Town’s public library services to gays and lesbians by Genevieve Hart, Ncumisa Mfazo

“…Thus, although most agree that LGBT rights to information and equal services are human rights, only 55% consider LGBT people in their selection procedures and very little material is acquired. …”
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The Phenomenon of the Freedom Party: the Effect of Newness or the Beginning of a New Value Cleavage? by Ainė Ramonaitė

“…The case of Freedom Party is particularly interesting as it did not appeal to the median voter like previous new parties, but took a clearly liberal stance on such vulnerable issues (in rather conservative Lithuanian society) as LGBT rights. The article examines several probable accounts of the success story of the party: the newness of the party, the value shift in the society and the realignment of the voters. …”
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Unity in diversity and the EU Member States’ regulations on the rights of the LGBT people by Katarzyna Zawadzka

“…The aim of this article is to analyse the differences in the regulation of LGBT rights in the Member States of the European Union. …”
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Legal Provisions, Discrimination and Uncertainty on LGBT community in Albania. Laws on human rights vs exerted rights of LGBT persons by Urjana Curi

“…In the early 2000s,”Gish Albania” and “Alga” were the first organizations, which provided specifically in their statute the protection of LGBT rights and made serious efforts to the promote of their rights and the establishment of a small nucleus of people that would encourage the formation of a LGBT community. …”
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Allied Identities by Kurt M Blankschaen

“…Allies are extremely important to LGBT rights. Though we don’t often enumerate what tasks we expect allies to do, a fairly common conception is that allies “support the LGBT community.” …”
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