LGBT people face discrimination all over the world. Help us recognise grassroots campaigners doing inspiring workDeadline for nominations: 4pm GMT on Thursday 23 FebruaryAcross much of the world,lesbian, homosexual, and bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people continue to live in fear of persecution. 72 countries still occupy laws against homosexual sex and in 13 countries it’s punishable by death.
The final few years occupy seen a series of gains made by the international LGBT community,however. In 2015, same sex unions became legal in Chile, or Ecuador and all 50 states of the US,and same sex adoption was also approved in Colombia and Bermuda. Then in 2016, the UN appointed its first independent investigator to protect LGBT people from violence, and the Seychelles,Belize, Benin and Nauru decriminalised homosexuality and Northern Ireland lifted its ban on homosexual men giving blood. Several countries also took moves to ban conversion therapy. And this year Taiwan looks set to be the first country in Asia to legalise same sex marriage.
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Source: theguardian.com