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In some prisons, the only protective custody available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people is segregated isolation. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people face difficulties in prison such as increased vulnerability to sexual assault, other kinds of violence, and trouble accessing necessary medical care. [1]
During the 1970s, the N.G.P.C. inspired other incarcerated people in the U.S. to create their own LGBT+ organizations. [3] For example, in the Southern Ohio Correction Facility at Lucasville, Ohio , a Free Discussion Group was founded to nurture greater understanding and unity between the facility's LGBT+ community as well as other residents of ...
Gay people also face extrajudicial killings by state and non-state actors in some states and regions of the world. Locations where this is known to occur include Iraq, Libya, Syria, the Chechnya region of Russia, and the United States. Imposition of the death penalty for homosexuality may be classified as judicial murder of gay people.
A transgender inmate at the Kansas women's prison in Topeka has so far failed to convince a federal judge she is being discriminated against. Michelle Renee Lamb in November sued Gov. Laura Kelly ...
Ruling-party lawmaker Alexander Afenyo-Markin said on Thursday that imprisoning people for LGBT offences would encourage sodomy in prisons and "worsen homosexuality and its promotion" in the West ...
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, [1] [2] with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late 1980s. [3] [4] [5]
A gay Georgia couple convicted of sickening sexually abuse of their two adopted sons will spend the rest of the lives behind bars.. William and Zachary Zulock, 34 and 36, were each sentenced last ...
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender) youth are disproportionately more likely than the general population to come into contact with the criminal justice system. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, 16 percent of transgender adults have been in prison and/or jail, compared to 2.7 percent of all adults. [81]