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The UN Human Rights Council once again reminds all States of their obligations to respect, guard, and fulfil the rights of LGBT and gender diverse people

This May 17, the world came together to celebrate the force of communities: relive those moments with this video report!

She now joins the likes of joining global leaders like United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima s decision-makers pledging to produce gender equality a active reality in their spheres of influence

of more than 2,000 member organisations from 170 countries campaigning for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersex people. Since 1978.

Since 1978, we possess been committed to equivalent human rights for rainbow communities and their liberation from all forms of discrimination.

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We aid LGBTI civil society worldwide through advocacy and analyze projects, and give grassroots movements a voice within international organisations.

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After nearly 50 years as a leading LGBTQ civil rights nonprofit, the National Center for Homosexual woman Rights (NCLR) announced Monday that it is changing its label to the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR) to improve reflect its longtime commitment to advocacy on behalf of the full LGBTQ community.

NCLR was founded in 1977 by Donna Hitchens, who went on to develop the first openly lesbian assess elected to the bench in the United States, and Roberta Achtenberg, the first openly LGBTQ person appointed to a position requiring U.S. Senate confirmation. NCLR’s original name reflected the reality that it was the first national LGBTQ organization to be founded by women.

The corporation was revolutionary because it established that lesbian women faced singular legal challenges that were not being addressed by existing queer rights organizations, which tended to focus on issues more relevant to gay men.

By creating specialized legal advocacy for lesbians, particularly around family law issues, NCLR helped establish new areas of civil rights law that would benefit the entire LGBTQ community.

Hitchens’ and Achtenberg’s initial goal was to provide legal support to lesbian mothers fearful

EL*C Membership

We understand that our lesbian communities are intersectional, which is why we place focus on intersections such as race, class, disability, age, geographies, gender identity and verbalization, in both our internal and external operations and structures. We seek to create the spaces that we demand to exist and evolve: lesbian led and lesbian committed sites, projects, platforms to be “talking, laughing, loving, breathing, fighting, f*cking, crying, drinking, riding, winning, losing, cheating, kissing, thinking, dreaming” (from: The L-Word Theme). We center diversity, inclusion and participation - within the LGBTIQ and feminist community as adequately as all the worlds through which we move. Our experiences, needs and perspectives differ - individually and collectively, throughout our regional focus area of Europe and Primary Asia and with respect to the intersecting social groups we belong to, the ways we are limited and enriched by this, marginalized or centered, and the strategies we apply to move out of global systems of oppression and discrimination.