THE BEST IS YET
LGBT : PROGRES
There ’ s more to LGBT issues than meets the eye . Millions of people identify as lesbian , gay , bisexual , and transgender , or LGBT . Thousands of them around the world are gaining visibility while many still live in fear . People of good will need to strengthen advocacy , partnerships , research — and , most important , awareness of the relevant issues . Let ’ s take a step in this direction .
By Columnist Fiona Citkin
The Good , the Bad , and the Ugly – Worldwide
The big picture is best presented in Equality Rising , a 2015 overview of the successes and setbacks of LGBT advocates around the world . We need this worldwide picture in order to put a proper perspective on the state-of-the-art in our own backyard .
It ’ s good enough that same-sex marriage became legal in Argentina , Belgium , Brazil , Canada , Colombia , Denmark ( including Greenland ), Finland ( likely to take effect in 2017 ), France , Iceland , Ireland , Luxembourg the Netherlands ( including the Netherlands Caribbean ), New Zealand , Norway , Portugal , Spain , South Africa , Sweden , the United States of America and Uruguay .
It ’ s not too bad to find the same-sex marriage legal at least partially , in certain jurisdictions of Mexico and the UK ( before , the British anti-gay regulations led to suicide of Alan Turing , creator of computers , who cracked the German naval code during WWII , enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis ).
It ’ s bad to see that criminalization of LGBT occurs in 72 countries worldwide :