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International Travel

Travelers can face singular challenges abroad based on their real or perceived sexual orientation. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel.

More than 60 countries consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. In some of these countries, people who employ in consensual same-sex relations may face severe punishment. Many countries do not identify same-sex marriage.

Research your destination before you travel 

Review the journal advisory and destination communication page of the place you plan to call on. Check the Local Laws & Customs section.  This has information specific to travelers who may be targeted by discrimination or violence on the basis of sexual orientation.

Many countries only recognize male and female sex markers in passports. They accomplish not have IT systems at ports of entry that can accept other sex markers, including valid U.S. passports with an X sex marker. If traveling with a valid U.S. passport with an X sex marker, review the immigration regulations for your destination as acceptance can vary by country.

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How new House Speaker Mike Johnson spent years fighting against gay rights

In the wake of an unprecedented three-week void without a Property speaker, Republicans on Wednesday elected Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson. While he is recognized within some Washington circles for his deeply conservative stances, Johnson, who was most recently the House GOP conference's vice chair, remains relatively obscure beyond the Capitol.

But prior to joining Congress in 2017, he spent years building his career and profile by denouncing gay people and fighting against gay rights, which he staunchly opposes, citing his Christian faith and views on liberty.

An ABC News examination of public records, news reports and documents shows the extent to which Johnson dedicated earlier phases of his career to limiting same-sex attracted rights, including homosexual marriage and health care access, and through anti-gay movement on college campuses.

In comments from over fifteen years ago, long before he became a lawmaker and while acting as an attorney and spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a Christian advocacy organization, Johnson described homosexuals as "sinful" and "destructive" and arg

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Family and domestic characteristics of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in Canada

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While couples and families share many similar challenges regardless of their characteristics, same-sex couples and families headed by woman loving woman, gay or bisexual (LGB) people face different circumstances compared with heterosexual couples and families. Numbers from pooled cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS; 2015 to 2016 and 2017 to 2018 reference periods) provide a statistical portrait of the family and household characteristics of LGB people aged 15 and older in Canada, with comparisons made with the heterosexual population.

According to Statistics Canada (2021),^Note an estimated 900,000^Note people living in Canada were woman loving woman, gay, or bisexual, represent

Idaho Republican legislators ring on SCOTUS to reverse same-sex marriage ruling

The Idaho Property passed a resolution Monday calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 decision on same-sex marriage equality.

The court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision established the right to same-sex marriage under the equal protection clause and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

The resolution comes after Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’s expressed interest in revisiting the Obergefell conclusion in his concurring opinion on the Supreme Court's landmark 2022 opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Company that overturned the federal right to abortion.

Thomas, who issued a dissenting notion in 2015 against same-sex marriage, wrote in 2022, "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process ruling is 'demonstrably erroneous,' we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents."