BDSM and Fetishism: Finally off the “Sick List”
Consensual sexual practices should not be medicalized. In fact, the medicalization of consensual sexual practices and sexual identities is an affront to human rights and sexual liberation, one that echoes a disturbing history that includes the categorization of “homosexuality” as…
U.S. Leads in Income Inequality and Moving ‘Full Steam Ahead to Make Itself More Unequal’
Reprinted with permission from the Human Rights at Home Blog. For two weeks at the end of last year, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty crisscrossed the United States, speaking to communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lowndes…
The Right to Family in the Era of the “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policy
On May 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new iteration of the Trump administration’s draconian stance on immigration: the “zero tolerance” policy. In short, the “zero tolerance” policy directs prosecutors to charge as many people crossing the border…
Centering Sexual Freedom on Human Rights Day
Happy Human Rights Day! Today marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , a document that identified the inalienable rights to which everyone is inherently entitled as a human being -- regardless of race, religion, sex, language,…
State Legislatures Are Proposing Laws Denying Those In The LGBTQ Community (And Others) The Fundamental Human Right To Family
The two-year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the US Supreme Court decision recognizing the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry, will occur on June 26th. It would be difficult to overstate either the importance of Obergefell to the LGBTQ…
Can’t We Just Agree? — A New York Court Holds That A Child Can Have Three Legal Parents
One plus one plus one is three. We can all agree on the math, but when it comes to parents, the law usually stops counting at two. But a New York court recently decided, in Dawn M v. Michael M.,…
Children Denied Families
Imagine denying children a home, a family, for no reason other than who the potential parent chooses to love and with whom they choose to form a family. Well, it’s happening! Georgia has become one of the most recent states to…