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Murder of Larry King
Murder of Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old student shot by classmate Brandon McInerney on February 12, 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California; prosecuted as a hate crime and later reframed as the killing of trans girl Latisha King.
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018): Supreme Court of India five-judge bench decision that read down Section 377 IPC, decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults and overruling Suresh Koushal (2013).
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act
Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (North Carolina House Bill 2, SL 2016-3), 2016 statute requiring multiple-occupancy restrooms by birth-certificate sex and preempting local LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances; challenged federally, replaced by House Bill 142 in 2017.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy: civil unions (unioni civili) under the Cirinnà law 76/2016, in force 5 June 2016, following Constitutional Court judgment 138/2010 and ECtHR Oliari v. Italy (2015); no same-sex marriage, adoption excluded, 2,936 unions in 2024.
Same-sex adoption in the United States
Same-sex adoption in the United States, also called LGBT or gay adoption, is legal nationwide for married couples after Obergefell (2015) and the 2017 Supreme Court ruling, though religious-exemption laws and second-parent adoption restrictions persist in some states.
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda: legal May 2017 to June 2018, then banned by the Domestic Partnership Act 2018, upheld by the Privy Council in 2022; domestic partnerships and pre-2022 marriages remain recognized.
Same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands
Same-sex marriage is not legal in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, but the Civil Partnership Law 2020 gives same-sex couples unions with rights equivalent to marriage.
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States
Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States is governed by each tribe's own laws; at least fourteen tribes allow it, since the 2015 Obergefell ruling does not bind tribes.
Sex assignment
Sex assignment, also called sex designation, is the classification of a newborn as male, female, or other, usually based on external genitalia and recorded on the birth certificate.
Sexual Offences Act 1967
Sexual Offences Act 1967 (1967 c. 60), the UK statute decriminalising private, consensual homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales only, following the Wolfenden Report;Scotland and Northern Ireland followed in 1980-82.
Sodomy law
Sodomy laws criminalize sexual acts deemed unnatural, historically anal and oral sex, also called buggery or crimes against nature. Originating in English law (Buggery Act 1533) and spread by colonial penal codes, they remain in about 63 UN member states; Lawrence v. Texas ended them in the US in 2003.
Sodomy laws in the United States
Sodomy laws in the United States: state statutes criminalizing oral and anal sex, universal until Illinois's 1961 repeal, upheld in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), invalidated by Lawrence v. Texas (2003), with 12 dormant statutes remaining as of 2023.
SOGIE Equality Bill
SOGIE Equality Bill, also SOGIESC Equality Bill or Anti-Discrimination Bill: long-pending Philippine legislation first filed in 2000 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics, with fines up to PHP 250,000; still unenacted.
Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers freshman violinist also known as a victim of webcam spying by roommate Dharun Ravi, died by suicide September 22, 2010; the case spurred the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Rutgers' Tyler Clementi Center, and the federal Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.
Thomas Beatie
Thomas Beatie, born Tracy LaGondino, is the American transgender man known as the pregnant man who gave birth to three children in Oregon between 2008 and 2010 and won an Arizona appeal recognizing his marriage.
Timeline of LGBT rights
The timeline of LGBT rights charts legal milestones from France's first decriminalization in 1791, through Denmark's first same-sex partnerships in 1989, to same-sex marriage in 32 countries by 2023.
Transgender rights in the United States
Transgender rights in the United States: legal status under federal law (Bostock, Section 1557), state policy divergence tracked by MAP, the 2020s wave of restrictive state legislation, identity documents, and United States v. Skrmetti.
Yogyakarta Principles
The Yogyakarta Principles (2006) are 29 non-binding principles restating international human rights law for sexual orientation and gender identity, drafted by 29 experts in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and supplemented by YP+10 in 2017.