The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Rights.

The LGBT Rights

LGBT rights are human rights and civil rights.  LGBT rights laws include, but are not limited to, the following: government recognition of same-sex relationships (such as via same-sex marriage or civil unions), LGBT adoption, recognition of LGBT parenting, anti-bullying legislation and student non-discrimination laws to protect LGBT children and/or students, immigration equality laws, anti-discrimination laws for employment and housing, hate crime laws providing enhanced criminal penalties for prejudice-motivated violence against LGBT people, equal age of consent laws, and laws related to sexual orientation and military service. Anti-LGBT laws include, but are not limited to, the following: sodomy laws penalizing consensual same-sex sexual activity with fines, jail terms, or the death penalty, anti-'lesbianism' laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights in World Wide.

LGBT is an initialize that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialize LGB, which itself started replacing the term gay when in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, as many felt the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.   The initialize has become main stream as a self-designation and has been adopted by the majority of sexuality and gender identity-based community centres and media in the United States and some other English-speaking countries.   It is also used in some other countries in whose languages the initialize is meaningful, such as France.

Before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, there was no common non-derogatory vocabulary for non-heterosexuality; the closest such term, "third gender", traces back to the 1860s but never gained wide acceptance in the United States.

The first widely used term, homosexual, was thought to carry negative connotations and tended to be replaced by homophile in the 1950s and 1960s, and subsequently gay in the 1970s.   As lesbians forged more public identities, the phrase "gay and lesbian" became more common.  Starting in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, there was a change in perception; some gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual or transgender people. It was thought that transgender people were acting out stereotypes and bisexuals were simply gay men or lesbian women who were afraid to come out and be honest about their identity. 

Each community that is collectively included has struggled to develop its own identity including whether, and how, to align with other gender and sexuality-based communities at times excluding other subgroups; these conflicts continue to this day.  The initialize LGBT saw occasional use in the United States from about 1988. Not until the 1990s did it become common to speak of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people with equal respect within the movement.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights in Asia.

In Asia, LGBT limited in comparison to many other areas of the world. Same-sex sexual activity is outlawed in at least twenty Asian countries. While at least nine countries allow same-sex people to serve in the military, only Israel provides a wider range of LGBT rights - include same-sex relationship recognition.

In the Islamic regimes of Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, homosexual activity is punished with the death penalty.  The legal punishment for sodomy has varied among juristic schools: some prescribe capital punishment; while other prescribes a milder discretionary punishment such as imprisonment. In some relatively secular Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey this is not the case.

Egalitarian relationships modelled on the western pattern have become more frequent, though they remain rare. Same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several Muslim nations: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Yemen

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights in Malaysia.

Malaysia has no room for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights or religious freedom, Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) said today as it lobbied Putrajaya to ignore the proposals put forth by a local human rights activist coalition in Geneva recently. 

Malaysia retains its colonial era criminal ban on sodomy (as well as oral sex), broadly defined to include both heterosexual and homosexual acts, with possible punishment including fines, prison sentences of up to twenty years, and even corporal punishment. A subsection of the criminal code also provides additional punishment for men convicted of "gross indecency with another male person. In addition to the secular law, Muslim citizens may also be charged in

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special Islamic courts.

Malaysia does not have a national organization committed to LGBT rights. Instead, a loose coalition of non-governmental organizations, artists, and individuals organize the annual sexuality rights festival Seksualiti Merdeka.  Seksualiti Merdeka, meaning "Independent Sexuality", is an annual festival consisting of talks, performances, screenings, workshops, and forums to promote sexuality rights as a human right, to empower marginalized individuals and communities, and to create platforms for advocacy. Besides organising the programmes of this annual festival, members of this coalition are also involved in letter-writing campaigns, organising regular film screenings and discussions, academic advocacy and training of trainers.

LGBT- Related Laws by Country

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