Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall

Discrimination and harassment on the basis of one's sexual identity, continues to subsist, both in the law and in society. As a tribute to the courageous spirit of those who participated in the Stonewall Riot, this collection looks into the achievements, and the stalemate and obstacles that hinder them from materializing, in various countries in six different continents.
This book was previously published as a special double issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Phil C.W. Chan is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, while completing his doctoral thesis on China and international law for examination at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has held visiting research positions at universities including Cambridge, Keele, St Andrews, ANU, Ottawa, Toronto, Freiburg and Vanderbilt.

Foreword Desmond M. Tutu Preface Frank Barnaby 1. Protection of sexual minorities since Stonewall: their lives, struggles, sufferings, love, and hope Phil C.W. Chan 2. Psychosocial implications of homophobic bullying in schools: a review and directions for legal research and the legal process Phil C.W. Chan 3. Fighting to fit in: gay-straight alliances in schools under United States jurisprudence Matthew T. Mercier 4. Cumulative jurisprudence and human rights: the example of sexual minorities and hate speech Eric Heinze 5. Challenging hate speech: incitement to hatred on grounds of sexual orientation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland Kay Goodall 6. Gay male rape victims: law enforcement, social attitudes and barriers to recognition Philip N.S. Rumney 7. Criminal law, public health, and governance of HIV exposure and transmission Alana Klein 8. Shared values of Singapore: sexual minority rights as Singaporean value Phil C.W. Chan 9. Keeping up with (which) Joneses: a critique of constitutional comparativism in Hong Kong and its implications for rights development Phil C.W. Chan 10. Sexual minorities and human rights in Japan: an historical perspective Mark McLelland and Katsuhiko Suganuma 11. Blackmail in Zimbabwe: troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights Oliver Phillips 12. Lost in transition: transpeople, transprejudice and pathology in Asia Sam Winter 13. From discretion to disbelief: recent trends in refugee determinations on the basis of sexual orientation in Australia and the United Kingdom Jenni Millbank 14. Bisexuals need not apply: a comparative appraisal of refugee law and policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia Sean Rehaag 15. Independent human rights documentation and sexual minorities: an ongoing challenge for the Canadian refugee determination process Nicole LaViolette 16. Same-sex marriage and the Irish Constitution Aisling O'Sullivan