International
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Sexual Orientation Based Violence in Hong Kong
By Holning S. Lau, Rebecca Stotzer
February 2013
Using survey responses from 614 lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals in Hong Kong, this article reports prevalence estimates of experiences with violence based on sexual orientation. Among respondents, 60.3 percent reported being victims of only non-physical forms of violence, 9.4 percent reported experience with both non-physical and physical violence, and 0.9 percent reported experience with only physical violence.
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Submission to the Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Regarding the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010
By M.V. Lee Badgett
March 2012
Memorandum submitted to the Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010.
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The Economic Impact of Extending Marriage to Same-Sex Couples in Australia
By M.V. Lee Badgett, Jennifer Smith
February 2012
Extending marriage to Australian same-sex couples would boost the country’s economy by $161 million over three years. This estimate is based on a projection that 54 percent (or 17,820) of Australia’s approximately 33,000 same-sex couples would marry.
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Brown Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Judicial Citation and the Metaphor of Cosmopolitan Conversation
By Sheldon Bernard Lyke
January 2012
The article illustrates the ways in which justices on both the New Zealand Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court of South Africa have used the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education in discussions of same-sex marriage.
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Case of Atala Riffo and Children vs. Chile
Translated by Stephanie Plotin
March 2012
Official Summary Issued By the Inter-American Court of the Decision
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Same-sex Couples and Immigration in the United States
Gary J. Gates and Craig Konnoth
November 2011
There are an estimated 28,500 binational same-sex couples and nearly 11,500 same-sex couples in which neither partner is a U.S. citizen. None of these 40,000 couples are eligible to use the immigration preferences available to different-sex spouses. These couples are raising almost 25,000 children.
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Separate and Not Equal: Bi-National Same–Sex Couples
M.V. Lee Badgett, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2011, vol. 36 No. 4
November 2011
In an article published recently in Signs, Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett discusses her research on bi-national same-sex couples living in the Netherlands.
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Cross-National Differences in Attitudes towards Homosexuality
By Tom W. Smith
May 2011
In five rounds of surveys between 1988 and 2008 the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) has asked questions about homosexuality (www.issp.org).
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Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: A Hong Kong Study
By Holning Lau, Rebecca L. Stotzer
June 2010
This survey of 792 self-identified sexual orientation minorities in Hong Kong examined (1) the prevalence of sexual orientation-based discrimination, (2) risk factors associated with experiencing discrimination, and (3) the relationship between experiencing employment discrimination and psychological outcomes. Nearly one-third of respondents reported discrimination. Reports of discrimination were associated with negative psychological outcomes. This paper discusses how these results reinforce calls for legislative action.
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Irish Men and Women in Same-Sex Partnerships in the United States
By Gary J. Gates
March 2008
The Irish government has announced its intention to enact a civil partnership law that would for the first time offer formal legal recognition to same-sex couples in the Republic of Ireland. The 2006 Irish Census revealed that there were 2,090 same-sex cohabiting couples in the country.
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Assessing the Harms of Noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’ Protections of Sexual Minorities
By Holning Lau, Esq.
July 13, 2006
This report identifies four ways in which the United States is noncompliant with antidiscrimination standards defined by the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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