What are LGBT rights?

Answer 1

When someone refers to Gay Rights, they usually mean civil liberties that are granted as rights to heterosexuals, but are either inconsistantly given to or denied to people of non-heterosexual (straight) orientations.

This applies to people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or are generally not straight.

Some examples of these rights which are often denied to non-straight people are:
* serving in the armed forces
* having equal protection under the law

* the ability to enter into marriage

* protection from discrimination

* equal employment oppritunities

* the ability to adopt or have children

The list continues, and can include any rights that any other heterosexual person might have.

Answer 2

They are equal rights specifically aimed at gay, bisexual and transexual/transgender people. These rights differ from country to country, and sometimes from state to state, but typically include:

• marriage
• adoption
• workplace protection
• bullying protection
• and other forms of equality

Answer 3

This term is usually used to refer to gay people obtaining the same rights as straight people, such as the right to live free, marry and not be harrassed or attacked.

There are no rights that are "only gay people have".

Answer 4

This term is usually used to refer to gay people obtaining the same rights as straight people, and not a list of specific rights that are only for gay people. An example of the rights straight people have (depending on the country) that gay people want are:

• The right to live in peace with whom we choose.
• The right to get married if we want.
• The right to visit our husband/wife/partner/spouse in hospital without the permission of their parents.
  
• The right to inherit and to will property without red tape or taxes, just as heterosexuals can.
• The right to get any job we are qualified to do, if we are the best person for that job, without being judged on our sexual orientation.
• The right to show affection in public, to walk down the street holding hands, just as straights do, without being harassed by the law.
• The right to have our de-facto relationships recognized and accepted in every legal way that straight ones are.
• The right to inherit superannuation from our partners.
• The right to foster and adopt children and to give them a loving home.
• The right to be teachers, and police, and military without anyone jumping to old stereotypical conclusions about how it might not be appropriate.
  
• The right to donate blood and plasma.
• The right to walk down a street without getting beaten up