International LGBT Rights: The Canaries in the Mine Shaft
Category: QUEER VOICES
I have long thought that LGBT can be seen as the proverbial "canary in the mine shaft," since in places where individuals, institutions, and entire societies marginalize, commit violence against, and deny basic human rights to LGBT people, other social groups face similar adverse treatment as well.
By Warren J. Blumenfeld, ContributorIndependent Writer, 2014-06-17