2010s in LGBTQ rights

During the 2010s, acceptance of LGBTQ people slowly increased in many parts of the world.

[3][4] In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed the UN's first-ever motion condemning discrimination against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, commissioning a report on the issue.

[5] During an ABC News interview in 2012, Barack Obama expressed his support for gay marriage, becoming the first US president to do so.

[11] On June 26 of the same year, same-sex marriage was legalized in all 50 states of the U.S. as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 5–4 vote that refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees citizens the rights to due process and equal protection.

However, LGBT rights supporters faced obstacles with the implementation of laws curbing expression of homosexuality in Russia and China,[15][16][17] as well as in the United States, with the Trump administration's decisions to reinstate the ban on transgender people serving in the military, as well as the repeal of protections for transgender students.