UNITED STATES It is the year 2024, and democracy has ended in most of the USA, just as the original Founders said it would end. Too many politicians and government employees now define their careers by violating the human rights of millions of Americans. The number of politicians and religious leaders in the USA guilty of genocide against LGBTQ people is appalling but the perpetrators can all be punished for their crimes since none can escape. Over 25 times more human beings in the United States are experiencing major human rights violations than the number of American slaves when the USA had slavery. The number of LGBTQ children who die each year is heartbreaking with politicians directly targeting them for harm in several states such as Florida (where legislative and executive officials openly confessed to the crime of genocide) and Alabama. Politicians violating the human rights of Americans are being funded by money from foreign sources, including Russian organized crime let into the USA, making these politicians guilty of treason, a crime against the American people no longer enforced against politicians who place themselves above the rule of law at the expense of ordinary American citizens. The United States Supreme Court became a constitutionally corrupted court in 2016 when Senators violated their oath to the U.S. Constitution by not fulfilling their constitutional duty to hold hearings for a Supreme Court candidate nominated by a twice-popularly elected President and instead denied the American people a Supreme Court selection by the President they lawfully elected. The U.S. Supreme Court is packed with justices paid for by dark money (anonymous and often foreign) to give predetermined rulings that serve the special interests of the political party of the Senators who constitutionally corrupted the court to begin with in 2016, rendering the U.S. Constitution meaningless for 99% of the American population. As a result, in an unprecedented loss of trust and confidence, two-thirds of Americans no longer have confidence in the court, with the majority of Americans now having little or no confidence whatsoever in the United States Supreme Court. In a further affront to democracy, five of the nine justices were appointed and confirmed by politicians that could not even manage to get the backing of the majority of American voters; this system is a holdover from the slavery-based founding of the USA before its first Civil War when states wanted to ensure their slaves were kept in slavery. The Senate filibuster is another holdover from the slave times of the USA to also keep the slaves as slaves and to thwart any protection of rights for minority groups. Gerrymandering is another holdover from slave times and is only now being addressed in some states. Human rights violations, judicial corruption (at state and federal level), voter suppression by partisan politicians, and other major erosion of democracy has turned much of the USA into a delapidated plutocracy where the top 10% of 1%'ers harms the other 99.9%. In 2024, all nine Supreme Court Justices became disqualified from holding office under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, Section 3 (the Constitutional safety net for the American people against oath-breaking insurrectionists from hlding office as well as those who provide comfort to them from holding office) by trying to gut the very part of the Constitution which now disqualifies them for providing comfort to current and future insurrectionist within office and pursuing office in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The United States Supreme Court is a failed institution, which has hobbled the United States of America into a failed state. The U.S. President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, all members of the U.S. Senate, all members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and all members of the U.S. Supreme Court have confirmed that it has ended. Not a single one can answer the most fundamental question of all: Equal Protection Under Law is the heart of Democracy and human rights; it prevents numerically larger groups from depriving smaller groups and individuals of their basic rights and freedoms. It also prevents corrupt partisan officials, no matter how they attempt to justify it, from violating the human rights of other Americans since such officials who violate the human rights, including equality, of millions of Americans are by definition enemies of the American people. The United States does not uphold equal protection under law for women who constitute 52% of Americans, inflicting upon them conditions of inequaity and violation of bodily autonomy no human being should have to contend with. Why should Americans maintain the Rule of Law under government officials that violate the heart of Democracy? When asked, none of them can explain. In fact, out of 1,000,000+ elected and appointed government officials and employees in the USA (Joint Chiefs of Staff, NSA, CIA, FBI, CDC, FDA, DOD, Governors, Attorneys General, Legislators, etc.) who all draw their paychecks and pensions from the pockets of the American public, precisely zero can answer that most fundamental question. And their inability to explain makes them exceedingly uncomfortable. Obviously no one wants to be caught at the helm, or be one of the crew, of such a proverbial Titanic after it has so blatantly hit the iceberg. Meanwhile, the anti-democracy and anti-human rights environment makes it impossible for tens of millions of Americans to consider their government as meeting the basic requirements of justice and equality, safety and happiness, set forth in international law and in the founding Declaration of Independence. It may seem strange that denying equality to human beings was powerful enough of a subject to end crucial democracy elements as EqUal Protection under Law in most of the USA; just as providing free speech to people you adamantly dislike requires placing the grander principle over personal feelings to preserve democracy, equality provoked enough disdain to override common sense in many Americans who failed to grasp and internalize the larger ramifications of violating Equal Protection Under Law, the heart of democracy. From state to state, the United States is a land of stark contrast - a vast patchwork and pattern of human rights fulfillment and violations with the overwhelming majority being violations in states where democracy has ended (listed in the M.E.D.U.S.A. category).     Each day more civic leaders and ordinary citizens in the USA are realizing that human rights protection is the key to upholding the American ideal of Liberty and Justice for All. It should be noted that several cities, towns and counties have taken the initiative to secure and defend democracy and human rights when their state fails to act. There is no federal law protecting Americans from discrimination based on real or perceived sexual orientation in housing and public accommodations. Only twenty-one states cover these areas with statewide laws (and a few of these states are failed states so these laws are suspect). Consequently, in 29 states, all human rights laws can be easily circumvented. A human being can be legally refused an apartment or house, fired from their job, or denied service at a restaurant, shop, hotel, hospital or other public accommodation based on their sexual orientation. Heterosexuals can be targeted too based on sexual orientation by other heterosexuals who don't like other characteristics, meaning no one in these 29 states has any human rights protection whatsoever since religion, race, gender, disability, ethnicity and nationality are not protected when the person can instead be targeted for their sexual orientation, a loophole that renders anti-discrimination laws moot. American law has a fatal flaw in this respect. The lack of human rights protection in this area means in 29 states you can discriminate against the family members of the government officials who fail to protect other people's human rights, making the situation pyrrhic. Unfortunately since they don't want to protect their own from discrimination, it is not surprising they don't protect anyone else. As a result of a Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2003, heterosexual and homosexual adults in America finally have enforcement of their privacy rights. The fact that the heterosexual majority has been kept so uneducated by the government so as not to demand privacy rights decades earlier is testament to the swiftly unravelling republic. Many heterosexuals like to dwell on non-heterosexuals and religion, when the profound discussion is about heterosexuals and religion. Case-in-point: Three prominent, intertwined world religious mythologies - perpetuated by heterosexuals through the ages - are based on the premise that the first heterosexuals were betrayers and that their bloodlines are accountable for the "criminal" actions of their ancestors until the end of time unless their descendents cease to exist or unless every new generation perpetually receives forgivenness to avoid being punished for the actions of their ancestors. This in and of itself indicates a deep-seated self-loathing among vast numbers of heterosexuals. Why cursed betrayers kicked out whose bloodlines forever pay the price? Why not heroes sent into the world to do good from the start? Some heterosexuals are able to put such self-hating religious mythologies into perspective, while other heterosexuals despise themselves and other heterosexuals so much they insist that everyone be followers of religions in which heterosexuals are originally cursed and kicked out of a utopian setting. Any number of affirming mythologies regarding heterosexuality could have been made popular by heterosexuals. Instead the mythology of heterosexuals as cursed betrayers of a supernatural entity was the one most heterosexuals chose to pass along to unsuspecting offspring and to force upon other heterosexuals as being the undeniable universal truth regarding the origin and trustworthiness of heterosexuals. Sane human beings with self esteem do not label themselves or any ancestor as cursed, much less blame them for the downfall of humanity at the start of the world, or give unblinking allegiance to such self-loathing myths. It is similarly telling that these world religions treat women as inherently and perpetually inferior. Most Americans - male and female - support and perpetuate religious mythologies in which women are forever second class, and unable to even preach to fellow adherents. It is revealing that such vast numbers of heterosexuals cannot uphold even the basic human rights of other heterosexuals - including the one particular heterosexual they vowed to love and cherish, but apparently not as an equal. If genders were treated equally among heterosexuals, same sex marriage would not be so contested. But for these particular religions to continue to exist, marriage among heterosexuals must perpetuate the self-loathing mythologies that claim female inferiority must forever submit to control by male superiority. If heterosexuals as a whole treated each other as equals, they might stop long enough and in great enough numbers to put an end to the absurd religious notion that heterosexuals were ever cursed and kicked out of utopia. This denial of civil equality by the United States government is substantially, if not solely, based upon religion. The intrusion of other people's religion into the daily lives of gay Americans is such that Freedom of Religion does not exist for gay and gay-allied people within the United States. Blatant corruption and bigotry exist in government. For example, the Alabama Supreme Court fails to meet the requirements of a fair, impartial, independent judiciary, ignores federal rulings, and violates human rights in exchange for campaign contributions. Some regions only hold their high ranking because of the legislative and executive branches while the judicial branch fails, such as California, for example, because the majority of the California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 in 2015 that they, any of the five judges - a male judge having sex with a 16 year old girl and impregnating her (or a female judge having sex with a 16 year old boy) - would not necessarily have to register as an offender, while an 18 year old high school senior having sex with his 17 year old boyfriend would mandatorily have to register as an offender. The corrupt members of the court ruled this was not discrimination when clearly it is. These five speciously-named "justices" in the case merely exempted themselves from harsher treatment while subjecting gay young people to criminalization - rendering the five "justices" including the chief justice intellectually bankrupt and severely damaging any judicial credibility in the state. In 2020, the state legislative and executive branches have corrected this corruption and restored equity. Meanwhile, another California judge ruled it is okay to break non-discrimination laws and to discriminate against others if you advertise your services but then deny them to only certain people based on their protected characteristics by claiming they offend your religious sensibilities as long as you deny them before performing your services - which is so stunningly corrupt as a ruling as to defy all logic and even the most basic rational test. Some regions in the USA have died from corruption, such as Wisconsin and Ohio, which terminated being a democracy as a result of gerrymandering so their legislative branches, for instance, do not reflect the voters. For example, in 2018, 54% of Wisconsin voters voted for one party but that party ended up with only 36 of 99 legislative seats - that is how appalling the gerrymandering is that terminated democracy in Wisconsin. In 2023, North Carolina's Republican justices on its state supreme court actually broke precedent and reversed recent rulings to put gerrymandering back into North Carolina, killing its democracy not only through restored gerrymandering but from a now-corrupted North Carolina state supreme court that is merely a partisan extension of a rightwing political party the corrupt justices serve instead of serving the people. North Carolina is a failed stae that is now authoritarian instead of a democratic republic. In Florida in 2019, legislators and the governor of one party terminated Florida's democracy when legislators decided to disenfranchise citizens from voting, despite the specific wishes of a supermajority of Florida voters who expressly voted to enfranchise those citizens. Like Florida, many regions in the USA abruptly ended their democracy for reasons unrelated to LGBT issues. For example, in 2019 in Iowa, politicians from one party could not win using fair, impartial, and independent courts when attempting to harm other people's constitutional rights and freedoms, so legislators and the governor of that party specifically passed a law to corrupt the judicial selection process with partisan politics, taking away the right of every Iowan to access fair, impartial, and independent courts and consequently terminating a rudimentary element of a functioning democracy. Members of that politicial party had the audacity to tell Iowans it was "watered-down legislation" to corrupt the judiciary as if there is such a thing as a little bit of an atrocity that makes it permissible to terminate the elements of a constitutional democratic republic. It should be noted that a federal Senator from Iowa from this party as chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is the one who corrupted the U.S. Supreme Court by failing to carry out an assigned constitutional duty regarding the Supreme Court nominee of a twice popularly and democratically elected U.S. President, resulting in one of the greatest defilements and betrayals of a constitutional democratic republic ever. These annihilations of democracy in the USA are part of the trend of politicians from one party terminating the institutions of a democracy when they refuse to operate within them - historically one of the main reasons for the ending of democracies around the world. State governments and the US federal government tax gay Americans as first class citizens, taking in billions of dollars each year, while treating gay Americans as second class citizens when it comes to basic things like nondiscrimination in employment, nondiscrimination in public accommodations. The Land of the Free has ignored educating US citizens about human rights, despite having had over 75 years in which to create and implement a plan to do so. Several U.S. states have government officials who have knowingly, willfully, and with premeditation committed the crime of genocide against LGBTQ+ children, targeting them for the denial of life-saving information and medical care. As of 2024, these include the majority of legislators and many governors in the following states: Florida, Alabama, Iowa, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Utah, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Size of American LGBTQ+ Community Most recent information indicates at least 21% of Americans are LGBTQ+, so the American LGBTQ+ community is larger than the individual population of every state in the USA, and outnumbers the combined population of 28 of the 50 U.S. states. Distribution of American Gay Community As the years pass and more citizens feel comfortable identifying themselves on a national survey, attempts at gathering distribution figures continue to grow more accurate - though in countries like the United States where human rights are violated by the government collecting the data, convincing participants to trust the information gatherer proves daunting. The 2020 Census Bureau attempt recorded at least 980,000 same-sex partner households residing in 99% of all counties across the United States, dispelling the myth that gay and lesbian couples only live in urban areas or only live in certain parts of the country. The Bureau limited its attempted search to same-sex partner households, and did not attempt to record individuals or couples living apart. For perspective, 980,000 same-sex partner households means 1,960,000 people - larger than the combined population of Montana and Alaska, larger than the individual population of 43 of the 196 nations on Earth, and larger than the combined population of 16 of the 196 nations.

Dealing With Governments All governments derive their legitimacy solely from fulfilling human rights and all officials are sworn to do so through progressive measures, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to ensure that human beings are not driven to rebellion against tyrrany and oppression. History reveals numerous examples of governments in which political power is formally vested in representative assemblies, yet enforcement of law is arbitrary or despotic, and minorities have few safeguards against the tyranny of majorities. No country, no government, no democracy, can claim to be free until they fulfill human rights for all people. The atrociousness of the Holocaust is magnified even further because it was carried out not by a dictatorship but by the lawfully and democratically-elected government of the day, empowered by the votes of voters: the hoary sanction of "the will of the people" - an indefensible excuse still echoed decades later by corrupt politicians, religious leaders, and government officials as an reason to violate or not protect the human rights of minority groups. Human rights are a gravely serious matter. Many humans are harmed and killed as a direct result of government officials who continuously fail to internalize the gravity of their duty to ensure humanity their full human rights. Take time to thank government officials who uphold human rights, and to remind the remainder of their personal responsibility and their accountability to their progeny who rely on them not violating human rights. About the Gay Rights Human Rights Report This nongovernmental, nonprofit, nonpartisan report is updated daily and provides a window into the achievements and shortcomings of countries, as they pertain to the legal and moral responsibilities to uphold human rights, in accordance with the International Bill of Human Rights which consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The right to freedom from discrimination is affirmed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in its Articles 2 and 7 and by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in its Articles 2 and 26. The United Nations Human Rights Committee, in the 1994 case of Toonen v Australia, held that ICCPR protections against discrimination should be interpreted to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. The UDHR is considered part of customary international law and is binding on all member states of the United Nations. Several areas are assessed for this report, including: life, liberty, and security of person (UDHR Article 3); human equality and equal protection of the law (UDHR Art. 1,2,7); right to non-interference in human intimacy regarding privacy, family, home (UDHR Art. 12); freedom of peaceful assembly and association (UDHR Art. 20); right to wholely participate in society, including non-discrimination, marriage, and full development of personality (UDHR Art. 2,3,7,16,22); right to work with equal pay and non-discrimination (UDHR Art. 7,23,24,25); freedom from torture (UDHR Art. 5); equal, non-discriminatory access to public service, including military service (UDHR Art. 2,7,21); equal, non-discriminatory access to education with freedom for full development of personality (UDHR Art. 1,2,7,22,26). This report covers the current status of human rights recognition in law and practice around the world. Many locations have the legal framework in place to achieve even greater human rights recognition. These particular regions are rising up the charts on this report relatively quickly as their governments alter old statutes to meet their new standards. Universal, Indivisible, Interdependent Human rights are described as universal, indivisible, and interdependent. This is not only true for the individual, but also between individuals, as the exercise of rights and responsibilities often impact more than just one person. As human beings, gay people are naturally related to other human beings - a parent, child, sibling, grandparent, etc. These additional humans suffer collateral damage to their own human rights when the human rights of their gay relative are violated or denied. For example, 1) an elderly parent may rely upon an adult child for financial support, and so the right to work free from discrimination for an adult gay child directly affects the parent's well being and security; 2) in the event of their own demise, a person may wish to designate their gay sibling as the legal guardian of their surviving children, thus the ability of gay individuals to adopt impacts the parent's right to have their final wishes fulfilled; 3) a biological or adopted child has added security and stability in a two parent home, thus securing gay parents the human right to marry impacts the human rights of the child. Related Resource Yogyakarta Principles The Yogyakarta Principles are a set of principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. The Principles affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply.