Although it is a general term, Equality, in modern parlance, has come to define the fight for social and legal rights of the LGBT community across the globe. From recognition of same-sex marriages to protest against anti-LGBT rights, equality covers all. Human Rights associations all over the world have supported the fight for Equality and have recognized them as the fight for human rights including civil and legal rights. In most societies, the people belonging to the LGBT community have been castigated and ostracized as retards and abnormal beings. Their marriage rights are not recognized by most states and some even punish them for their sexual orientations. The organized movement of the LGBT community has gone global in the last decade and have forced many countries to pass laws in to protect their interests as well as to prevent criminal activities against its members.

Almost every print and electronic media covers the LGBT right to equality movements thoroughly and yet there are issue and facts regarding this movement that has not reached the common people. Some of these facts are:

• Most of the countries including superpowers like India has some essentially anti-LGBT laws upheld by the respective states and their judiciary system. This includes consensual sexual-relationship between two adults of the same gender.

• The United Nations Human Rights Council passed the first resolution regarding this issue in 2011, recognizing LGBT rights.

• A report from the UN Human Rights Commission documented and presented to the UN a violation of the rights of LGBT people across the globe. This report included legal discriminations and hate-crimes.

• Most of the autonomous governing bodies including sports bodies can take action against any sort of inequality meted out to a member. But while they act strictly against anti-racist behaviour, they take no action against the violence against LGBT people.

• Bullying of the gay people in social, academic or military institutions remain an endemic problem.

• Most of the official forms of governments and non-government organizations have a provision for the recognition of the applicant as a handicapped or a sportsperson or an ex-serviceman. But there is no such provision for the recognition of the LGBT community people.

• Only 31 countries in the whole world have granted rights to same-sex marriage completely or partially. The American continent remains the leader in this respect.

• The only region of the world where all countries treat homosexuality as a criminal offence is the Central Asian region.

• The incidents of violence against LGBT people in Scotland have attracted attention of the human rights associations but the position of the Scottish government on the issue is not yet clear.

• In USA, the LGBT people are excluded from the privilege of enjoying more than 1000 legal rights as secured by the 14th amendment of the constitution.

These are only some of the facts about the fight to Equality that the common people know less about. The equality is treated as part of human rights and should be supported by all people who believe in human rights.