Collect policy data

[fsolt]

• [ ] marriage equality
• [ ] civil unions
• [ ] adoption equality
• [ ] nondiscrimination in employment (maybe?)
• [ ] criminalization/decriminalization

[byngdeuk]

Below wiki well summarizes policies & legislation about LGBT rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory

1. Same-sex sexual activity
2. Recognition of same-sex unions (might be a civil unions?)
3. Same-sex marriage (might be marriage equality?)
4. Adoption by same-sex couples (might be adoption equality?)
5. LGB people allowed to serve openly in military
6. Anti-discrimination laws concerning sexual orientation (might be nondiscrimination in employment?)
7. Laws concerning gender identity/expression

[byngdeuk]

In addition, below website summarizes criminalization legislations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory

[fsolt]

This looks like a good list of policies to examine (mine was just off of the top of my head). We'll have to mine the footnotes for the original sources, though.

[fsolt]

And recall the takeaway of the lab's other discussion last week: data collection really has to be replicable, scripted from the raw sources forward. When you've identified good original sources, we can review scraping data from the web and/or PDFs during a lab meeting if you'd like. (My bet is everyone would like that.)

[fsolt]

Another possible source (or source of sources): https://rainbow-europe.org/country-ranking