Ottawa’s advice for travelers to check local laws in the U.S. comes amid a surge in state legislation targeting LGBTQ rights this year.
U.S. and Canadian flags are displayed on a table during U.S. Independence Day celebrations at Lornado, the official residence of the U.S. ambassador to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
The page also links to broader advice on how LGBTQ people are subject to local laws at their travel destinations, “even if these laws infringe on your human rights.” “We have professionals in the government whose job is to look carefully around the world and to monitor whether there are particular dangers to particular groups of Canadians,” she said, adding that it was “the right thing to do.”
Logan S. Casey, who serves as a senior researcher at the Movement Advancement Project, which tracks the legislation, said at the time that the rise in such laws was “part of a very clear and identifiable national effort in state legislatures that is and has been going on for years - and it’s really culminating this year.”
In Canada, those seeking to target LGBTQ rights through legislation have had far less success. But they often employ the same language and tactics of their U.S. counterparts, advocates for the LGBTQ community say.
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