Anti-woman discrimination around the world is a double whammy if you’re queer
Erin Kilbride is a women’s rights and LGBT rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.
An activist I worked with once in Tunisia told me she lost the love of her life to a man. Her then-girlfriend was in her mid-20s, and her parents – in line with what was expected of them as Tunisian parents of a young woman – lined up a respectable young man that she had to marry. The activist told me this was all too common for queer women in Tunisia. “[Many have] either been coerced into marrying a man or been broken up with by a girlfriend who was coerced into marrying a man,” she said. “It’s everywhere. It’s the backdrop to our lives.”
I’ve spent the past year interviewing lesbian, bisexual and queer women and non-binary activists about the biggest, most life-altering human rights violations and threats they face. Very few of them wanted to talk about the criminalization of same-sex conduct, marriage equality, or other hot-button LGBT rights issues. Instead, across interviews with activists in 26 countries, the No. 1 concern among LBQ+ women was being coerced into marrying a man.
Even in countries with laws explicitly forbidding forced marriage, access to land and property is often tied to having a husband. According to World Bank data, two-fifths of countries worldwide
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