LGBT and multiculturalism is the diversity within LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community as a representation of different sexual orientations, gender identities—as well as different ethnic, language, religious groups within LGBT community. At the same time as LGBT and multiculturalism relation we may consider the inclusion of LGBT community into a larger multicultural model, as for example in universities[1], such multicultural model includes the LGBT community together and equal representation with other large minority groups such as African Americans in the United States.
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On one hand, the two movements have much in common politically. Both are concerned with tolerance for real differences, diversity, minority status, and the invalidity of value judgments applied to different ways of life. On the other hand, many LGBT political organizers can't help but notice that the only tolerance and acceptance available to sexual minority people in the world is extended by predominantly white and/or westernized, rich and well-educated segments of the Western, East Asian and Latin American worlds.
Peter Tatchell has described Sharia law as "a clerical form of fascism"[2] on the grounds that it opposes democracy and human rights, especially for women and gay people. He was the keynote speaker at a 2005 protest at the Canadian High Commission over Ontario's arbitration law, which already permitted religious arbitration in civil cases for Jews and Christians, being extended to Muslims. Tatchell argued there should be no separate systems of arbitration for any religion.[3] In 1995 he wrote that "although not all Muslims are anti-gay, significant numbers are violently homophobic .. homophobic Muslim voters may be able to influence the outcome of elections in 20 or more marginal constituencies."[4]
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