This is a survey class on the rights, recognition, and struggles of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, queer-identified people, and other non-heterosexual individuals and sexual orientation & gender identity minorities both in the Global North as well as the Global South. The course proceeds in three segments. We will begin with a broad overview of the discourse of human rights in international law and then survey the literature on the rights of sexual minorities. In doing so, we will familiarize ourselves not only with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Yogyakarta Principles, and so on. In addition, we will analyze the scholarship on both the marriage equality movement as well as the claims of radical/queer critics of marriage. In the remaining two segments, we will examine the rights, accomplishments, and struggles of LGBTQ+ individuals, first in the Global North (with a focus on the United States and Britain) and then in the Global South (particularly South Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America).