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LGBTI Community as a New Minority
Polendová, Markéta ; Scheu, Harald Christian (advisor) ; Tymofeyeva, Alla (referee)
Thesis title LGBTI Community as a New Minority Abstract The thesis focuses on the legal status of LGBTI people, specifically in regards to the possibility of labelling the LGBTI community as a minority in the sense of minority law, which is traditionally associated with national, linguistic, and religious minorities. The work aims to evaluate the potential of the LGBTI community to fulfil the defining characteristics of a minority and subsequently analyses minority rights with regard to the possibility of granting them to LGBTI people. Further, the thesis focuses on the position of the LGBTI minority in EU law. The thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part introduces the terms that are built upon in the following chapters. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis of the features of the minority definition, i.e. the objective and subjective criterion, aiming to determine the possibile fulfilment of each individual minority characteristics by the LGBTI community. Problematic aspects arising in connection with the specific structure of the LGBTI community, especially its internal diversity and the difficult verification of the differentiating characteristics of individual members, are emphasised. Following the analysis of the minority status of the LGBTI community, the thesis...
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