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The 2019 Physical Sciences Climate Survey was the first investigation of the working, teaching and studying climate for LGBT+ physicists, astronomers and chemists in the UK. This study brought into stark focus the isolation, exclusion and outright discrimination faced by individuals with minority sexual orientations, gender identities that lie outside of the societal model which classifies humans into binary categories that a person always, solely and completely identifies with, and intersex traits/variations in sex characteristics. In this talk, I'll present an overview of the current international picture of LGBTQIA+ rights and freedoms, highlight results from studies into barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion across the sciences, and celebrate the work being done by a variety of groups to support LGBTQIA+ astronomers.
