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American Journal of Public Health, Vol 91, Issue 6 861-864, Copyright © 2001 by American Public Health Association

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Uneasy promises: sexuality, health, and human rights

AM Miller
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven, B-2, New York, NY 10032, USA. am808@columbia.edu

Although attention to the links between health and human rights is growing globally, the full potential of a progressive human rights approach to health has not yet been explored, and it is even more faintly understood in the United States than in the rest of the world. At the same time, global claims for sexual rights, particularly for those identifying as gay, lesbian, transsexual, or bisexual, are increasingly being made as human rights claims. All of these approaches to rights advocacy risk limiting their own transformative impact unless advocates critique their own strategies. Paradoxically, using health as a way to bring attention to nonheteronormative sexualities can be both helpful and potentially dangerous, especially when coupled with human rights. Recognizing sexuality as a critical element of humanity, and establishing a fundamental human right to health, can play a role in broader social justice claims, but the tendency of both public health and human rights advocacy to "normalize" and regulate must be scrutinized and challenged.


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