evidence: - Document and map violence against LBQ+ couples to better understand how and in what couples LBQ+ people are punished for appearing in public together, and how this violates their rights not only as LGBT people, but also their rights to freedom of assembly and association. [...] Social and legal struggles to decriminalize homosexuality, repeal colonial era anti-sodomy laws, and legalize marriage equality for queer couples are not prerequisites for obtaining parental rights, including the rights to adopt and to access fertility treatment, which this report found to be highly important to LBQ+ interviewees. Research and policy guidance produced by queer collectives themselves offer direction in overcoming the presumed normative order of LBQ+ rights. Research on the Lived Experiences of LBQ Women in Kenya[585]—a country that continues to criminalize same-sex conduct—calls on the government and public health officials to "inform LBQ women about the different pathways to starting a family as LBQ+ women in Kenya," regardless of the status of same-sex conduct decriminalization efforts. The lives of LBQ+ people around the world would be markedly improved by the existence of LBQ+-centered reproductive education; the removal of discriminatory couples-only adoption laws in Japan; the creation of functioning reproductive health services in Argentina that allow LBQ+ people of all genders to avail themselves of the country’s model fertility laws; and campaigns to destigmatize adoption in general in Zimbabwe. None of these require or should be predicated on the decriminalization of same-sex conduct.