In a world where the universality of human rights is increasingly contested, our governments must ask themselves a fundamental question: do they still believe that human rights belong to everyone? The undermining of the rights of LGBTI people serves as the tip of the spear in a broader backlash against human rights protection overall. They scapegoat marginalised groups, present basic equality as a threat to traditional family values or children and dismiss international law as “ideology”. Reflecting on the impact of the Yogyakarta Principles, one young gay man noted: “I am now, under International Human Rights Law, officially human. It is time for countries everywhere to double down on the simple promise that human rights belong to everyone.