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  • Attacks on Obama Administration’s LGBT policy shames Christianity

    Naturally, religious right groups and some of those on the right in general aren’t happy with the Obama Administration’s announcement this week against LGBT persecution worldwide, or Hillary Clinton’s speech in which she declared “gays rights are human rights.” It’s a sad statement on what Christianity has become in America.

  • Hillary Clinton’s historic LGBT speech provides hope and change

    Hillary Clinton’s soaring speech on international LGBT issues was game changing. An historic address of this magnitude was desperately needed to counter the rising tide of backwards and barbaric nations that had recently been persecuting LGBT people to distract from their glaring problems.

  • Clinton: ‘Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights’

    “Today, I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people who’s human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today,” Clinton said. “In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed…

  • Obama sets new course for LGBT rights in U.S. foreign policy

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday directed that the federal government and all agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons globally.

  • Ellen DeGeneres named special envoy for global AIDS awareness

    BETHESDA, Md. — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday announced that talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been named as a Special U.S. Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness. Clinton made the announcement during a major policy speech to the National Institutes of Health on HIV-AIDS issues, and in letter to DeGeneres, Clinton wrote: […]

  • UN passes historic resolution calling for universal rights for LGBTQ persons

    The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday approved a resolution supporting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation.

  • Clinton issues statement supporting International Day Against Homophobia

    Today, May 17, is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the seventh annual event to bring attention to LGBT issues in more than 50 countries.

  • Obama Administration asks United Nations to support LGBT rights

    The Obama administration, on Tuesday, introduced a declaration to the United Nations calling for better treatment and protections for LGBT people internationally.

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  • United Nations restores ‘sexual orientation’ to anti-execution resolution

    In a follow-up to a story we covered last month, the United Nations last week voted to restore a reference to killings due to sexual orientation that had been deleted from a resolution condemning unjustified executions.

  • Obama, Clinton tell LGBT youth: ‘It Gets Better’ (Videos)

    President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week joined the thousands of Americans that have come together as part of the It Gets Better Project to share stories of hope and encouragement for LGBT youth who are struggling with bullying and intolerance over their sexual orientation. “I don’t know what it’s like […]