“LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones.  And they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship.  That includes marriage.  That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples.  I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law embedded in a [...]

The United Nations General Assembly has just adopted the USA’s amendment to restore “sexual orientation” to the Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions.  The vote on the amendment was 93 yes, 55 no with 27 abstentions.  The General Assembly then went on to adopt the Resolution itself by a vote of 122 to 0, [...]

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter in January to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk because of his concern over what he called the barbarity of Uganda‘s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill (“kill the gays bill”). In his response to Senator Wyden, the Department of State’s Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, [...]