Hillary Clinton's Landmark Speech to the UN on LGBT Rights:
VIDEO Here's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's historic and
unprecedented speech to the UN today on LGBT rights. Says
Clinton, in her opening: Today, I want to talk about the work we
have left to do to protect one group of people whose human
rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In
many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested,
beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with
contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities
empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even
join in the abuse. They are denied opportunities to work and
learn, driven from their homes and countries, and forced to
suppress or deny who they are to protect themselves from harm. I
am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people,
human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity,
who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the
remaining human rights challenges