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The human rights of LGBT people should be a foreign policy priority of the U.S. government.

Too often the human rights of LGBT people are regarded as a “gay issue” and sidelined as a result. LGBT rights are human rights, period, and we’re working to ensure that the U.S. government advances them abroad. We focus on protecting LGBT refugees, combating violent hate crime against LGBT people, and opposing bans on homosexuality and other discriminatory laws. Photo: AP.

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Published on May 1, 2016

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