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href="/news/topic/lgbt"><span class="n6NlI">LGBT+</span></a> muny, promotg equaly and diversy across society. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even today,<strong class="_1ATDh"> </strong>LGBT+ people face prejudice and discrimatn, but for many liv have been improved and saved by those trailblazers and pneers that have gone before. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Here are 10 LGBT+ who have changed the liv or their muny, untry and the world.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Barbara Gtgs</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Many of this si of the Atlantic may not know her name, but Ms Gtgs is wily regard as the mother of the LGBT+ civil rights movement, blazg a trail for future generatns durg a time when was dangero to be openly gay. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1958, Ms Gtgs started the New York chapter of the Dghters of Bilis (DOB), the first lbian civil rights anisatn the Uned Stat origally found San Francis.</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Kay Tob Lahen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement holdg a portra of her late partner Barbara Gtgs,<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She eded the first US lbian magaze, The Ladr om 1963 to 1966, g as a rallyg cry for equaly.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Together wh Frank Kameny, another leadg Amerin gay rights activist, Ms Gtgs helped anise the first public monstratns for gay and lbian equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The first monstratn ont of Inpennce Hall on July 4, 1964, attracted 40 prottors; by the time of fal prott 1969, that number had more than tripled. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Gtgs' succsful csas for lbian equaly clud promotg gay lerature and elimatg discrimatn Ameri's librari, and mandg the classifitn of homosexualy as a mental disorr by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Christe Jensen</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Christe served the US army durg the Send World War before beg one of the first people the Uned Stat to have genr reassignment surgery. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Her story ma headl across Ameri after she transned the 1950s, her glamour bed wh her heroism a ptivatg mix. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">On December 1, 1952, she ma the ont page of the New York Daily News unr the headle “Ex-GI Be Blon Bety: Operatns Transform Bronx Youth.”</p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Christe Jensen 1977.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But she was far more than a celebry and she ed her platform to advote for the rights of transgenr people and shape a disurse, fightg hard for equaly. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Jensen fluenced other transgenr people to change their nam on their birth certifit after she was nied a marriage licence bee her birth certifite intified her as a male.</p><hr/><ul class="xhBdb" data-ttid="list"><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-16/dismissed-lgbt-veterans-n-apply-to-reclaim-nfisted-medals"><span class="n6NlI">Gay veteran says he has to go 'back to his bully' to reclaim his medals</span></a></p></li><li class="t9HgO" data-ttid="list-em"><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/2021-02-13/i-wanted-a-space-where-we-uld-reprent-honour-and-celebrate-black-queer-life--the-"><span class="n6NlI">'I wanted a space where we uld reprent, honour and celebrate black queer life the UK'</span></a></p></li></ul><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">The Glamour Boys</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Alan Turg was not the only member of the LBGT+ muny to play a part fluencg the ti of the 20th century. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">This group of like-md MPs were among the earlit to warn the untry and the world about the dangers of Hler's rise Germany, and faced ridicule and worse for their urage. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Labelled the Glamour Boys by then prime mister Neville Chamberla as an suatn of their sexualy, the five keys members, Robert Bernays, Ronald Cartland, Victor Cazalet, John Maamara, and Anthony Muirhead had their phon tapped, were harassed, and threatened wh selectn and exposure for refg to be silenced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">As regular visors to Berl, the men saw first hand the persecutn of Jewish people and other mory groups cludg homosexuals. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">They refed to be silenced and were stmental Bra not bowg to Hler. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">When war me, they enlisted; four of them died actn. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Osr Wil</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Flamboyant Irish dramatist, novelist, poet and w, Wil was a glterg star of late Victorian London society, a huge h wh those who were very often the target of his satiril eye. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>His ic masterpiec have ensured his legacy, cludg Lady Wrmere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ial Hband (1895) and The Importance of Beg Earnt (1895), were ntemporary hs, and ntue to be performed today, wh many turned to films, but his illtr reer was cut celly short. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Osr Wil was an Irish poet and playwright</figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1884, Wil married a wealthy Englishwoman, Constance Lloyd and the uple had two sons. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His homosexualy was somethg of an open secret upon his circl, spe beg illegal at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But his affair wh Lord Aled Douglas was to prove his downfall after 'Bosie's' father the <span class="LjyUJ"></span>Marquis of Queensberry left a llg rd at the playwright's home addrsed to "Osr Wil: Posg Somdome" (sic).</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Wil was so censed by the note that he sued Queensberry for libel, a cisn that would his life. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span>The libel se was thrown out after the urt was prented wh evince of Wil's homosexualy. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Instead, he was arrted on charg of "gross cency" 1895. He was imprisoned for two years Readg Gaol and died poverty three years after his release at the age of 46. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Alan Turg<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>There are few people who n say they lerally changed the urse of history, but Mr Turg's breakg geni did jt that. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg and his fellow Bletchley Park breakers ciphered the ary 'Enigma' s ed by Germany and s alli durg the Send World War, a breakthrough that is often creded for shorteng the war by several years. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">World War Two breaker Alan Turg was given a posthumo royal pardon 2013.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->PA</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">In 1945, Turg was award an OBE for his wartime work and went on to work on what would be a precursor to puters, the Turg Mache.<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span>But 1952, Mr Turg was arrted for homosexualy – then illegal Bra. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was found guilty of ‘gross cency’ and was chemilly strated. In 1954, he was found ad om cyani poisong. An qut led that was suici.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mr Turg's ccial role crackg the enigma remaed a secret until the 1970s and his story only me to light the 1990s. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His nvictn was overturned 2013 and he is now a regnised natnal hero and the face of the £50 note. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Marta Navratilova and Julia Lemia<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->Rters</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Marta Navratilova<span class="LjyUJ"></span></strong>Czech-born Navratilova is nsired one of the bt tennis players of all time, her immaculate grass urt game helpg her w a rerd ne Wimbledon tl. Throughout her reer she won an unprecented 59 Grand Slam tl. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">But was not jt her skills on the urt that changed the woman's game and tennis, her urage to live her life on her own terms ma her a champn away om tennis.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She was the first openly gay athlete, g out 1981 to a world where stutnal homophobia, pecially the rarefied rridors of tennis, was the norm. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms Navratilova would spend much of her reer overg prejudic and stereotyp - refg to be anythg other than her te self meant losg lns of dollars endorsement als. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She ntu to fight for equal rights and a strong supporter of many chari which directly benef the LGBT+ muny. <span class="LjyUJ"></span><span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Jam Baldw</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The Ain Amerin wrer was a bold, brave voice a time before the Amerin Civil Rights movement. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of the foremost wrers on the 20th century, his plays, novels and says, cludg Not of a Native Son, explore race and sexualy segregated and homophobic Ameri.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He beme active the civil rights stggle on his return to the US 1957 after several years Paris. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Jam Baldw at his home, June 3, 1963, New York.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Shortly after his arrival Paris, Baldw met seventeen-year-old Swiss artist Lucien Happersberger. “In Paris,” Baldw said, “I didn’t feel socially attacked, but relaxed, and that allowed me to be loved.”<span class="LjyUJ"></span> <span class="LjyUJ"></span><strong class="_1ATDh">Ellen DeGener</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The edian and actor turned chat show host was, for many middle Amerins, the first lbian they had heard of - and embraced. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Ms DeGener faced tense tabloid scty after she me out 1997 -   a now famo episo of the ABC s <i>Ellen - </i>that railed her reer and left her prsed. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Ellen DeGener prentg an MTV Mic Award. <span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">It wasn’t until 2003 and the begng of the Ellen DeGener Show that she ma a eback - and what a eback. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Chat show host Ellen DeGener has bee a pneer the fight for LGBT+ equal rights and visibily. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Frida Kahlo </strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Mexin pater Kahlo was open about her bisexualy at time when uld have signalled the end of her reer. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">She married pater Diego Rivera 1929, but their marriage was never a nventnal one, her lovers moured to clu the sger Josephe Baker and artist Geia O'Keefe. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Pater and surrealist Frida Kahlo at home 1939.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Dpe a life changg accint at the age of 18, Kahlo pated right up until the end of her life. Frequently bed bound, she had a mirror built on the ceilg orr to be able to study herself for her now inic self-portras. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">The nstant pa she lived fluenced her patg, but as her work evolved she brought inography om Mexin and digeno culture. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">While her lourful life sometim eclips her talent as an artist, the symbolism, urage and creativy of her patgs ensure that her reputatn as one of the 20th century's great artists ntu. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">Harvey Milk</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Milk was first openly gay elected official the history of California when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">Even before he took public office he was a vol gay rights advote. An engagg speaker, one of his most famo speech lled for people to e out as a time when took great urage. </p><figure class="A8Lwr m-O"><div class="cp_placeholr"></div><figptn class="Ya3u6 SilLI" data-ttid="ptned-picture-ptn">Harvey Milk pictured takg part a gay eedom para 1978.<span class="mjYl8"> Cred: <!-- -->AP</span></figptn></figure><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">“Gay people, we will not w our rights by stayg quietly our closets... </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to fight the li, the myths, the distortns. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">"We are g out to tell the tths about gays, for I am tired of the nspiracy of silence, so I’m gog to talk about . And I want you to talk about . You mt e out.”</p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He was assassated nearly a year after takg office aged 48, a fate he had always expected given the opprsn and hatred directed at gay people at the time. </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">He rerd several versns of his will, “to be read the event of my assassatn.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">One of his tap ntaed the statement: “If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door.” </p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX">His life was the subject of the 2008 film, Milk. </p><hr/><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"><strong class="_1ATDh">ITV News is showsg the liv, legaci and stori of dividuals throughout LGBT+ History Month, read more the seri </strong><a class="qNUzV q7LZa" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/news/topic/lgbt-history-month"><span class="n6NlI"><strong class="_1ATDh">here</strong></span></a><strong class="_1ATDh">.</strong></p><p class="A8Lwr BVYCX"></p></div><footer data-ttid="article-footer"><div class="cQTzz C04KI" data-ttid="tag-list"><ul 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Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins.

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ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * lgbt speeches *

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AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

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I WANT TO THANK DIRECTOR GENERAL TOKAYEV AND MS. WYN ALONG WH OTHER MISTERS, AMBASSADORS, EXCELLENCI, AND UN PARTNERS. THIS WEEKEND, WE WILL CELEBRATE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, THE ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE GREAT ACPLISHMENTS OF THE LAST CENTURY.BEGNG 1947, LEGAT OM SIX NTENTS VOTED THEMSELV TO DRAFTG A CLARATN THAT WOULD ENSHRE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND EEDOMS OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II, MANY NATNS PRSED FOR A STATEMENT OF THIS KD TO HELP ENSURE THAT WE WOULD PREVENT FUTURE ATROCI AND PROTECT THE HERENT HUMANY AND DIGNY OF ALL PEOPLE. AND SO THE LEGAT WENT TO WORK. THEY DISCSED, THEY WROTE, THEY REVISED, REVISED, REWROTE, FOR THOANDS OF HOURS. AND THEY RPORATED SUGGTNS AND REVISNS OM ERNMENTS, ANIZATNS, AND DIVIDUALS AROUND THE WORLD. AT THREE O’CLOCK THE MORNG ON DECEMBER 10TH, 1948, AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS OF DRAFTG AND ONE LAST LONG NIGHT OF BATE, THE PRINT OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY LLED FOR A VOTE ON THE FAL TEXT. FORTY-EIGHT NATNS VOTED FAVOR; EIGHT ABSTAED; NONE DISSENTED. AND THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WAS ADOPTED. IT PROCLAIMS A SIMPLE, POWERFUL IA: ALL HUMAN BEGS ARE BORN EE AND EQUAL DIGNY AND RIGHTS. AND WH THE CLARATN, WAS MA CLEAR THAT RIGHTS ARE NOT NFERRED BY ERNMENT; THEY ARE THE BIRTHRIGHT OF ALL PEOPLE. IT DO NOT MATTER WHAT UNTRY WE LIVE , WHO OUR LEARS ARE, OR EVEN WHO WE ARE. BEE WE ARE HUMAN, WE THEREFORE HAVE RIGHTS. AND BEE WE HAVE RIGHTS, ERNMENTS ARE BOUND TO PROTECT THEM. IN THE 63 YEARS SCE THE CLARATN WAS ADOPTED, MANY NATNS HAVE MA GREAT PROGRS MAKG HUMAN RIGHTS A HUMAN REALY. STEP BY STEP, BARRIERS THAT ONCE PREVENTED PEOPLE OM ENJOYG THE FULL MEASURE OF LIBERTY, THE FULL EXPERIENCE OF DIGNY, AND THE FULL BENEFS OF HUMANY HAVE FALLEN AWAY. IN MANY PLAC, RACIST LAWS HAVE BEEN REPEALED, LEGAL AND SOCIAL PRACTIC THAT RELEGATED WOMEN TO SEND-CLASS STAT HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED, THE ABILY OF RELIG MORI TO PRACTICE THEIR FAH EELY HAS BEEN SECURED. IN MOST S, THIS PROGRS WAS NOT EASILY WON. PEOPLE FOUGHT AND ANIZED AND MPAIGNED PUBLIC SQUAR AND PRIVATE SPAC TO CHANGE NOT ONLY LAWS, BUT HEARTS AND MDS. AND THANKS TO THAT WORK OF GENERATNS, FOR LNS OF DIVIDUALS WHOSE LIV WERE ONCE NARROWED BY JTICE, THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO LIVE MORE EELY AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY THE POLIL, ENOMIC, AND SOCIAL LIV OF THEIR MUNI. NOW, THERE IS STILL, AS YOU ALL KNOW, MUCH MORE TO BE DONE TO SECURE THAT MMENT, THAT REALY, AND PROGRS FOR ALL PEOPLE. TODAY, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE WORK WE HAVE LEFT TO DO TO PROTECT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS ARE STILL NIED TOO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD TODAY. IN MANY WAYS, THEY ARE AN VISIBLE MORY. THEY ARE ARRTED, BEATEN, TERRORIZED, EVEN EXECUTED. MANY ARE TREATED WH NTEMPT AND VLENCE BY THEIR FELLOW CIZENS WHILE THORI EMPOWERED TO PROTECT THEM LOOK THE OTHER WAY OR, TOO OFTEN, EVEN JO THE ABE. THEY ARE NIED OPPORTUNI TO WORK AND LEARN, DRIVEN OM THEIR HOM AND UNTRI, AND FORCED TO SUPPRS OR NY WHO THEY ARE TO PROTECT THEMSELV OM HARM. I AM TALKG ABOUT GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE, HUMAN BEGS BORN EE AND GIVEN BTOWED EQUALY AND DIGNY, WHO HAVE A RIGHT TO CLAIM THAT, WHICH IS NOW ONE OF THE REMAG HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENG OF OUR TIME. I SPEAK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT KNOWG THAT MY OWN UNTRY’S RERD ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR GAY PEOPLE IS FAR OM PERFECT. UNTIL 2003, WAS STILL A CRIME PARTS OF OUR UNTRY. MANY LGBT AMERINS HAVE ENDURED VLENCE AND HARASSMENT THEIR OWN LIV, AND FOR SOME, CLUDG MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, BULLYG AND EXCLN ARE DAILY EXPERIENC. SO WE, LIKE ALL NATNS, HAVE MORE WORK TO DO TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME. NOW, RAISG THIS ISSUE, I KNOW, IS SENSIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE AND THAT THE OBSTACL STANDG THE WAY OF PROTECTG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE RT ON EPLY HELD PERSONAL, POLIL, CULTURAL, AND RELIG BELIEFS. SO I E HERE BEFORE YOU WH RPECT, UNRSTANDG, AND HUY. EVEN THOUGH PROGRS ON THIS ONT IS NOT EASY, WE NNOT LAY ACTG. SO THAT SPIR, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFICULT AND IMPORTANT ISSU WE MT ADDRS TOGETHER TO REACH A GLOBAL NSENS THAT REGNIZ THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBT CIZENS EVERYWHERE. THE FIRST ISSUE GO TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER. SOME HAVE SUGGTED THAT GAY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE SEPARATE AND DISTCT; BUT, FACT, THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME. NOW, OF URSE, 60 YEARS AGO, THE ERNMENTS THAT DRAFTED AND PASSED THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WERE NOT THKG ABOUT HOW APPLIED TO THE LGBT MUNY. THEY ALSO WEREN’T THKG ABOUT HOW APPLIED TO DIGENO PEOPLE OR CHILDREN OR PEOPLE WH DISABILI OR OTHER MARGALIZED GROUPS. YET THE PAST 60 YEARS, WE HAVE E TO REGNIZE THAT MEMBERS OF THE GROUPS ARE ENTLED TO THE FULL MEASURE OF DIGNY AND RIGHTS, BEE, LIKE ALL PEOPLE, THEY SHARE A MON HUMANY. THIS REGNN DID NOT OCCUR ALL AT ONCE. IT EVOLVED OVER TIME. AND AS DID, WE UNRSTOOD THAT WE WERE HONORG RIGHTS THAT PEOPLE ALWAYS HAD, RATHER THAN CREATG NEW OR SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR THEM. LIKE BEG A WOMAN, LIKE BEG A RACIAL, RELIG, TRIBAL, OR ETHNIC MORY, BEG LGBT DO NOT MAKE YOU LS HUMAN. AND THAT IS WHY GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE GAY RIGHTS. IT IS VLATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEATEN OR KILLED BEE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, OR BEE THEY DO NOT NFORM TO CULTURAL NORMS ABOUT HOW MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD LOOK OR BEHAVE. IT IS A VLATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN ERNMENTS CLARE ILLEGAL TO BE GAY, OR ALLOW THOSE WHO HARM GAY PEOPLE TO GO UNPUNISHED. IT IS A VLATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN LBIAN OR TRANSGENRED WOMEN ARE SUBJECTED TO SO-LLED RRECTIVE RAPE, OR FORCIBLY SUBJECTED TO HORMONE TREATMENTS, OR WHEN PEOPLE ARE MURRED AFTER PUBLIC LLS FOR VLENCE TOWARD GAYS, OR WHEN THEY ARE FORCED TO FLEE THEIR NATNS AND SEEK ASYLUM OTHER LANDS TO SAVE THEIR LIV. AND IS A VLATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN LIFE-SAVG RE IS WHHELD OM PEOPLE BEE THEY ARE GAY, OR EQUAL ACCS TO JTICE IS NIED TO PEOPLE BEE THEY ARE GAY, OR PUBLIC SPAC ARE OUT OF BOUNDS TO PEOPLE BEE THEY ARE GAY. NO MATTER WHAT WE LOOK LIKE, WHERE WE E OM, OR WHO WE ARE, WE ARE ALL EQUALLY ENTLED TO OUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNY. THE SEND ISSUE IS A QUTN OF WHETHER HOMOSEXUALY ARIS OM A PARTICULAR PART OF THE WORLD. SOME SEEM TO BELIEVE IS A WTERN PHENOMENON, AND THEREFORE PEOPLE OUTSI THE WT HAVE GROUNDS TO REJECT . WELL, REALY, GAY PEOPLE ARE BORN TO AND BELONG TO EVERY SOCIETY THE WORLD. THEY ARE ALL AG, ALL RAC, ALL FAHS; THEY ARE DOCTORS AND TEACHERS, FARMERS AND BANKERS, SOLDIERS AND ATHLET; AND WHETHER WE KNOW , OR WHETHER WE ACKNOWLEDGE , THEY ARE OUR FAY, OUR IENDS, AND OUR NEIGHBORS. BEG GAY IS NOT A WTERN VENTN; IS A HUMAN REALY. AND PROTECTG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE, GAY OR STRAIGHT, IS NOT SOMETHG THAT ONLY WTERN ERNMENTS DO. SOUTH AI’S NSTUTN, WRTEN THE AFTERMATH OF APARTHEID, PROTECTS THE EQUALY OF ALL CIZENS, CLUDG GAY PEOPLE. IN COLOMBIA AND ARGENTA, THE RIGHTS OF GAYS ARE ALSO LEGALLY PROTECTED. IN NEPAL, THE SUPREME URT HAS LED THAT EQUAL RIGHTS APPLY TO LGBT CIZENS. THE GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA HAS MTED TO PURSUE NEW LEGISLATN THAT WILL TACKLE ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN. NOW, SOME WORRY THAT PROTECTG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY IS A LUXURY THAT ONLY WEALTHY NATNS N AFFORD. BUT FACT, ALL UNTRI, THERE ARE STS TO NOT PROTECTG THE RIGHTS, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT LIV LOST TO DISEASE AND VLENCE, AND THE SILENCG OF VOIC AND VIEWS THAT WOULD STRENGTHEN MUNI, IAS NEVER PURSUED BY ENTREPRENRS WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY. COSTS ARE CURRED WHENEVER ANY GROUP IS TREATED AS LSER OR THE OTHER, WHETHER THEY ARE WOMEN, RACIAL, OR RELIG MORI, OR THE LGBT. FORMER PRINT MOGAE OF BOTSWANA POTED OUT RECENTLY THAT FOR AS LONG AS LGBT PEOPLE ARE KEPT THE SHADOWS, THERE NNOT BE AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM TO TACKLE HIV AND AIDS. WELL, THAT HOLDS TE FOR OTHER CHALLENG AS WELL. THE THIRD, AND PERHAPS MOST CHALLENGG, ISSUE ARIS WHEN PEOPLE CE RELIG OR CULTURAL VALU AS A REASON TO VLATE OR NOT TO PROTECT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBT CIZENS. THIS IS NOT UNLIKE THE JTIFITN OFFERED FOR VLENT PRACTIC TOWARDS WOMEN LIKE HONOR KILLGS, WIDOW BURNG, OR FEMALE GENAL MUTILATN. SOME PEOPLE STILL FEND THOSE PRACTIC AS PART OF A CULTURAL TRADN. BUT VLENCE TOWARD WOMEN ISN’T CULTURAL; ’S CRIMAL. LIKEWISE WH SLAVERY, WHAT WAS ONCE JTIFIED AS SANCTNED BY GOD IS NOW PROPERLY REVILED AS AN UNNSCNABLE VLATN OF HUMAN RIGHTS. IN EACH OF THE S, WE ME TO LEARN THAT NO PRACTICE OR TRADN TMPS THE HUMAN RIGHTS THAT BELONG TO ALL OF . AND THIS HOLDS TE FOR FLICTG VLENCE ON LGBT PEOPLE, CRIMALIZG THEIR STAT OR BEHAVR, EXPELLG THEM OM THEIR FAI AND MUNI, OR TACLY OR EXPLICLY ACCEPTG THEIR KILLG. OF URSE, BEARS NOTG THAT RARELY ARE CULTURAL AND RELIG TRADNS AND TEACHGS ACTUALLY NFLICT WH THE PROTECTN OF HUMAN RIGHTS. INED, OUR RELIGN AND OUR CULTURE ARE SOURC OF PASSN AND SPIRATN TOWARD OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEGS. IT WAS NOT ONLY THOSE WHO’VE JTIFIED SLAVERY WHO LEANED ON RELIGN, WAS ALSO THOSE WHO SOUGHT TO ABOLISH . AND LET KEEP MD THAT OUR MMENTS TO PROTECT THE EEDOM OF RELIGN AND TO FEND THE DIGNY OF LGBT PEOPLE EMANATE OM A MON SOURCE. FOR MANY OF , RELIG BELIEF AND PRACTICE IS A VAL SOURCE OF MEANG AND INTY, AND FUNDAMENTAL TO WHO WE ARE AS PEOPLE. AND LIKEWISE, FOR MOST OF , THE BONDS OF LOVE AND FAY THAT WE FE ARE ALSO VAL SOURC OF MEANG AND INTY. AND RG FOR OTHERS IS AN EXPRSN OF WHAT MEANS TO BE FULLY HUMAN. IT IS BEE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IS UNIVERSAL THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL AND CUT ACROSS ALL RELIGNS AND CULTUR. THE FOURTH ISSUE IS WHAT HISTORY TEACH ABOUT HOW WE MAKE PROGRS TOWARDS RIGHTS FOR ALL. PROGRS STARTS WH HONT DISCSN. NOW, THERE ARE SOME WHO SAY AND BELIEVE THAT ALL GAY PEOPLE ARE PEDOPHIL, THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A DISEASE THAT N BE UGHT OR CURED, OR THAT GAYS REC OTHERS TO BEE GAY. WELL, THE NOTNS ARE SIMPLY NOT TE. THEY ARE ALSO UNLIKELY TO DISAPPEAR IF THOSE WHO PROMOTE OR ACCEPT THEM ARE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND RATHER THAN VED TO SHARE THEIR FEARS AND NCERNS. NO ONE HAS EVER ABANDONED A BELIEF BEE HE WAS FORCED TO DO SO. UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLU EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND EEDOM OF BELIEF, EVEN IF OUR WORDS OR BELIEFS NIGRATE THE HUMANY OF OTHERS. YET, WHILE WE ARE EACH EE TO BELIEVE WHATEVER WE CHOOSE, WE NNOT DO WHATEVER WE CHOOSE, NOT A WORLD WHERE WE PROTECT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL. REACHG UNRSTANDG OF THE ISSU TAK MORE THAN SPEECH. IT DO TAKE A NVERSATN. IN FACT, TAK A NSTELLATN OF NVERSATNS PLAC BIG AND SMALL. AND TAK A WILLGNS TO SEE STARK DIFFERENC BELIEF AS A REASON TO BEG THE NVERSATN, NOT TO AVOID . BUT PROGRS OM CHANG LAWS. IN MANY PLAC, CLUDG MY OWN UNTRY, LEGAL PROTECTNS HAVE PRECED, NOT FOLLOWED, BROAR REGNN OF RIGHTS. LAWS HAVE A TEACHG EFFECT. LAWS THAT DISCRIMATE VALIDATE OTHER KDS OF DISCRIMATN. LAWS THAT REQUIRE EQUAL PROTECTNS RERCE THE MORAL IMPERATIVE OF EQUALY. AND PRACTILLY SPEAKG, IS OFTEN THE SE THAT LAWS MT CHANGE BEFORE FEARS ABOUT CHANGE DISSIPATE. MANY MY UNTRY THOUGHT THAT PRINT TMAN WAS MAKG A GRAVE ERROR WHEN HE ORRED THE RACIAL SEGREGATN OF OUR ARY. THEY ARGUED THAT WOULD UNRME UN HN. AND WASN’T UNTIL HE WENT AHEAD AND DID THAT WE SAW HOW STRENGTHENED OUR SOCIAL FABRIC WAYS EVEN THE SUPPORTERS OF THE POLICY ULD NOT FOREE. LIKEWISE, SOME WORRIED MY UNTRY THAT THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON OUR ARMED FORC. NOW, THE MARE CORPS COMMANDANT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE STRONGT VOIC AGAST THE REPEAL, SAYS THAT HIS NCERNS WERE UNFOUND AND THAT THE MAR HAVE EMBRACED THE CHANGE. FALLY, PROGRS OM BEG WILLG TO WALK A E SOMEONE ELSE’S SHO. WE NEED TO ASK OURSELV, “HOW WOULD FEEL IF WERE A CRIME TO LOVE THE PERSON I LOVE? HOW WOULD FEEL TO BE DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR SOMETHG ABOUT MYSELF THAT I NNOT CHANGE?” THIS CHALLENGE APPLI TO ALL OF AS WE REFLECT UPON EPLY HELD BELIEFS, AS WE WORK TO EMBRACE TOLERANCE AND RPECT FOR THE DIGNY OF ALL PERSONS, AND AS WE ENGAGE HUMBLY WH THOSE WH WHOM WE DISAGREE THE HOPE OF CREATG GREATER UNRSTANDG. A FIFTH AND FAL QUTN IS HOW WE DO OUR PART TO BRG THE WORLD TO EMBRACE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL PEOPLE CLUDG LGBT PEOPLE. Y, LGBT PEOPLE MT HELP LEAD THIS EFFORT, AS SO MANY OF YOU ARE. THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENC ARE VALUABLE AND THEIR URAGE SPIRATNAL. WE KNOW THE NAM OF BRAVE LGBT ACTIVISTS WHO HAVE LERALLY GIVEN THEIR LIV FOR THIS E, AND THERE ARE MANY MORE WHOSE NAM WE WILL NEVER KNOW. BUT OFTEN THOSE WHO ARE NIED RIGHTS ARE LEAST EMPOWERED TO BRG ABOUT THE CHANG THEY SEEK. ACTG ALONE, MORI N NEVER ACHIEVE THE MAJORI NECSARY FOR POLIL CHANGE. SO WHEN ANY PART OF HUMANY IS SILED, THE RT OF NNOT S ON THE SIL. EVERY TIME A BARRIER TO PROGRS HAS FALLEN, HAS TAKEN A OPERATIVE EFFORT OM THOSE ON BOTH SIS OF THE BARRIER. IN THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS, THE SUPPORT OF MEN REMAS CCIAL. THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALY HAS RELIED ON NTRIBUTNS OM PEOPLE OF ALL RAC. COMBATG ISLAMAPHOBIA OR ANTI-SEMISM IS A TASK FOR PEOPLE OF ALL FAHS. AND THE SAME IS TE WH THIS STGGLE FOR EQUALY. CONVERSELY, WHEN WE SEE NIALS AND AB OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FAIL TO ACT, THAT SENDS THE MSAGE TO THOSE NIERS AND ABERS THAT THEY WON’T SUFFER ANY NSEQUENC FOR THEIR ACTNS, AND SO THEY RRY ON. BUT WHEN WE DO ACT, WE SEND A POWERFUL MORAL MSAGE. RIGHT HERE GENEVA, THE TERNATNAL MUNY ACTED THIS YEAR TO STRENGTHEN A GLOBAL NSENS AROUND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE. AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MARCH, 85 UNTRI OM ALL REGNS SUPPORTED A STATEMENT LLG FOR AN END TO CRIMALIZATN AND VLENCE AGAST PEOPLE BEE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. AT THE FOLLOWG SSN OF THE COUNCIL JUNE, SOUTH AI TOOK THE LEAD ON A ROLUTN ABOUT VLENCE AGAST LGBT PEOPLE. THE LEGATN OM SOUTH AI SPOKE ELOQUENTLY ABOUT THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE AND STGGLE FOR HUMAN EQUALY AND S DIVISIBILY. WHEN THE MEASURE PASSED, BEME THE FIRST-EVER UN ROLUTN REGNIZG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF GAY PEOPLE WORLDWI. IN THE ORGANIZATN OF AMERIN STAT THIS YEAR, THE INTER-AMERIN COMMISSN ON HUMAN RIGHTS CREATED A UN ON THE RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE, A STEP TOWARD WHAT WE HOPE WILL BE THE CREATN OF A SPECIAL RAPPORTR. NOW, WE MT GO FURTHER AND WORK HERE AND EVERY REGN OF THE WORLD TO GALVANIZE MORE SUPPORT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY. TO THE LEARS OF THOSE UNTRI WHERE PEOPLE ARE JAILED, BEATEN, OR EXECUTED FOR BEG GAY, I ASK YOU TO NSIR THIS: LEARSHIP, BY FN, MEANS BEG OUT ONT OF YOUR PEOPLE WHEN IS LLED FOR. IT MEANS STANDG UP FOR THE DIGNY OF ALL YOUR CIZENS AND PERSUADG YOUR PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME. IT ALSO MEANS ENSURG THAT ALL CIZENS ARE TREATED AS EQUALS UNR YOUR LAWS, BEE LET ME BE CLEAR – I AM NOT SAYG THAT GAY PEOPLE N’T OR DON’T M CRIM. THEY N AND THEY DO, JT LIKE STRAIGHT PEOPLE. AND WHEN THEY DO, THEY SHOULD BE HELD ACUNTABLE, BUT SHOULD NEVER BE A CRIME TO BE GAY. AND TO PEOPLE OF ALL NATNS, I SAY SUPPORTG HUMAN RIGHTS IS YOUR RPONSIBILY TOO. THE LIV OF GAY PEOPLE ARE SHAPED NOT ONLY BY LAWS, BUT BY THE TREATMENT THEY RECEIVE EVERY DAY OM THEIR FAI, OM THEIR NEIGHBORS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, WHO DID SO MUCH TO ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWI, SAID THAT THE RIGHTS BEG THE SMALL PLAC CLOSE TO HOME – THE STREETS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE, THE SCHOOLS THEY ATTEND, THE FACTORI, FARMS, AND OFFIC WHERE THEY WORK. THE PLAC ARE YOUR DOMA. THE ACTNS YOU TAKE, THE IALS THAT YOU ADVOTE, N TERME WHETHER HUMAN RIGHTS FLOURISH WHERE YOU ARE. AND FALLY, TO LGBT MEN AND WOMEN WORLDWI, LET ME SAY THIS: WHEREVER YOU LIVE AND WHATEVER THE CIRCUMSTANC OF YOUR LIFE, WHETHER YOU ARE NNECTED TO A WORK OF SUPPORT OR FEEL ISOLATED AND VULNERABLE, PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE. PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE ARE WORKG HARD TO SUPPORT YOU AND TO BRG AN END TO THE JTIC AND DANGERS YOU FACE. THAT IS CERTALY TE FOR MY UNTRY. AND YOU HAVE AN ALLY THE UNED STAT OF AMERI AND YOU HAVE LNS OF IENDS AMONG THE AMERIN PEOPLE. THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN FENDS THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE AS PART OF OUR PREHENSIVE HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY AND AS A PRRY OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY. IN OUR EMBASSI, OUR DIPLOMATS ARE RAISG NCERNS ABOUT SPECIFIC S AND LAWS, AND WORKG WH A RANGE OF PARTNERS TO STRENGTHEN HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTNS FOR ALL. IN WASHGTON, WE HAVE CREATED A TASK FORCE AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO SUPPORT AND ORDATE THIS WORK. AND THE G MONTHS, WE WILL PROVI EVERY EMBASSY WH A TOOLK TO HELP IMPROVE THEIR EFFORTS. AND WE HAVE CREATED A PROGRAM THAT OFFERS EMERGENCY SUPPORT TO FENRS OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR LGBT PEOPLE. THIS MORNG, BACK WASHGTON, PRINT OBAMA PUT TO PLACE THE FIRST U.S. GOVERNMENT STRATEGY DITED TO BATG HUMAN RIGHTS AB AGAST LGBT PERSONS ABROAD. BUILDG ON EFFORTS ALREADY UNRWAY AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND ACROSS THE ERNMENT, THE PRINT HAS DIRECTED ALL U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCI ENGAGED OVERSEAS TO BAT THE CRIMALIZATN OF LGBT STAT AND NDUCT, TO ENHANCE EFFORTS TO PROTECT VULNERABLE LGBT REFUGE AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, TO ENSURE THAT OUR FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROMOT THE PROTECTN OF LGBT RIGHTS, TO ENLIST TERNATNAL ANIZATNS THE FIGHT AGAST DISCRIMATN, AND TO RPOND SWIFTLY TO AB AGAST LGBT PERSONS. I AM ALSO PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE ARE LNCHG A NEW GLOBAL EQUALY FUND THAT WILL SUPPORT THE WORK OF CIVIL SOCIETY ANIZATNS WORKG ON THE ISSU AROUND THE WORLD. THIS FUND WILL HELP THEM RERD FACTS SO THEY N TARGET THEIR ADVOCY, LEARN HOW TO E THE LAW AS A TOOL, MANAGE THEIR BUDGETS, TRA THEIR STAFFS, AND FE PARTNERSHIPS WH WOMEN’S ANIZATNS AND OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS. WE HAVE MTED MORE THAN $3 LN TO START THIS FUND, AND WE HAVE HOPE THAT OTHERS WILL JO SUPPORTG . THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO ADVOTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE LGBT MUNY HOSTILE PLAC, SOME OF WHOM ARE HERE TODAY WH , ARE BRAVE AND DITED, AND SERVE ALL THE HELP WE N GIVE THEM. WE KNOW THE ROAD AHEAD WILL NOT BE EASY. A GREAT AL OF WORK LI BEFORE . BUT MANY OF HAVE SEEN FIRSTHAND HOW QUICKLY CHANGE N E. IN OUR LIFETIM, ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE MANY PLAC HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED. MANY PEOPLE, CLUDG MYSELF, HAVE EXPERIENCED A EPENG OF OUR OWN NVICTNS ON THIS TOPIC OVER THE YEARS, AS WE HAVE VOTED MORE THOUGHT TO , ENGAGED DIALOGU AND BAT, AND TABLISHED PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL RELATNSHIPS WH PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY. THIS EVOLUTN IS EVINT MANY PLAC. TO HIGHLIGHT ONE EXAMPLE, THE DELHI HIGH COURT CRIMALIZED HOMOSEXUALY INDIA TWO YEARS AGO, WRG, AND I QUOTE, “IF THERE IS ONE TE THAT N BE SAID TO BE AN UNRLYG THEME OF THE INDIAN NSTUTN, IS CLIVENS.” THERE IS LTLE DOUBT MY MD THAT SUPPORT FOR LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS WILL NTUE TO CLIMB. BEE FOR MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, THIS IS SIMPLE: ALL PEOPLE SERVE TO BE TREATED WH DIGNY AND HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS RPECTED, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHOM THEY LOVE. THERE IS A PHRASE THAT PEOPLE THE UNED STAT VOKE WHEN URGG OTHERS TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS: “BE ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY.” THE STORY OF THE UNED STAT IS THE STORY OF A NATN THAT HAS REPEATEDLY GRAPPLED WH TOLERANCE AND EQUALY. WE FOUGHT A BTAL CIVIL WAR OVER SLAVERY. PEOPLE OM AST TO AST JOED MPAIGNS TO REGNIZE THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, DIGENO PEOPL, RACIAL MORI, CHILDREN, PEOPLE WH DISABILI, IMMIGRANTS, WORKERS, AND ON AND ON. AND THE MARCH TOWARD EQUALY AND JTICE HAS NTUED. THOSE WHO ADVOTE FOR EXPANDG THE CIRCLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS WERE AND ARE ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY, AND HISTORY HONORS THEM. THOSE WHO TRIED TO NSTRICT HUMAN RIGHTS WERE WRONG, AND HISTORY REFLECTS THAT AS WELL. I KNOW THAT THE THOUGHTS I’VE SHARED TODAY VOLVE QUTNS ON WHICH OPNS ARE STILL EVOLVG. AS HAS HAPPENED SO MANY TIM BEFORE, OPN WILL NVERGE ONCE AGA WH THE TTH, THE IMMUTABLE TTH, THAT ALL PERSONS ARE CREATED EE AND EQUAL DIGNY AND RIGHTS. WE ARE LLED ONCE MORE TO MAKE REAL THE WORDS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATN. LET ANSWER THAT LL. LET BE ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY, FOR OUR PEOPLE, OUR NATNS, AND FUTURE GENERATNS, WHOSE LIV WILL BE SHAPED BY THE WORK WE DO TODAY. I E BEFORE YOU WH GREAT HOPE AND NFINCE THAT NO MATTER HOW LONG THE ROAD AHEAD, WE WILL TRAVEL SUCCSFULLY TOGETHER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. (APPLSE.) HUMAN RIGHTS U.S. MISSN TO INTERNATNAL ORGANIZATNS GENEVA

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