Clton Dodg Gay Paper’s Q About Donatns From Gay-Persecutg Countri | Newsbters

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• RIGHTS GROUPS SILENT AS CLTON FOUNDATN TAK LNS OM UNTRI THAT IMPRISON GAYS
• CLTON FOUNDATN TAK $25.5M OM COUNTRI THAT KILL, IMPRISON GAYS
• TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
• CLTON TO UNED NATNS: "GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
• HILLARY CLTON TOOK MILLNS OM ANTI-LGBT COUNTRI THAT JAIL AND EXECUTE GAYS
• CLTON AND GAY RIGHTS: THE BIG LIE
• CHELSEA CLTON EY GLOBAL PROJECTS, GAY RIGHTS
• CLTON DODG GAY PAPER’S Q ABOUT DONATNS FROM GAY-PERSECUTG COUNTRI
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY PAPER ASKS CLTON WHY FOUNDATN ACCEPTS SH OM GAY-PERSECUTG NATNS. HERE'S HER ANSWER.

RIGHTS GROUPS SILENT AS CLTON FOUNDATN TAK LNS OM UNTRI THAT IMPRISON GAYS

The Clton Foundatn has accepted lns om Middle Eastern and other foreign ernments that crimalize homosexualy – but proment gay rights groups Ameri have stayed silent on the apparent disnnect between Hillary Clton’s rhetoric and the donatns. "But published reports and figur provid by the Clton Foundatn on s webse show the group has accepted lns om untri that prosecute and imprison gay people – and worse.

The followg is an overview of those ntributns, as well as polici om donor natns as tailed by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). "Jamai: ($50, 000-$100, 000) Gay men ught havg sex face up to 10 years ($5 ln-$10 ln) Kuwai law stat: "Consensual terurse between men of full age (om the age of 21) shall be punishable wh a term of imprisonment of up to seven years. "Qatar: ($1 ln-$5 ln) Sentenc for acts of homosexualy range om one to seven years Arabia: ($10 ln-$25 ln) Islamic law Sdi Arabia enforc penalti for homosexual sex, rangg om public floggg to ath.

CLTON FOUNDATN TAK $25.5M OM COUNTRI THAT KILL, IMPRISON GAYS

""The Clton Foundatn probably should have to give the money back bee they shouldn't take money om the totalarian untri that punish and torture and execute gay people for beg gay, " said Matthew Vadum, vice print of the Capal Rearch Center, which analyzed donatns to the Clton the outrage elsewhere is News ntacted more than a half-dozen proment gay rights anizatns cludg The Human Rights Campaign; GLAAD; the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn; the Los Angel LGBT Center; and the Gill Foundatn. None would ment on what crics nsir Clton's hypocrisy, promisg to protect gay rights while enrichg her foundatn by promotg ti wh reprsive ernments that vlate those rights. "The Cltons nstantly talk about how they are iends and alli of the gay muny, yet here they are receivg tens of lns of dollars om ernments that actually execute people for beg gay, " he said.

TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS

"The hypocrisy li the fact that Hillary Clton's foundatn tak money om untri where gay sexual acts n be punished by ath or by floggg or by other nasty punishments. And so don't make a lot of sense to get upset about paratively trivial problems here Ameri that gays face pared to ath and torture and dismemberment as they experience every day untri where Islamic and Sharia law prevail. In Sdi Arabia, the penalty for homosexual behavr is anywhere om 100 lash and year of banishment, to ath by stong, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn’s report on State Sponsored Homophobia.

Bill Clton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act to law 1996, is now urgg the Supreme Court to strike an op-ed the Washgton Post on Friday, the former print said when he greenlighted DOMA—which f marriage as between a man and a woman-- was a “very different time, ” notg that no stat regnized gay marriage.

He argu that at the time, legislatn to fe marriage would fend off a movement that would have been even worse for gay did Clton go om pro-DOMA to anti-DOMA? “It’s a slight rewrg of history…to imply that somehow this was anti-gay when I had more openly gay people my admistratn and did more for gay rights and tried to provi an opportuny for gays to serve the ary and did provi an opportuny for gays to serve civilian posns volvg natnal secury that they had been prevly been nied to servg .

CLTON TO UNED NATNS: "GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"

The fight for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) human rights took not one but two cril steps forward this week wh Print Obama’s release of a Printial Directive on LGBT rights followed closely by Secretary of State Hillary Clton’s ternatnal human rights day speech at the Uned Natns Geneva, Swzerland. From the so-lled rrective rape of lbians to proposed legislatn to stute the ath penalty for homosexualy, LGBT people around the world face the daily threat of vlence simply for who they are. From people like Jean-Cl Mbe, jailed Cameroon for 3 years on spicn of homosexualy, to the LGBT muny of Uganda, who fear the passage of a dranian new anti-gay law, the actns by the Obama Admistratn uld make all the difference.

HILLARY CLTON TOOK MILLNS OM ANTI-LGBT COUNTRI THAT JAIL AND EXECUTE GAYS

In le wh Print Clton’s belief that diverse groups make better cisns than homogeno on, we brg together a diverse muny of partners — wh different sets of skills, experienc, rourc, and perspectiv — to create a more clive and equable world. He mand that the Clton Foundatn return donatns om Qatar and Sdi Arabia, based on those untri’ rerds on women’s rights and gay rights, then attacked the Clton Foundatn’s work Hai.

CLTON AND GAY RIGHTS: THE BIG LIE

” However, she failed to mentn that the Clton Foundatn has spent years acceptg lns donatns om untri that throw homosexuals prison, fe them, sentence them to hard labor, and even execute them for the “crime” of beg gay. Below is a list of eight natns that Hillary Clton’s foundatn took ntributns om while those unti’ lears were enforcg harsh punishments on lbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transsexual people.

Algerian law on homosexualy stat: “Anyone guilty of a homosexual act is punishable wh imprisonment of between 2 months and two years, and wh a fe of 500 to 2000 Algerian dars [roughly $6 to $24]. In Oman, “Anyone who ms erotic acts wh a person of the same sex shall be sentenced to imprisonment om six months to three years, ” acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Associatn.

CHELSEA CLTON EY GLOBAL PROJECTS, GAY RIGHTS

A 2013 Internatnal Lbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Associatn report on state-sponsored homophobia stat that “all sexual acts outsi of heterosexual marriage are banned the Uned Arab Emirat. Proletarian Revolutn warned last year that Bill Clton would betray the gay rights stggle, no matter what he promised or how cravenly the gay and lbian learship was willg to support him. Origally planned as a prott agast Republin anti-gay attacks, beme stead a warm, fuzzy blanket tover for the Democrats, a gentle remr to Clton to keep his promise to lift the ary ban on gays.

CLTON DODG GAY PAPER’S Q ABOUT DONATNS FROM GAY-PERSECUTG COUNTRI

As Donna Mkowz reported, proment gay lears utned the Whe Hoe that “the march would be an anti-Clton prott unls the print showed more support for liftg the ary ban. A natnal NAACP lear spoke as if that anizatn had always been the biggt advot of gay rights, too pole to discs the fact that major NAACP chapters were vehemently opposed to endorsg the monstratn.

One of the more outrageo ver-ups was the troductn of New York’s spels Mayor Dks as “the mayor who recently marched wh the gay and lbian ntgent the St.

GAY RIGHTS

” This was the very para that had exclud gays and lbians, thanks good measure to Dks’ sellout; moreover, Dks did not participate the gay and lbian unter-march. (The mayor subsequently showed his te prcipl by marchg the Salute to Israel para, although likewise had banned a gay and lbian synagogue om participatg as such.

In ntrast: The effort to repel the Colorado-style anti-gay ballot measur troduced 10 more stat has attracted snt support om the movement’s major donors.

Unr s bourgeois and middle-class lears, the gay movement rejects mass stggle agast the risg ti of gaybag and vlence favor of seekg rpectabily palist circl. On the day of the Washgton rally, Clton spoke to the prs Boston, exprsg sympathy ls for gays or anyone else than for his own polil plight: A lot of people thk that I did a terrible polil thg, and I know I paid a terrible polil price for sayg that I thought the time had e to end the tegoril ban on gays and lbians servg out ary service, and that they should not be subject to further discrimatn Governmental employment.

GAY PAPER ASKS CLTON WHY FOUNDATN ACCEPTS SH OM GAY-PERSECUTG NATNS. HERE'S HER ANSWER.

Now Clton mands that gays and lbians serve a untry that won’t speak their name: he accepts a variant of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” formula prohibg gays and lbians om exprsg their sexual inty.

While never rooted the workg class, the gay liberatn movement, born the 1960’s on the shoulrs of the Black and women’s liberatn movements, neverthels reprented a radil visn of sexual and human liberatn. Today’s gay and lbian power brokers—like Clton’s pal David Mixner and Torie Osborn of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force—have nothg mon wh the ranks of gays and lbians spired by the mass actns. They are league wh gay rights lnair like Hollywood mogul David Geffen of the Campaign for MilaryService, who unts among his bt iends Felix Rohatyn, the archect of stery programs New York Cy.