Student Essay- A Chance to Advance Gay Rights as a Priority of U.S. Foreign Policy
By Jesús Pérez on Sep 29, 2012
Did you know that in 76 countries throughout the world homosexuality is considered a crime? In those countries, LGBT people – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender – are routinely harassed, arrested, and imprisoned by the very governments that are supposed to keep them safe.
In about five of those countries, those convicted of the crime of homosexuality can receive the death penalty. To help put a stop to these injustices, the Obama administration announced last year, that it would be a priority of U.S. foreign policy to, as the President put it in his address to the UN General Assembly last year, “stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.”
I write about this in my essay, “Emerging Equality: Gay Rights as a Priority of U.S. Foreign Policy,” which was recently selected, out of hundreds of submissions, as a finalist in an essay contest organized by Foreign Affairs magazine, a very prominent and prestigious journal on the subject of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
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