Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton

“We are becoming a country that not only supports perversion, we cheerlead for perversion. A day against homophobia and transphobia — what they’re saying is Judeo-Christian morality is the equivalent of bigotry and irrational fear, and that is a false message. What they’re saying essentially is if you are a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew, and you oppose sexual …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a statement supporting today’s International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). Via press release: In every part of the world, men and women are persecuted and attacked because of who they are or whom they love. Homophobia, transphobia and the brutal hostility associated with them are often rooted in a lack of understanding of what …

Jezebel reports: Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn’t- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey. The religious paper never publishes pictures of women, as they could be considered “sexually suggestive.” Apparently the presence of a woman, any woman, being all womanly and …

Here’s an excerpt from the U.S. State Department’s press release on yesterday’s historic United Nations resolution. A total of 85 nations have signed on the Obama administration’s call to battle for LGBT rights around the world. 20 countries joined this statement that were neither signatory to the 2006 or 2008 statements. The statement garnered support from every region of the …

GOP Rep. Randy Forbes (VA) has introduced legislation which would require all federal documents to use only the words “mother” and “father” when describing parents. Forbes’ bill is meant to directly counter a recent compromise by Clinton’s State Department, which last month added the words “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” to passport applications. When we last heard from Forbes, he …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a lengthy condemnation of the murder of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato. We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Ugandan human rights defender David Kato, who was brutally murdered in his home near Kampala yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and colleagues. We urge Ugandan authorities to quickly …

“Well, I share his experience because we obviously share a lot of the same friends, but I have not changed my position.” – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, responding to the president’s recent hint that he is “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Last December the State Department announced that passport applications would begin using the terms “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” rather than “mother” and “father.” But predictably, anti-gay and Christianist groups have been screaming their heads off and today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered an amending of the planned change. The State Department said Saturday that Clinton had instructed the …

Madame Secretary is pissed.

Speaking on a broad range of issues before an audience of young Australians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fielded a question on marriage equality by saying that while she has not supported marriage equality in the past, she does support civil unions and American states “taking actions that they believe reflects the evolution of attitudes about this.” Disappointing. The marriage …

We don’t often get to see Secretary Clinton in anything other than the most somber circumstances, so this chat she had with a couple of Australian comedians is quite fun. This clip closes with some news anchors wishing out loud that Clinton would emigrate.

“Black voters are racist. Not only will they stick with Obama no matter what he does, but they will punish anyone they think harmed him in any way. Part of why HRC took the Secretary of State job was so she could appear to now be friendly with Obama…that, and so she did not have to be in the Senate …

The below clip began running on New Orleans television this week. A Chicago dentist has launched the 2012 presidential campaign a smidge early by running a pro-Hillary ad on television, reports CNN. The 30-second spot, paid for by William DeJean, says Clinton has “more experience working in and with the White House than most living presidents” and is “one of …

Here’s the full video to accompany the text excerpt from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech that I posted yesterday. It’s pretty great.

U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Eric Schwartz, spoke today about the State Department’s attempts to improve the handling of asylum requests by LGBT refugees. Schwartz was speaking at the State Department’s LGBT Pride Month reception and this video was posted to their official YouTube channel. RELATED: Good As You has Secretary Clinton’s Pride Month …

Ben Smith at Politico is floating the rumor that Hillary Clinton is being considered to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which has a sometimes-rocky relationship with her own staff of loyalists, a residue of the bitter 2008 campaign. He’s …