Propose a new UN
International Human Rights Convention,
enforceable worldwide and including
protection against discrimination based
on sexual orientation, transgender
identity and HIV status.
Instruct the State
Department to compile a Global Index of
LGBTI Rights and raise abuses of these
rights in the UN and with offending
states, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Uganda, Iran, Nigeria, Yemen, Jamaica,
Cameroon, Lithuania, Afghanistan,
Belarus and Iraq.
Make US aid to
homophobic countries conditional on
serious progress towards their repeal of
anti-gay and anti-transgender laws.
Show the way by
eliminating such discriminatory laws in
the US, including repealing the ban on
same-sex marriage and the military’s
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and
enacting laws to protect LGBTI people
against discrimination in employment,
housing, education, advertising and the
provision of goods and services.
Use the network and
resources of the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) to
train LGBTI human rights defenders and
support LGBTI organisations, especially
in poorer developing countries.
Press for the
worldwide decriminalisation of same-sex
acts.
Seek the universal
abolition of capital punishment,
including the execution of LGBTI people.
Give a lead by ending the death penalty
in the US.
Withdraw diplomatic,
economic and military support from
tyrannical regimes like Saudi Arabia
that persistently deny freedom to their
own people and oppress their own
citizens, on grounds such as gender,
sexual orientation, transgender
identity, race, nationality, religion or
belief, language and so on.
Recognise and support
the International Criminal Court, to
bring to justice the perpetrators of war
crimes and crimes against humanity,
including homophobic tyrants.
End the US use of
detention without trial, torture and
extraordinary rendition, and close down
Guantánamo Bay.
Pull out from Iraq
and renounce the US policy of selective
and unilateral military intervention to
overthrow foreign dictatorships, like
the Saddam Hussein regime, in favour of
a policy supporting democratic and
humanitarian civil society organisations
within those countries, in order to
empower the victims of oppression to
liberate themselves.
Prioritise peace with
justice in the Middle East, to secure a
permanent negotiated settlement to the
Israel–Palestine conflict, including
Israel’s withdrawal to its pre-1967
borders and the creation of a viable,
independent, democratic and secular
Palestinian state where everyone –
including women and LGBTI people – enjoy
full and equal human rights.
Cease propping up
corrupt, pro-western, and often
homophobic, human rights abusers, such
as the Ugandan and Nigerian regimes.
Devise a new, more
just international economic framework,
where the common good, environmental
protection and global equity take
priority over private privilege,
corporate greed and national
self-interest. A fairer, sustainable,
regulated and accountable international
economic system is our best hope to
safeguard jobs, homes, savings, public
services, welfare provision, the
environment and to bridge the chasm of
inequality between the global north and
south.
Take action to save
the lives of the 1.5 billion people on
our planet who are malnourished and
without safe, clean drinking water (of
which about 150 million are LGBTI). What
is the point of securing LGBTI equality
if LGBTI people are left to die of
starvation and disease?
Lobby for a UN
Convention Against War and Poverty,
whereby the nations of the world,
including the US, agree to cut their
annual military expenditure by 10% and
to divert the $100,000 million saved
into a “Marshall Plan 2” for the total
eradication of hunger, malnutrition,
dirty drinking water, poor sanitation
and preventable illnesses by the year
2025.
Act now to halt the
single greatest threat to the future of
humanity: climate chaos. It is more of a
danger than terrorism and war, and
threatens the survival of all species
and all races, nationalities, faiths and
sexualities. LGBTI freedom means nothing
if we don’t have a planet where we can
enjoy it. Preserving our fragile
biosphere is the precondition for life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness –
for every human being, regardless of
sexual orientation.
