New World Bank US executive director: LGBTQ rights are human rights
Alternate U.S. World Bank Executive Director L. Felice Gorordo recently told the Washington Blade that he is committed to the advancement of LGBTQ and intersex rights within the multilateral organization. “LGBTQI+ rights are human rights and human rights are LGBTQI+ rights.
Period. Hard stop,” he said during an exclusive interview at his D.C. office on March 27. “I see it, personally, from a human rights promotion lens.” Gorordo, a Cuban American who was born in Miami, graduated from Georgetown University in 2005.
He co-founded Roots of Hope, an organization that seeks to empower young Cubans on the island through entrepreneurship and increased access to technology.
Gorordo served in various roles in both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, and served as advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer initiative after his mother died from pancreatic cancer.
