Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
State Department's Ned Price on Promoting Global LGBTQ+ Equality
issued a memo directing all U.S. diplomats and government agencies working abroad to “promote and protect” the rights of LGBTQ+ people.
The memo builds on the one issued by President Barack Obama in December 2011, in conjunction with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s famous “gay rights are human rights” speech to the United Nations.But Biden’s memo is just the beginning, says Price, the first out gay spokesman at the State Department. “Having it as official policy is itself meaningful, but what really matters is how we put that into practice,” he tells The Advocate.Promoting LGBTQ+ equality around the world isn’t an easy task, and it won’t be accomplished quickly, given that about 70 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex.
