Obama, Clinton Call on World to End LGBT Discrimination

In a possibly historic move, the Obama administration announced its dedication to promoting LGBT rights around the world. In a memorandum from the president, and a speech from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the administration equated LGBT rights with human right, vowing to spend $3 million to finance LGBT rights  organizations. “In reality, gay people are born into – and belong to – every society in the world,” Clinton said to an audience of representatives of 47 nations, who gave her a standing ovation. (Watch the speech after the jump.) Imogen Foulkes, BBC correspondent in Geneva, discusses what the  initiative  may mean, and how it played to an international audience.