Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the United States must lead the way on gay rights worldwide. “This is going to be an ongoing struggle and the United States must be on the front lines”.

Traveling the world, Clinton said she had noticed an ‘increasing backlash’ against the LGBTI community. As Chicago Sun-Times reports, it ‘led to her to laying out a platform for gay rights before world leaders in Geneva.’

‘I began to vigorously protest with governments in many parts of the world,’ she added. ‘Some countries just need to be brought along. Others are just cynical. Like what Putin’s doing in Russia with all these laws against the LGBT community. That is just a cynical political ploy. I’ve gotten into shouting matches with top Russian officials. But I realized unless there was an argument made, a platform created, we wouldn’t have as strong of a case.’

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