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Obama signs UN Declaration to decriminalize LGBTIs
Mar 19 2009, 6:41 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 19 2009, 6:41 PM EDT
On March 18th, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the United Nations General Assembly Statement calling for the protection and decriminalization of sexual minorities, “LGBTIs” (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered and intersexed). Obama declined to do so at the December 2008 UN meeting when 66 of UN member states signed on.

Louis-George Tin, the grassroots activist who initiated the project in 2006, was reserved in his approval of Obama’s action. "This support is a crucial step. But only if the United States commits itself to support the text actively, i.e. encouraging all their allies to sign it, as well.”

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