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In The News:

I have such a big boner for Hillary Clinton.

• But think about what’s happening to people as we speak today. Men and women are harassed, beaten, subjected to sexual violence, even killed, because of who they are and whom they love. Some are driven from their homes or countries, and many who become refugees confront new threats in their countries of asylum. In some places, violence against the LGBT community is permitted by law and inflamed by public calls to violence; in others, it persists insidiously behind closed doors.
• Just as I was very proud to say the obvious more than 15 years ago in Beijing that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, well, let me say today that human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights, once and for all.

You can watch a video of the speech here

In The News:

Every now and then I'll be posting bits of news that's worth sharing (not that most news isn't...I strongly encourage all to be on the ball with what's going on in the world -- but I guess that's just the International Relations major coming out)

A very touching video from George Steven Lopez Mercado's mother (with subtitles). Most of you probably have already read the articles pertaining to Mercado's very violent death last week.