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When she urged President Obama to push harder against homophobic regimes in Africa.
While outlets like Fox News attacked Clinton about “hiding” emails, there was actually some good that surfaced: One leaked message revealed she pushed the Obama Administration to press leaders in Africa to change their anti-LGBT policies.
It was not a safe position, either: As Clinton revealed in her memoir, Hard Choices, after she confronted Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni about gay rights, he ridiculed my concerns.”
“Like many people in Uganda and around the world, I was appalled that the police and government had done little to protect [murdered activist] David [Cato] after public calls for his murder,” she wrote. “It was the result of a nationwide campaign to suppress LGBT people by any means necessary, and the government was part of it.”
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