AND NOT A PEEP IS HEARD FROM THE GAY OR STRAIGHT MEDIA.....

Toujoursdan of Culture choc and Counterlight have posts up about a proposed UN Declaration of Human Rights for LBGTs. They direct us to read UK gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell's Guardian CiF article

It will be the first time in its history that the UN General Assembly has considered the issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights.

Although it will not be binding on the member states, the declaration will have immense symbolic value, given the six decades in which homophobic persecution has been ignored by the UN.

If you want to understand why this decriminalisation declaration is so important and necessary, ponder this: even today, not a single international human rights convention explicitly acknowledges the human rights of LGBT people. The right to physically love the person of one's choice is nowhere enshrined in any global humanitarian law. No convention recognises sexual rights as human rights. None offers explicit protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The USA, naturally, is against. The main sponsor - Canada - and most of the EU countries have come on board. Counterlight writes

It has some surprising support from countries like Mexico, Ecuador, Guinea-Bissau, and Israel.

The Vatican, in league with the Islamic countries, is leading the opposition, to no one's surprise.
The USA is not endorsing the resolution, and neither is Australia.
Curiously (or not), our leftist comrades in Cuba and Venezuela are silent on this resolution.

It is strange that this is stirring not a peep of notice in the press, not even in the gay press.