Suzanne Goldberg (’91), Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights at the U.S. Department of State, coauthored an article for Foreign Policy discussing why the U.S. has both a moral and strategic imperative to fight for equality globally (“Protecting LGBTQI+ Rights Is Good Foreign Policy,” Jul. 17). “Although human rights are seen by some as a lower-priority foreign-policy issue for the United States than so-called hard security threats, the failure to protect them abroad can have significant negative consequences for U.S. interests. Now more than ever, the United States needs to push back against foreign-government repression of LGBTQI+ rights while also doing this work at home. . . . Across a range of issues, it’s clear that anti-LGBTQI+ policies and rhetoric can cause significant damage to many of the United States’ top foreign-policy priorities.”
