America Must Work to End Anti-Gay Abuses Worldwide

AlterNet.org – By Deb Price – Creators Syndicate

All over the world gay men, lesbians, and transgender people are denied fundamental freedoms. America is not doing enough to help.

After Korab Zuka founded a gay-rights group in Kosovo in 2005, he received threatening phone calls and emails and had his car vandalized.

“We are going to make you hold your intestines,” Zuka, 22, recalls being warned. “We will (rape) your mother … and we are going to cut your head off.'”

The police were indifferent to his cries for protection.