Chelsea Clinton: LGBTQ rights 'unfinished business' of this century
(CNN) - Adapting a line from her mother, Chelsea Clinton said Sunday that shedding light on LGBTQ issues should be a major focus for human rights advocates this century.
"My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century,” she said of Hillary Clinton, the former New York senator and secretary of state. “That is certainly true. But so too are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century."
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Chelsea Clinton was tapped as the keynote speaker for a Human Rights Campaign conference in Las Vegas - another appearance in a series of high-profile events for the former first daughter.
Despite her famed political lineage, Clinton, 33, has said she has no plans to run for public office, unlike her mother, who is seriously considering running for president in 2016.
"I am unapologetically biased towards both of my parents. I am glad there are some people in the audience who agree. I am unlimitedly their daughter," Clinton said in response to a question about her mother’s political aspirations. "I will support my mother in whatever she chooses to do. And my crystal ball is no more clear than yours."
In her address, Clinton pushed for more progress in combating bullying of gay youths. She pointed to celebrities such as Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who announced that he was gay in a Sports Illustrated story in April, and actress Ellen Page, who came out as gay at the same Las Vegas conference last Friday, as role models changing the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, queer narrative.
"Changing laws and changing the political dialogue while necessary is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality," Clinton said.
Clinton appeared with her mother last week in New York to launch a new partnership between the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to analyze women's advancement internationally.
She will also speak on women’s issues at an event at the University of Missouri-Kansas City later this month.
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Stop beating the dead horse, Chelsea. LGBT and the rest of the alphabet are just fine. How about we start worrying about things that affect all of us, not just 10%? Everybody and their uncle are coming out as gay because it is safe to do so now, and you get a bit of publicity if you are a celebrity, and it is getting boring, boring, boring...
Keep an eye on the younger Ms Clinton. She will be a powerful force for good in the future.
Really?
Grooming the next generation of machine politics.
Ugh.
You go, girl!
I say we make her the gay ambassador of Libya!
cnn, all things gay, all of the time
I'm a supporter of gay rights mostly because people should have the right to live their lives how they choose. But, gay people, come on. You are doing yourself no justice with 10000 categories of sexual preference, 100000 coming out stories, and 1000000 feather boa'ed men in leather speedos. I have no right to tell you what to do in your bedroom and frankly, I don't want to know either.
OK I'll bite...What does the Q stand for?
Hillary Clinton, whom I have a lot of respect for, has a very good chance(her last), of winning the White House in 2016,,,,,,,,,,,,,She also has a very good chance of losing. She just needs to be sure she has all her "ducks in a row". It shall be interesting, VERY interesting.........
Let's see how many classy people skewer this young woman for no other reason than being born into a political family.
They are going to keep adding letters to that?
LGBTQFBBQ
Doesn't it bother her that her dad is known round the world as a perv?
Homosexuality is a sin. God said so and still does. Read the Bible, educate yourselves. Stop being so spineless and self-righteous America.
OMG – we are supposed to pay attention to anything this Air-Head says or does! Chelsea Clinton is an empty vessel devoid of substance. This is a sorry attempt to grab some headlines in the hopes of possibly becoming relevant! All the Clintons are corrupt1
Momma's prepping her for 2016.
Chelsea is right! Before this century is finished, science will likely find a way to allow two homosexuals to procreate, thereby making true the fallacy of "born this way". Of course, Ray Kurzweil and his singularity will have made procreation unnecessary because we will all be "living" in silicon.
Blah, blah blah blah!!!! Rhetoric at its best! Action sister...action speak louder than words.
What about protecting young interns from sexual predators.
can someone tell me what the Q is?
I think Chelsea Clinton will go a long way with the cool head she inherited... Good for you Chelsea !
A nobody talking about a nontopic.
Why would anyone care what Chelsea Clinton thinks about anything?
So good to see Chelsea Clinton helping us to appreciate she is unabashedly supportive of everyone who is gay, lesbian, transgender ..... Like we weren't sure of that? For all we know maybe her mom is gay?
Chelsea Clinton has ZERO real life experience, she has lived a life of privilage and now riding the coatails of her parents. What is with the media and political preoccupation with HOMOPHILIA, IT IS BECOMMING VERY NAUSEATING, I guess when you have no answers to real life problems facing the nation you digress to this reprobate stupidity. PP
Again she spoke of the rights of the homosexual and completely ignored the rights of Christians. Godless, left wing, communist just like her parents.