This is a human rights issue. Just as I was very proud to say the obvious more than fifteen years ago in Beijing — that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights — well, let me say today that human rights are gay rights, and gay rights are human rights, once and for all.

Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, ad-libbing at a State Department event celebrating gay employees.  When asked why she’d gone off script, she said, “Oh, heavens, I don’t know — I don’t know…  I was looking out at the audience where a lot of longtime friends, political supporters, colleagues were sitting, and it just seemed so important and right to make that statement.” (via bibliofeminista)