Abstract
The first openly homosexual person spoke in a UN human rights forum in August 1992, amidst some open hostility to his remarks.3 The speaker noted that lesbian women and gay men were totally unrepresented in UN work and had no organizations with consultative status. Organizations of lesbian women and gay men were first accredited to a UN meeting in 1993, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, where three organizations participated. The first lesbian and gay organization to gain consultative status with the Economic and Social Council was the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), approved by a rollcall vote in July 1993. Approval required that ECOSOC abandon its tradition of making such decisions by consensus. In September 1993, the
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