The U.S. State Department has announced that Randy Berry will fill the role as Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons. Randy Berry now has the opportunity to speak out for those LGBT persons being persecuted, tortured, and murdered around the world. The world has seen the recent gruesome images of gay men being thrown off building and stoned to death in Raqqa,Syria, the execution of 4000-6000 gay people in Iran since 1979, mob attacks, lynching, and anti-rights bill in Uganda, as well as violence in the U.S. and around the world. This is indicative of the challenges around the world. Our shared universal human rights matter for everyone, everywhere, all the time.