BuzzFeed - Advocates fear South Africa might turn against an LGBT rights resolution at the UN that it sponsored three years ago. The flag of the South African gay community sits next to a portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela and other mementos in the Sandton area of Johannesburg, South Africa. December 7, 2013. AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi South Africa was once the essential nation to advancing LGBTI rights in international diplomacy. Now it has become a potential roadblock. Back in 2011, South Africa sponsored a resolution before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) that, for the first time, recognized LGBTI rights as human rights. Other nations, especially from Latin America, had been working to advance LGBTI rights in less high-profile ways for several years before, but South Africa's leadership was critical to taking the effort to the level of a formal resolution. Such a proposal had to have at least one prominent African backer, its supporters believed....
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