Part of the backlash in some countries has to do with misinterpretation: a number of African media outlets have consistently reported that the policy makes U.S. foreign aid conditional on gay rights. Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, noted that Western powers had threatened to cut aid in the past, and that this may help explain today's misperception. In October, for example, UK Prime Minister David Cameron had threatened to withhold some aid from countries that outlaw homosexuality, though the money would only be redirected from a program called "budget support," which recipient governments prefer, to other programs such as humanitarian aid.
Reid suggested that misplaced fears about aid cuts could harm the effort to promote gay rights. "It's a very fraught issue, because of course cutting general development aid on the basis of a vulnerable and unpopular minority can have consequences for that minority," he said, even if the fears about losing foreign aid are actually unfounded, as with U.S. gay rights promotion. "They can be made more stigmatized and more vulnerable because suddenly it seems like they're bringing even more difficulty to the lives of the citizens of their country by being the cause of a cut in aid."
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