How globalization has transformed the fight for LGBT rights.

Police apprehend protesters in Moscow in 2015. (Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

On a visit to Senegal in 2013, Barack Obama held a press conference with the Senegalese president Macky Sall. “Mr President,” asked an American journalist, “did you press President Sall to make sure that homosexuality is decriminalised in Senegal? And…