All posts tagged "state department"
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Trump Invents a Job for Gay Loyalist Richard Grenell
The gay Trump acolyte will serve the incoming administration in a role that is newly created and as yet undefined.
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World Pride 2025 Profile: Mark Bromley’s Diplomatic Cause
The Council for Global Equality's Mark Bromley steers the State Department toward better LGBTQ policies abroad.
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Republicans Force Biden to Sign Pride Flag Ban
Biden agreed to a Republican-backed provision in the spending bill that Pride flags from being flown outside U.S. embassies.
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State Department flies Pride flag for the first time in ‘historic moment’
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the U.S. "is committed to fighting for LGBTQI+ rights at home and abroad"
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Biden administration reverses Trump’s ban on embassies flying Pride flags
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reversed a Trump-era ban on embassies flying LGBTQ Pride flags
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Biden issues memo calling for protection of LGBTQI+ rights abroad
Memo signals Biden administration's commitment to defending LGBTQI+ people from persecution and human rights abuses
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Gay former ambassador Rufus Gifford tapped by Biden for State Department
The former ambassador to Denmark will be nominated for Chief of Protocol
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Trump’s press secretary says denying gay couple’s daughter citizenship has ‘nothing to do’ with sexual orientation
Kayleigh McEnany defends president's record on LGBTQ rights, citing decriminalization efforts and relaxed restrictions on gay blood donors
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Trump’s ‘Unalienable Rights’ commission brands LGBTQ equality a ‘divisive social and political controversy’
The State Department commission emphasized "religious freedom" and criticized courts for extending rights to people
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US embassy removes Pride flag, Black Lives Matter banner after complaint from State Department
The Pride flag was removed hours before a landmark LGBTQ rights victory in the U.S.
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Anti-gay activist wants Trump’s human rights commission to reverse LGBTQ rights globally
Brian Brown wants the Commission on Unalienable Rights to promote the "natural family"
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Trump administration’s “Unalienable Rights” commission may roll back LGBTQ protections
"This is an attempt to pull back a U.S. human rights vision that we've had for decades"
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Trump administration will push anti-gay “natural law” with new human rights panel
"Natural law" is frequently used by anti-LGBTQ organizations to justify discrimination
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Richard Grenell tells NBC News why Trump suddenly wants global decriminalization of homosexuality
What exactly are the motives behind Trump's push to decriminalize homosexuality globally?
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Trump appoints anti-gay Pompeo to head State Dept.
Trump fires Tillerson and announces anti-gay CIA chief Pompeo as his replacement
