Opn | Why have there been so few openly gay ambassadors? - The Washgton Post

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• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
• JAM HORMEL, FIRST OUT GAY US AMBASSADOR, AD AT AGE 88
• OBAMA’S 6 GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS ARE LEADG THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS
• JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88
• OPN WHY HAVE THERE BEEN SO FEW OPENLY GAY AMBASSADORS?
• THE SIX OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS WERE TOGETHER ONE ROOM
• US'S FIRST GAY AMBASSADOR JAM C. HORMEL DI
• OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY
• TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN

GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

JAM HORMEL, FIRST OUT GAY US AMBASSADOR, AD AT AGE 88

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

OBAMA’S 6 GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS ARE LEADG THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

OPN WHY HAVE THERE BEEN SO FEW OPENLY GAY AMBASSADORS?

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Great Bra lifted a ban on homosexuals the Foreign Office only 1991 unr Prime Mister John Major.

An anizatn for Amerin LGBTQ members of the State Department, cludg Ambassadors, is the Gay and Lbians Foreign Affairs Agenci (GLIFAA).

The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc. “We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń. Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.

THE SIX OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS WERE TOGETHER ONE ROOM

Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001. In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament.

US'S FIRST GAY AMBASSADOR JAM C. HORMEL DI

In 2014, he beme the first openly gay mayor the untry, takg the top learship role the northwt cy of Słupsk. This electn sent Biedroń to the European Parliament, as the first openly gay member om Poland.

Grenell, a nservative and stnch Tmp supporter, hasn't been a favore of LGBTQ+ activists at home or abroad, and he has been cricized by German policians who felt he was tryg to terfere the natn's domtic was tasked wh leadg the Tmp admistratn's efforts to crimalize homosexualy the natns where remas a crime, somethg at odds wh the admistratn's anti-LGBTQ+ polici at home -- and Tmp's zs wh some eply homophobic and transphobic foreign lears, such as Brazilian Print Jair actg director of natnal telligence ma Grenell the first openly gay person to lead a Cabet-level partment the U. Those who head Cabet and equivalent partments on an terim basis don't generally receive the chairs, but Grenell said an Instagram post that Tmp gave him the chair bee for Grenell to be the first out gay person such a posn was "a big al.

OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY

Jam Hormel, the first out gay person to serve as a US ambassador and a San Francis philanthropist, has died at the age of 88. Hormel served as US ambassador to Luxembourg om 1999 to 2000, weatherg homophobic attacks and fierce opposn to him beg a foreign envoy. The Senate Foreign Relatns Commtee advanced Hormel’s nomatn to the full US Senate that year, but a vote was blocked by nservative Republins, who were outspoken agast Hormel’s gay rights advocy.

Ultimately, other openly gay dividuals were appoted whout the ranr that went to my se. He ntributed to several , cludg HIV/AIDS service anizatns and a breast ncer group, and donated to create the San Francis Public Library’s Gay and Lbian Center.

TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN

“As the first openly gay Ambassador, he had the urage to be a pneer and had the patrtism to accept the challenge, ” Pelosi said a statement, addg that he paved “the way for a new generatn of lears and (elevated) the voic of LGBTQ voic our foreign policy. Although Hormel was emently qualified for the post and quickly won approval om the Senate Foreign Relatns Commtee, he was subjected to an ugly nfirmatn battle durg which he was famed and beltled by homophobic GOP senators such as Jse Helms and John Ashcroft.