Beg gay the Diplomatic Service: a personal acunt | Cheveng

Contents:

• BEG GAY THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE: A PERSONAL ACUNT
• QUEER COS: GAY MEN THE CIVIL SERVICE
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

BEG GAY THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE: A PERSONAL ACUNT

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. He served as the Uned Stat Ambassador to Luxembourg om 1999 to 2001, and was the first openly gay man to reprent the Uned Stat as an ambassador.

Gay diplomats. Showed his mettle appotg that untry's first gay ambassador, Jam Hormel, 1999.

QUEER COS: GAY MEN THE CIVIL SERVICE

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).

This year marked the 50-year anniversary of the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra and 26 years sce the liftg of the bar on gay men and lbians workg for the Brish Diplomatic Service. Durg the summer FCO Historians lnched Homosexualy at the Foreign Office, 1967-1991 (a ‘History Note’ based on my PhD rearch to social diversy at the FCO) wh an event the Lorno Sue, which policians, diplomats and activists gave personal sights to the ban, s liftg and what is to be gay and work for the FCO.

Openg the event, Sir John Major, the Prime Mister who lifted the bar, reflected on the progrs of the gay rights movement his lifetime:. Many gay men and women have shaped our history, our lerature and our social attus. Sir John Major spoke about Homosexualy at the Foreign Office.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Until 1991, the Diplomatic Service barred gay men and lbians om reprentg Bra overseas. The History of the Bar on Homosexualy. Followg the passg of the Act, diplomats at the Foreign Office worried that the social climate Bra was such that gay men would go to great lengths to prevent beg ‘outed’, and so were vulnerable to blackmail.

The fectn of homosexual officer Guy Burgs to the Soviet Unn 1951, as well as the homosexual honey trap to which John Vassall fell victim until his arrt 1962, left Brish diplomats no mood to urt further sexual sndal.

Homosexual acts private meant two people a private hoe.