Glifaa reprents lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) personnel, their fai, and their alli the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for Internatnal Development (USAID), Foreign Commercial Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Agency for Global Media/BBG, Peace Corps, and other foreign affairs agenci of the U.S. Government. Officially regnized as…
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- ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
- STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
ADVANCG THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD
On the Enactment of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act. The Global Equaly Fund (GEF) is a unique and effective public-private partnership prised of like-md ernments and private sector enti dited to advancg and fendg the human rights and fundamental eedoms of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) persons around the world. Sourc: ILGA, The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, State-Sponsored Homophobia Report, December 2020.
Diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) persons around the world. Jt over two s ago, Print Bill Clton had to e a recs appotment to stall the first openly gay U. Now, on Tuday, the State Department's new openly gay spokperson will hold his first daily prs the voice of the Bin admistratn on the world stage, whose words will be analyzed foreign pals and provi directn for U.
STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
Diplomats overseas, will be a gay man is unremarkable, which is self a remarkable also sends a potent msage to foreign LGBTQ activists, pecially those fightg untri where same-sex relatnships are still crimalized.
"It's credibly important for queer people untri where homosexualy and queerns is a ath sentence, " said Innanoshe Richard Akon, a Nigerian LGBT rights activist and wrer. "It really seems like forever ago, and the untry has changed so many ways and even large swaths of the world have changed, " said Michael Gut, a reer diplomat who beme the first openly gay ambassador nfirmed by the Senate, ls than three years after Hormel's appotment. Bh before retirg om the Foreign then, there have been 14 openly gay U.