Tmp and Gay Rights | Foreign Affairs

Contents:

• WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP
• TMP ADMISTRATN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY EMPLOYE
• TMP AND GAY RIGHTS

WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?

Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic. ]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people.

Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr.

Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

Through his philanthropic work over the years wh chari batg the AIDS crisis, his prev support of amendg the 1964 Civil Rights Act to clu a ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, and his early support of gay upl havg the same rights and protectns as straight upl, Tmp was an ally long before he was print. The Tmp plan is foced on muni most need and has received support om those who have been volved the fight agast HIV/ siar fashn, Tmp announced durg Pri Month 2019 that his admistratn was lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy. In ordatn wh the Uned Natns, the European Unn and other human rights anizatns, the mpaign’s goal is to prsure natns to endg homophobic laws, securg the safety and eedom of all LGBT dividuals throughout the world.

TMP ADMISTRATN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY EMPLOYE

The acplishments should not suggt the print's work is beg elected print, Donald Tmp supported amendg the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clu sexual orientatn; his admistratn's ristance to protectg gay, lbian and transgenr employe om discrimatn the workplace the recent Supreme Court se was th disappotg. Embassy is flyg LGBT activists om across Europe for a strategy dner to plan to ph for crimalizatn plac that still outlaw homosexualy — mostly ncentrated the Middle East, Ai and the Caribbean. Although the crimalizatn strategy is still beg hashed out, officials say ’s likely to clu workg wh global anizatns like the Uned Natns, the European Unn and the Organizatn for Secury and Cooperatn Europe, as well as other untri whose laws already allow for gay rights.

Narrowly foced on crimalizatn, rather than broar LGBT issu like same-sex marriage, the mpaign was nceived partly rponse to the recent reported executn by hangg of a young gay man Iran, the Tmp admistratn’s top geopolil foe. Ti: the Arab Sdi Arabia, whose monarchy Tmp has stnchly fend the face of human rights allegatns, homosexualy n be punishable by ath, acrdg to a 2017 worldwi report om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). But any mpaign to crimalize homosexualy would ostensibly also have to ll out Oman, where prison sentenc n be hand out for beg ph to end laws that outlaw homosexualy abroad also stands ntrast to the Tmp admistratn’s mixed rerd on gay rights at a ndidate, Tmp was ambiguo about his posn on many gay rights issu, but notably beme the first Republin nomee to mentn LGBT rights his acceptance speech at the Republin Natnal Conventn.

TMP AND GAY RIGHTS

But stead of answerg the qutn directly, McEnany ferred, sayg the admistratn is “proud” of s LGBTQ rerd and listed off several Whe Hoe iativ for gay rights, namely a pledge to crimalize homosexualy globally, a change to the ban on gay men donatg blood, and a pledge to end the HIV/AIDS epimic by 2030. Thoron noted that the Tmp admistratn has ed the iative to crack down on untri nsirs enemi, like Iran, while overlookg that same mment as zi up to homophobic regim plac like Poland, Hungary, and Brazil.

October 10, 2020 – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, warned by his advance team that an event wh the anti-gay Florida Fay Policy Council had homophobic at the se and that the group promoted dangero, bunked nversn therapy, appears at their October 3 event anyway. July 27, 2020 – Print Tmp’s niece, Mary Tmp, says ’s “absurd” that her uncle believ he has support the LGBTQ muny, that he’s unfortable wh gay people, and trans people, bee “he’s unfortable wh anyone that’s different… differently-abled, different lor of sk, and different beliefs… He’s not [an] ally of the gay muny, or really any muny for that matter. Ellis has a long rerd of racist and homophobic rhetoric, cludg cricizg her own Republin party for any attempt to embrace LGBTQ rights after the Pulse massacre killed 49 people, many of whom were LGBTQ.

June 8, 2020 – The Council for Global Equaly lls out Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for refg to acknowledge LGBTQ Pri Month or the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia. March 25, 2020 – Preacher Ralph Drollger, who leads a weekly Bible study for Cabet Secretari the Tmp Admistratn, wrote that he believ the ronavis panmic is a “nsequential” or “sowg and reapg” form of wrath that directly stems om tolerance of “a proclivy toward lbianism and homosexualy. June 21, 2017- Reportg reveals Print Tmp hired a lawyer who openly supported Rsian Print Vladimir Put’s anti-LGBTQ law banng so-lled “gay propaganda” om Rsia, a law that Europe’s top human rights urt found to be illegal.