Tmp nam the first openly gay person to a bet-level posn – The Hill

Contents:

• TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
• DONALD TMP APPOTS THE FIRST GAY PERSON TO A CABET-LEVEL POSN
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
• THIS TMP SPOKPERSON IS GAY — AND HE DON’T CARE IF THAT MAK THE LEFT MAD
• GAY WORKERS NOT VERED BY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, TMP ADM TELLS SUPREME COURT
• TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER
• RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY

TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN

Print Tmp beme the first print to name an openly gay person to a Cabet-level posn this week wh the appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence. The iative followed the reported hangg of a gay man Iran, one of the Tmp admistratn’s adversari, and an op-ed for a German news publitn Grenell voiced a ll to arms.

BERLIN — The Tmp admistratn is lnchg a global mpaign to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy dozens of natns where 's still illegal to be gay, U.

DONALD TMP APPOTS THE FIRST GAY PERSON TO A CABET-LEVEL POSN

Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the hight-profile openly gay person the Tmp admistratn, is leadg the effort, which kicks off Tuday eveng Berl. 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).

The report intified 72 natns that still crimalize homosexualy, cludg eight where ’s punishable by list clus the Uned Arab Emirat, Pakistan and Afghanistan — all U. In Egypt, whose lear Tmp has effively praised, homosexual relatns aren’t technilly illegal but other moraly laws are ed aggrsively to target LGBT U.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

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.

His nventn also featured another first: PayPal founr Peter Thiel beme the first gay person to acknowledge his sexualy a speech to the GOP nventn, clarg he was “proud to be gay. But sce he took office, his admistratn has sled back some workplace protectns for gay people and has argued urt that a feral anti-discrimatn law don’t protect gay employe. But he said “reasonable people” mt keep speakg out about laws other plac, cludg Iran and Chechnya, the Rsian regn where thori have cracked down vlently on gay people recent years.

RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’

Edor's note:While Print Tmp’s appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence n be cricized for other reasons, is a remarkable velopment given that the telligence muny nied employment to gay and lbian Amerins until relatively recently, argu Jam Kirchick.

THIS TMP SPOKPERSON IS GAY — AND HE DON’T CARE IF THAT MAK THE LEFT MAD

For the first time Amerin history, an openly LGBT person will lead the telligence muny, a remarkable velopment nsirg that, until relatively recently, not only nied employment to gay and lbian Amerins but thoroughly purged them om s ranks. Begng 1953, when Print Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive orr nyg work to those spected of “sexual perversn, ” thoands of gay men and women were forced out of the feral burecracy. Many gay and lbian workers quietly rigned rather than face huiatg secury terrogatns, others mted suici whout leavg an explanatn, and untold numbers never even applied for jobs due to the prohibn on their employment.

GAY WORKERS NOT VERED BY CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, TMP ADM TELLS SUPREME COURT

Bee homosexualy was legally proscribed most stat until the 1970s and socially anathema, gays were nsired more sceptible targets for recment by hostile foreign telligence servic than heterosexuals. So shameful was the homosexual’s secret, so o to his reputatn and livelihood were exposed, he would prumably do anythg, cludg betray his untry, to keep ncealed.

TMP TELLS GAYS FOR TMP SUPPORTER THEY ‘DON’T LOOK GAY’ AT FUNDRAISER

Redl’s motivatn was pure greed; his homosexualy was not even known to his Rsian handler, nor would s exposure necsarily have ed a ary reer late Belle Époque Vienna. However, hopg to downplay the embarrassment of a mole at the very top of s untertelligence apparat, the ary leaked that Redl was gay and had been blackmailed by the Rsians over . Five s after Redl was hand a pistol and stcted to take his own life as punishment for treason, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dull clud an acunt of the legend an anthology he eded and wrote elsewhere that the Atrian lonel suffered om “two weakns — homosexualy and overwhelmg venaly.

Inditive of how damagg homosexualy was nsired to be at the time was the bt-sellg 1959 novel of Washgton polics “Advise and Consent, ” later ma to a h film directed by Otto Premger. The book’s plot centered around a patrtic senator who mted suici after one of his unscpulo lleagu threatened to expose a fleetg, gay wartime affair.

RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY

Although “Advise and Consent” was unual for s sympathetic portrayal of a gay character, neverthels prented the homosexual’s plight as so drastic that ath was nsired preferable to havg his secret disclosed. In 1950 ttimony before a closed ngrsnal mtee vtigatg gay people feral employment, Rose Hillenkoetter, the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency, tegorilly clared that his agency “will never employ a homosexual on s rolls.

Hillenkoetter allud to a se that year volvg a “Soviet telligence operatn” where “our task will be ma nsirably easier by the appearance the area of a known homosexual who we thk will be extremely helpful this particular se.

This openns to the potential recment of gay people telligence work was ultimately st asi as the Cold War spired a send, more sid, ratnale for nyg secury clearanc to gays: that subversive sexualy cled one to subversive polics. Although Burgs was openly gay and Mchell had once admted to btialy his youth, there was no ditn that eher’s sexualy played a role their treachery.