The Tmp admistratn's top gay official opens up about his fah but mak some problematic statements about LGBTQ activism.
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- RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
- RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
Richard Grenell, a gay man who has been U. 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.
In 2012, Mt Romney faced cricism om a sectn of Republins for hirg Richard, a gay man, as his foreign policy spokman. Speakg to Brebart News on Saturday, Grenell, the first openly gay US bet member, said Tmp “don’t re about the typ of issu” when nsirg whom to appot for a posn. “You know, somebody recently asked me how many gays and lbians work the Tmp admistratn.
’ I said, ‘I’d be pretty offend that I was on a list that says, ‘Here’s our gay and lbian list, ’” Grenell said.
RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
Thank God we don’t hire people bee they e out of a box and say, ‘Here is a black, here is a Hispanic, here is a gay person, ’” he ntued. On Wednday, the Log Cab Republins, an anizatn dited to LGBT nservativ, unveiled a mpaign ad featurg Grenell which he lled Tmp “the strongt ally that gay Amerins have ever had the Whe Hoe. “The fact that I’m gay didn’t even faze Donald Tmp, ” he add the mpaign spot.
The new job, a bet-level posn, mak Grenell the hight servg openly gay man to hold feral office Uned Stat history. “I know I speak for so many the LGBT muny who love and support this urageo appotment by Print Tmp, ” add Whe, who is gay. Print Barack Obama never appoted an openly gay bet member, a source of bterns for LGBT activists at the time.
Last December — jt hours before his boss was impeached by the Hoe of Reprentativ — Grenell led the Uned Natns nmng 69 untri that still outlaw homosexualy. “I want them to unrstand that you nnot put someone jail or kill someone simply for beg gay, ” Grenell told the assembled reprentativ, some om natns where LGBTQ people are targeted.