The US Department of State will soon select an openly gay diplomat to oversee ternatnal human rights advocy for LGBT people.
Contents:
- JOHN KERRY APOLOGIZ FOR FORMER ABE OF GAY & LBIAN ERNMENT EMPLOYE
- KERRY SEEKS ASYLUM FOR BRAZILIAN GAY MAN
- GAY MARRIAGE ISN’T WHAT BEAT KERRY
- JOHN KERRY TO SELECT GAY DIPLOMAT FOR OVERSEAS LGBT RIGHTS
- JOHN KERRY WEIGHS IN ON ARIZONA'S ANTI-GAY BILL
JOHN KERRY APOLOGIZ FOR FORMER ABE OF GAY & LBIAN ERNMENT EMPLOYE
One employee ma gay accatns bee of “the effemate mannerisms of hand” and the “jelly hand shake” of some male lleagu. * john kerry gay *
State Department history scrib the “Lavenr Sre” of this perd, that is, the wch hunts of gay and lbian employe workg for the US ernment. The Divisn of Secury (SY) had hundreds of State Department employe fired for beg gay or lbian.
KERRY SEEKS ASYLUM FOR BRAZILIAN GAY MAN
Sen. John Kerry has asked the Obama admistratn to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he married a U.S. cizen Massachetts. * john kerry gay *
For the next few years, spected homosexuals were purged om the Department’s ranks, sometim on spur evince, bee many nflated what they viewed as qutnable morals wh Communist tennci, or feared that such people would be more vulnerable to Communist prsur.
GAY MARRIAGE ISN’T WHAT BEAT KERRY
* john kerry gay *
Boyk, Director of the Office of Controls, to make “every effort…to prevent the [Foreign] Service om gettg the imprsn that the Department is nductg a ‘wch hunt’” for homosexual employe. The Department fired 54 people nsired to be homosexuals 1950, 119 1951, and 134 1952. The trend ntued, as 74 of the Department’s 107 dismissals rulted om homosexualy alone the first months of 1953.
JOHN KERRY TO SELECT GAY DIPLOMAT FOR OVERSEAS LGBT RIGHTS
The Department sisted that s cisn to classify gays and lbians as extreme secury risks was ma “entirely apart om any moral judgment. ” Even those perceived as homosexual were emed secury risks. Department employe began to acce their lleagu of beg gay or lbian–sometim anonymoly–and the flimsit of claims uld lead to vtigatns.
JOHN KERRY WEIGHS IN ON ARIZONA'S ANTI-GAY BILL
” Havg intified one potential homosexual secury risk, the employee soon implited dozens more, basg her accatns on ltle other than her “feme tun, ” as well as “the effemate mannerisms of hand” and the “jelly hand shake” of some male lleagu.