Jam Hormel, First Out Gay U.S. Ambassador, Dead at 88

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY FAC PERSONAL ATTACKS
• GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH
• D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN
• GAY AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD: AMERI’S FIRST HANDSHAKE!
• THE GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A TV STAR
• OBAMA’S 6 GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS ARE LEADG THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS
• JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88
• THE SIX OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS WERE TOGETHER ONE ROOM
• JAM HORMEL, FIRST OUT GAY US AMBASSADOR, AD AT AGE 88
• GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR FAC BACKLASH DOMIN REPUBLIC
• OPENLY GAY US AMBASSADOR TREADS TOUCHY PATH DOMIN REPUBLIC
• TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN
• JAM HORMEL, FIRST OPENLY GAY US AMBASSADOR AND LONGTIME PHILANTHROPIST, DI AT 88
• OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY FAC PERSONAL ATTACKS

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GAY US AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY MARCH BUDAPT PRI MARCH

The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc. He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village. But never any gays.

“We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń. Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.

D.C. LAWSU CLAIMS AARP SERVIC ILLEGALLY FIRED GAY MAN

Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001. Bis I knew I’m the ‘only gay the village. In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament.

In 2014, he beme the first openly gay mayor the untry, takg the top learship role the northwt cy of Słupsk. This electn sent Biedroń to the European Parliament, as the first openly gay member om Poland.

GAY AMBASSADOR RUF GIFFORD: AMERI’S FIRST HANDSHAKE!

“I thk about the fact that so many gay women and men were not allowed to have posns like this the State Department for so long, ” he said.

And I also thk about the fact that there have been many before me who paved the way, cludg Jam Hormel, who as ambassador to Luxembourg unr Print Clton was the first openly gay ambassador. He's been nsistently open about beg gay, and often refers to his personal story of g out a time when dog so effectively led out rol polil learship. "Admtedly, Gifford's posn as an openly gay U.

THE GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A TV STAR

Ambassador is not, on s own, headle-grabbg material a hyper-progrsive, gay-iendly Sndavian natn that has long had a iendly relatnship wh the U. "It volv talkg about [LGBT] issu a way that is meangful -- and I don't mean jt announcg the fact that I'm gay, although that is part of . It's beg out and talkg about [beg gay] a way that isn't provotive.

"Given their high profile, DeVcent says he appreciat that he and Gifford are asked about their relatnship, bee "gay youth or a grandmother or parent somewhere" n see them together and hear their rpons. Gifford reunts a story of nng to a Frenchman who liv Copenhagen:"The man had been at the para and he said to me somethg like, 'Who would have thought that the Uned Stat of Ameri was gog to be the only untry marchg the Copenhagen Gay Pri Para? Before Obama’s princy, there had been only two openly gay U.

OBAMA’S 6 GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS ARE LEADG THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS

Although Hormel was emently qualified for the post and quickly won approval om the Senate Foreign Relatns Commtee, he was subjected to an ugly nfirmatn battle durg which he was famed and beltled by homophobic GOP senators such as Jse Helms and John Ashcroft. Bh and beme the first openly gay ambassadorial nomee nfirmed by the Senate. “For the past three years, I’ve urged the Secretary and her senr management team to redrs polici that discrimate agast gay and lbian employe.

Policy is that “Gay Rights are Human Rights.

Obama has appoted seven openly gay ambassadors: U.

JAM HORMEL, AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, DI AT 88

The six currently servg openly gay ambassadors recently participated a panel discsn — sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the Harvey Milk Foundatn, and GLIFAA, an anizatn for LGBT foreign service employe — at the Newsm Washgton, D. Particularly tertg is the ntrast between the experienc of Brewster the Domin Republic, which crimaliz homosexualy, and Gifford Denmark, a notably gay-iendly untry. In one, the ambassador and his hband are beleaguered and sometim vilified as a gay uple and advot for LGBT rights.

THE SIX OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADORS WERE TOGETHER ONE ROOM

Ex-print of the natn’s Evangelil Conaterny, Cristóbal Cardozo, lled the appotment “an sult to good Domin ctoms” and said is appropriate to send such an ambassador to “a untry where homosexual relatnships are not approved, neher legally nor morally.

Ambassador Brewster and his hband have persevered a untry that penaliz homosexualy and nstutnally bans same-sex marriage. They have refed to allow the hostily of homophob to ter their mment to equal rights. They know that their openns as a gay uple self mak a powerful statement:.

Ameri’s openly gay ambassadors are an imprsive group. The digny and rolutens of Ambassador Brewster the face of sult offers hope to those who are unable to stand up to homophobia themselv; and Baer’s nunciatn of Rsia’s anti-propaganda law gas creased credibily bee of his openns as to his own sexualy. The appotment of openly gay ambassadors helps fulfill Print Obama’s mpaign pledge to make the face of the Amerin ernment more reprentative of the natn’s people.

JAM HORMEL, FIRST OUT GAY US AMBASSADOR, AD AT AGE 88

Hormel, the first openly gay person to reprent the Uned Stat as an ambassador, died on Friday San Francis. Hormel as a sner and equated beg gay to havg an addictn or beg a Clton first nomated Mr.

GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR FAC BACKLASH DOMIN REPUBLIC

Hormel had been openly gay for three s.

He was long active the Democratic Party as a donor and served on the board of the foundatn of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt gay and lbian his nomatn was an issue for the Republin senators Jam Inhofe of Oklahoma, Tim Hutchson of Arkansas and Robert Smh of New Hampshire, who raised 11th-hour objectns as the Senate was phg to nfirm nome the ssn’s fal days that year. Hormel’s polil views and his gay rights activism as reasons to oppose his nomatn.

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OPENLY GAY US AMBASSADOR TREADS TOUCHY PATH DOMIN REPUBLIC

Jam Hormel, the first out gay U.

Chuck Hagel lled him too "aggrsively gay, " for which Hagel apologized years later, and another Republin senator, Tim Hutchson, claimed Hagel was anti-Catholic bee he lghed at the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Hormel served until Buttigieg, who this year beme the first out Cabet member as secretary of Transportatn, often spoke of the homophobia that kept Hormel om beg nfirmed.

His other acplishments clu fundg the Gay and Lbian Center at the San Francis Public Library, which is now the Jam Hormel LGBTQIA Center, pl work for the Human Rights Campaign, AIDS , and was a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he went on to be a member of the board of managers and tablish a faculty chair social jtice. Tribut are pourg Hoe Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Jim Hormel ma history as the first openly gay U. As the first openly gay Ambassador, he had the urage to be a pneer and had the patrtism to accept the challenge.

TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN

Tapped to be the ambassador to Luxembourg by Print Clton 1997, he was the first openly gay person to serve as an ambassador. Hormel Gay & Lbian Center at the San Francis Public Library. Whereas Jim endured homophobic abe om anti-LGBTQ U.

His other acplishments clu fundg the Gay and Lbian Center at the San Francis Public Library, which is now the Jam Hormel LGBTQIA Center, pl work for the Human Rights Campaign, many other LGBTQ+ anizatns, and AIDS was a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he went on to be a member of the board of managers and tablish a faculty chair social jtice. "Jim's own urage unr fire when he was subjected to a homophobic hate mpaign after his Ambassadorial nomatn by Print Clton was an spiratnal ttament to his character and tegry. Jim ma history as the first openly gay U.

JAM HORMEL, FIRST OPENLY GAY US AMBASSADOR AND LONGTIME PHILANTHROPIST, DI AT 88

There was a time when you uld be thrown out of the foreign service for beg openly gay. In 1997, when the first gay U. Ambassador, Jam Hormel, was nomated, many senators opposed him bee of his than 20 years later, six gay U.

OPENLY GAY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY MAK REPUBLIN HISTORY

They discsed their varied experienc around the world beg reprentativ not only of Ameri, but the gay muny. When Print Obama nomated Brewster 2013, a Roman Catholic rdal the Domin Republic referred to him g an anti-gay slur. But Baer mend big victori like the Uned Natns beatg back Rsian opposn to givg benefs to all spo of gay U.

THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

Staffers the dience was the State Department’s new LGBT envoy, reer foreign service officer Randy Berry, who officially starts the job April the event, we asked him how feels to be the first ever tasked as the pot person on gay issu around the world. Jam Hormel, the first out gay person to serve as a US ambassador and a San Francis philanthropist, has died at the age of 88. Hormel served as US ambassador to Luxembourg om 1999 to 2000, weatherg homophobic attacks and fierce opposn to him beg a foreign envoy.

The Senate Foreign Relatns Commtee advanced Hormel’s nomatn to the full US Senate that year, but a vote was blocked by nservative Republins, who were outspoken agast Hormel’s gay rights advocy.

Ultimately, other openly gay dividuals were appoted whout the ranr that went to my se. He ntributed to several , cludg HIV/AIDS service anizatns and a breast ncer group, and donated to create the San Francis Public Library’s Gay and Lbian Center.