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Will President Trump cut aid to international queer and intersex advocates?
“We have to be realistic,” said the World Bank’s first LGBT and intersex advisor.
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Dominicans see LGBT rights advancing thanks to gay US diplomat
A cultural shift is happening, helped by the presence of U.S. Ambassador James “Wally” Brewster, the first openly gay top diplomat the United States has posted to a Latin American country.
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Durbin asks Pope Francis to defend gay US official
A Democratic senator called on Pope Francis Tuesday to intervene with a cardinal who’s made derogatory comments about an openly gay man.
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Dominican Cardinal insults gay American ambassador
Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, told gay ambassador Wally Brewster to “stick to housework, since he is a man’s wife.”
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Senate confirms James ‘Wally’ Brewster as fifth openly LGBT ambassador
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has confirmed James “Wally” Brewster to serve as the country’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
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U.S. Senate conducts hearing for possible fifth openly LGBT ambassador
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Thursday conducted a confirmation hearing on the appointment James “Wally” Brewster to serve as the country’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
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Catholic Cardinal refers to gay U.S. Ambassador nominee as ‘faggot’
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — President Barack Obama’s choice of openly gay nominee, James “Wally” Brewster as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has touched off a firestorm of criticism including from Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who referred to Brewster in Spanish as a “maricón” — a slur usually translated as “faggot.”
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Dominican religious groups reject gay U.S. ambassador nominee
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Religious groups in the Dominican Republic said Friday they are outraged by the nomination of a gay U.S. ambassador to the conservative Caribbean country.
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Obama nominates two more openly gay men to diplomatic posts
WASHINGTON – The White House on Friday announced the nominations of John Berry to be the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, and James “Wally” Brewster, Jr., to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, bringing to five the number of openly LGBT ambassador nominations this month.