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News (USA)
Uganda’s president signs horrific “Kill the Gays” law. The Biden administration is reevaluating aid.
The law has drawn international condemnation, including from President Biden and Texas Republican Ted Cruz.
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News (USA)
Biden refuses to meet with Putin unless he’ll discuss freeing Brittney Griner
The Biden administration has proposed a prisoner swap and is waiting for Russia to either accept or negotiate.
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Politics
The US State Department never stops working for LGBTQ Americans
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States suspended operations in Kyiv. But they didn’t stop helping Americans who needed them – especially the queer community.
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News (World)
Brittney Griner gets vote of support from Congress as Russian trial looms
Less than one percent of criminal defendants in Russia are acquitted, a fact that looms heavy as the out WNBA player’s trial is set to start on Friday.
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Politics
Biden admin adds X gender marker to passports & TSA will change scanner machines to remove gender
The Biden administration just made travel a whole lot easier for transgender people with a series of policy changes. Retirement paperwork will get easier too.
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Lesbian pro-basketballer’s wife releases message on spouse’s Russian drug arrest
Brittney Griner’s arrest for cannabis vape cartridges is quickly becoming an international diplomatic crisis.
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Politics
Dems demand Biden lift order forbidding embassy staff from talking about same-sex marriage
The department’s official policy is to not “advocate for or against same-sex marriage overseas.”
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News (USA)
The State Department raises the Progress Pride flag over their headquarters
This weekend marks the first time that any Pride flag was officially flown by the State Department.
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Politics
Republicans join Marjorie Taylor Greene in backing bill that would ban rainbow flags
Marjorie Taylor Greene says the bill will “prevent Hate America flags from flying over American embassies.” The GOP has a strange way of celebrating the first day of Pride month.
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Politics
Biden administration reverses Trump’s ban on rainbow flags at embassies
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken authorized the rainbow flag at all American outposts, in time for Pride Month.
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Politics
Biden administration rejects Trump’s anti-LGBTQ international rights commission
The Trump administration tried to make religious freedom more important than LGBTQ rights. Sec. of State Antony Blinken rejected that today.
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Politics
Biden administration will allow U.S. embassies to fly Pride flags again
Antony Blinken also promised to appoint an LGBTQ rights envoy, which the Trump administration refused to.
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Politics
Pete Buttigieg will not be the ambassador to the UN. Will he end up at Veterans Affairs?
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is expected to be named to the position. She has 35 years of experience in the Foreign Service.