Diplomats

Ralph Drollinger is the latest Trump associate with an anti-LGBTQ history, openly willing to cozy up to bigots and dictators. What else is new?

As long as your willing to wreck international relationships and break norms, being gay is no barrier in the Trump administration.

Ambassador Stephen Brady offered to resign after a disagreement involving Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s reception at an airport tin Paris.

A French newspaper reports that Pope Francis met France’s nominated ambassador to the Holy See, who is openly gay, and told him that the Vatican would not accept his appointment.

The Vatican has yet to approve the appointment of an openly gay French ambassador to the Holy See, prompting observers to interpret the silence as a rebuke of the man’s sexual orientation.

The U.S. Department of State will announce the appointment later this month of a special envoy to advocate for the rights of LGBT people overseas.

As the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius is the seventh openly LGBT person named as an ambassador under the Obama administration.

Daniel Baer, the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), married his partner Brian Walsh in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. Baer is the seventh openly LGBT person appointed by President Barack Obama and the first to a multilateral institution.

President Barack Obama has nominated Ted Osius as the next Ambassador to Vietnam, the White House has announced.

NEW DELHI, India — The leader of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Wednesday that India should “arrest and punish” U.S. diplomats in India who have “same sex companions” as same-sex acts is illegal in the country.