State Department

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.

“If I can’t trust you to catch a Saturday call outside of business hours, how can I trust you to actually be negotiating on my wife’s behalf to come home?” Brittney’s wife Cherelle said.

Led by Brittney Griner’s wife, the public campaign hopes that a meeting with Joe Biden will lead to her release.

Griner has been in a Russian jail for nearly 76 days now. The U.S. is finally speaking out in her defense.

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.

The legislation would deny visas to anti-LGBTQ human rights abusers.

Gifford is now the Chief of Protocol, who is expected to welcome foreign officials and maintain the United States’ diplomatic protocol.

“State Department is turning the American passport into a farce, not to mention flaunting God,” Franklin Graham ranted after the government announced it would use an X marker for intersex and nonbinary people.

The department’s official policy is to not “advocate for or against same-sex marriage overseas.”

Jessica Stern will become the second U.S. Special Envoy focused on LGBTQ rights after close to a decade leading a global advocacy group.

A profile quoted several Beltway veterans with only positive things to say about Jen Psaki. Only Sean Spicer bitterly complained, claiming he had it harder than she does.

The White House said that Biden chose Sharon Kleinbaum because she has long proven herself as “a powerful voice for religious freedom, LGBTQ rights and other human rights.”

The pages offered help to the country’s isolated LGBTQ population. Activists fear their removal is part of a larger crackdown on gay content and support groups.

Chantele Wong will be the first lesbian and the first out LGBTQ person of color in history to serve in an ambassador-level position.

Trans people can also correct the gender marker on their passports more easily now.

This weekend marks the first time that any Pride flag was officially flown by the State Department.

Jen Psaki was grilled on why the U.S. has never had lesbian & trans ambassadors. “Soon,” she said.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken authorized the rainbow flag at all American outposts, in time for Pride Month.

The teens were forced to make “apology videos.”

The trans woman who created the most prominent Transgender Pride Flag asks the new President: Can you allow embassies to fly the flag next to other Pride flags?