Did you know that nearly 70 countries have active anti-gay laws on the books? (You’d think that there would be protests at these countries' embassies or even a mention of this in the legacy media during a whole month dedicated to awareness of LGBTQ issues.) Hmmm, guess they forgot about this inconvenient truth, too.
Last May, Trump was speaking in New York and Los Angeles after police broke up pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University and UCLA. He said that these once-great cities are “no longer recognizable.” They have “opened their doors to jihad.” “We’ve seen what happened when Europe opened its doors to jihad,” the former U.S. president said as he campaigned for a return to the White House.
“Look at Paris, look at London — they’re no longer recognizable.” He added that “we have incredible culture, tradition — nothing wrong with their culture, their tradition — we can’t let that happen here and I’ll never let it happen to the United States of America.”
The first Trump administration proposed a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it's still illegal to be gay, a bid aimed in part at denouncing Iran over its human rights record. U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the first Trump administration, has spearheaded the effort with Trump's endorsement. The U.S. embassy flew in LGBT activists in 2019 from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalization in places that still outlaw homosexuality, mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean.
“It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBT status or conduct,” said a U.S. official involved in organizing the event.
Grenell, as Trump’s former envoy to Germany, has been an outspoken Iran critic and has aggressively pressed European nations to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions. But while the Trump administration has had some success in pressuring Iran through stepped-up U.S. penalties, efforts to bring the Europeans along have thus far largely fallen flat.
“This is not the first time the Iranian regime has put a gay man to death with the usual outrageous claims of prostitution, kidnapping, or even pedophilia. And it sadly won’t be the last time,” Grenell wrote. “Barbaric public executions are all too common in a country where consensual homosexual relationships are criminalized and punishable by flogging and death.”
President Donald Trump's initiative to globally decriminalize homosexuality, launched in 2019, has seen little progress and is currently inactive. His campaign aimed to pressure countries with anti-LGBTQ+ laws to reform will never receive support from those who claim to be defenders and protectors of LGBTQ people’s rights, because to do so would deprive them of their ability to constantly paint Trump as “Homophobic and Transphobic” These cynical charlatans clearly care more about political grandstanding than actually helping the gay community.I knew Trump's brother Robert personally, and he told me the idea that Donald Trump is anti-gay, racist, or even misogynistic is "ridiculous." He obviously knew the President his whole life and never saw any indication that these smears had any validity.
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