U.S. embassies defy Trump administration orders not to fly LGBT+ flags
Since the US State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to hoist rainbow flags outside the mission buildings during LGBT+ Pride Month this year, some diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy.
US diplomats in Jerusalem joined a March for Pride and Tolerance, and several ambassadors have tweeted photos of themselves in local Pride parades or standing outside the embassies surrounded by employees holding up letters spelling “PRIDE”. In 2011, the Obama administration directed agencies involved with foreign policy to promote LGBT+ rights, a striking policy for an agency that, up to the early 1990s, considered homosexuality a security risk and cause for termination.
The advisory cable that came out last year said diplomats are required to obtain top-level approval from the State Department’s Office of Management to fly a rainbow flag. Some embassies that have flown the flag in previous years opted this year to commemorate the month by posting on their websites president Donald Trump’s statement affirming LGBT+ rights and inviting nations to join a global campaign to decriminalise homosexuality.Some embassies got playful with the display of Mr Trump’s statement.
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