{"id":124659,"date":"2020-02-21T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/grenell-trump-administration-have-failed-miserably-in-year-old-campaign-to-decriminalize-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:26:19","slug":"grenell-trump-administration-have-failed-miserably-in-year-old-campaign-to-decriminalize-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/grenell-trump-administration-have-failed-miserably-in-year-old-campaign-to-decriminalize-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenell, Trump Administration Have Failed Miserably in Year-Old Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grenell, Trump Administration Have Failed Miserably in Year-Old Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality<\/b><\/p>\n

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Richard Grenell, left, and Donald Trump (Twitter)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One year ago this week, the Trump administration launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.<\/a><\/p>\n

The campaign was to be led by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany who this week became the nation’s first openly gay cabinet secretary. <\/a><\/p>\n

But NBC News<\/a> reported Thursday that the campaign hasn’t accomplished much. In fact, one expert said the Trump administration isn’t even trying. <\/p>\n

Currently, there are 68 countries where homosexuality is illegal. Only one, Botswana, has decriminalized homosexuality in the last year, through a court ruling in a case that began long before 2019. <\/p>\n

Charlotte Clymer, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, said there is no evidence of “meaningful efforts by this administration to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.”<\/p>\n

“It would be different if they were trying, but it’s not even clear they are doing anything meaningful at all,” Clymer said. “It is yet another case of the Trump-Pence White House making promises to LGBTQ people, even while they enable discrimination and violence against us at home and abroad.”<\/p>\n

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No person should be harmed, tortured, or killed because of their sexual orientation. pic.twitter.com\/ow3D95HBox<\/a><\/p>\n

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

In December, Grenell hosted a U.N. breakout session on decriminalizing homosexuality, but one LGBTQ activist cast doubt on its effectiveness. <\/p>\n

“What came out of that, I don’t know, and who actually went there, I don’t know, because I have been asking around afterwards to LGBTI activists around Europe, and they all said, ‘We have not been invited,’” said Remy Bonny, a political scientist studying LGBTQ rights in eastern and Central Europe. <\/p>\n

Of course, it also doesn’t help that Grenell has been busy propping up far-right European political parties that are hostile to LGBTQ people, helping to fuel the phenomenon known as “pink-washing.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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