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11 06, 2019

Mike Pence Defends Ban on PRIDE Flags at U.S. Embassies

By JRL Charts|2025-10-02T19:44:59-07:00June 11th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: LGBT Politics NBC News, mike pence, president Donald Trump, PRIDE flag, pride flag attacks, pride flag ban, Rainbow flag on U.S Embassies, US State Department|

WASHINGTON , D.C. — (06-11-19) — Vice President Mike Pence defended his anti-LGBT stance on banning PRIDE Flags on U.S. Embassy flagpoles in an interview with NBC News. On Monday, Pence said that the Trump administration's decision to prohibit U.S. embassies from flying the rainbow PRIDE flag on their flagpoles during LGBTQ Pride Month, was [...]

7 06, 2019

Trump Bans U.S. Embassies from flying PRIDE Flag Worldwide

By JRL Charts|2025-09-17T12:05:56-07:00June 7th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: ambassador Richard Grenell, Brian Bulatao, lgbt politics, Mike pompeo, pride flag attacks, pride flag ban, pride flag ban from embassies, pride flags, state department, US State Department|

WASHINGTON, D.C — (06-07-19) — The Trump administration bans U.S. Embassies who have requested to hang the PRIDE flag from its flag polls to salute PRIDE month. Three American diplomats leaked to NBC News, that the state department has been rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow pride flag on embassy flagpoles during [...]

3 04, 2019

Gay Sex Punishable by Stoning to Death in the Kingdom of Brunei

By JRL Charts|2025-08-09T20:38:44-07:00April 3rd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics, World LGBT News|Tags: Antonio Panzeri, chairman of the European Parliament’s subcommittee human rights, Gay sex stoning to death, kingdom of Brunei, Reuters, Sharia law new penal code, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, US State Department|

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BRUNEI — (04-03-19) — Gay sex and adultery are now punishable by stoning to death in the oil-rich kingdom of Brunei. Indeed, even in the wake of astonishing individuals from the United Nations and world pioneers far and wide, the Muslim greater part country's administration is pushing forward with new Islamic laws [...]

23 01, 2018

U.S. State Department Sued By Binational Same-Sex Couples for Unequal Treatment

By JRL Charts|2025-08-09T20:34:00-07:00January 23rd, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Aaron C. Morris, Allison Blixt and Stefalia Zaccari, anti-LGBT policies, Dvash-Bankses, executive director, Immigration Equality, lawsuit, president trump, U.S Citizenship, US State Department|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer You Can Become U.S Citizen As Long As Your White and Heterosexual WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration Equality is going after the Trump State Department for its anti-LGBT policy upon same-sex marriage couples today by filing two lawsuits against the U.S. State Department on behalf of two same-sex couples whose children [...]

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