The administration is responding in part to a reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Trump’s top geopolitical foe.
The Trump administration is launching a global campaign to end the criminalisation of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it’s still illegal to be gay, U.S. officials tell NBC News, 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 Trump administration, is leading the effort, which kicks off Tuesday evening in Berlin. The U.S. embassy is flying in LGBTQ activists from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalisation in places that still outlaw homosexuality — mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.
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