Trump’s Campaign To Decriminalise Homosexuality In Other Countries Called Out For ‘Sham’
August 27, 2020Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has tried to outreach to LGBT+ voters, with one of the administration’s few moves that gets repeatedly brought up being Trump’s campaign to end the criminalisation of homosexuality worldwide.
Now, LGBT+ human rights advocates are speaking out about how little that campaign has done, as ‘LGBTQ Nation’ reports. Back in 2019, out U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell announced a U.S.-led campaign to end the criminalisation of homosexuality worldwide. The campaign was a central feature in a video last week in which Grenell claimed Trump was “the most pro-gay president in American history.”
“The decriminalization campaign is smoke and mirrors,” Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, said. “The U.S. opposed criminalization long before President Trump took office – and saying people shouldn’t be imprisoned for being LGBT is the bare minimum of what the U.S. should be doing, not a bold endeavor.”
Other LGBT+ advocates noted that the campaign has really not done much of anything besides a couple meetings.
It was “nothing more than a series of self-promoting Twitter photos,” said Julie Dorf of the Council for Global Equality.
“There has never been any Trump administration decriminalization plan – no new funding to support the local LGBTQ+ activists working in those countries on decriminalization. They are the true heroes on the ground who deserve America’s support,” she added.
GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said that “Ending the criminalization of LGBTQ people is an urgent and a monumental task, but former Ambassador Grenell and the Trump administration have failed to announce actual resources or plans to accomplish.”
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