Pence confirms U.S. rejected embassies' requests to fly pride flag: 'When it comes to the American flagpole, and American embassies, and capitals around the world, one American flag flies'
Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that the Trump administration rejected U.S. embassies’ requests to fly the rainbow pride flag in June, LGBTQ Pride Month, saying in an interview that only “one flag should fly.”
NBC first reported last week that embassies in Germany, Israel, Brazil and Latvia had requested permission from the State Department to fly the flag, a symbol of LGBTQ people around the world, but they were rejected. An unnamed official at the department told CNN that the U.S. Embassy in Berlin asked to fly the rainbow flag during the city’s Pride week, as it has for many years, but got an email back saying “no. Denied.
The U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who is gay, said he plans to hang a banner on the side of the building during Pride Month. Trump has been lambasted over the sincerity of his messages in support of June’s Pride Month celebrations and his claims that he was launching a “global effort to decriminalize homosexuality.” His administration has taken a number of steps in recent years to roll back protections based on sexual or gender identity, including recent efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. The vice president himself has a vast history of anti-LGBTQ views.
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