Canada, Europeans and Brazil, Not US, Issue Statement Backing LGBT RightsLink to Full ArticleU.S. News By Reuters|
June 28, 2025, at 9:38 p.m.
The foreign ministries of Canada, Australia, Brazil and a host of European countries issued a statement on Saturday celebrating LGBT rights to coincide with Pride Day.
The United States, which has moved rapidly to dismantle civil rights protections since the election of President Donald Trump, was not among its signatories.
The statement, whose backers also include Spain, Belgium, Colombia, Ireland and other nations, said the countries "are speaking and acting as one to champion the rights of LGBTQI people," using the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people.
"At a time when hate speech and hate crimes are on the rise, and in view of efforts to strip LGBTQI people of their rights, we reject all forms of violence, criminalization, stigmatization or discrimination, which constitute human rights violations," the statement said.
The U.S., once a champion of gay rights abroad, has reversed course under Trump, whose administration has rapidly dismantled longstanding civil rights protections for LGBT people and expelled transgender servicemembers from the military.------------------
"It was not immediately clear why the United States was absent."
Really? Let me list the reasons. Hold my beer.
