Get ready because you know it is coming. June is LGBTQ Pride Month. The month when American companies and corporations trip over each other to see who is the most “tolerant” of those in the LGBTQ community. But it is not just in the U.S. where Pride events are taking place. The leftists of the Biden administration, who are convinced the rest of the world thinks the same way they do, are gearing up for Pride Month by taking it worldwide. Of course, some of those events are focused on children — and the best part? You are paying for them.
The Biden State Department is hosting a whole array of LGBTQ events that include a gay film festival, an LGBT community conference, and the reading of “queer children’s” literature. The State Department even has a theme for this year’s events, “Pride and Protection: Human Rights for LGBTQI+ Persons around the World.” A State Department spokesman explained,
“The theme is a stark reminder not only of the constant danger faced by LGBTQI+ persons for living their lives authentically, but also of the importance of our continued efforts at the Department internationally. Even as we continue to be heartened by indications of progress towards LGBTQI+ equality, we are also alarmed by anti-LGBTQI+ and anti-democratic sentiments that seek to disenfranchise LGBTQI+ persons.”
So, just what are American taxpayers, whether they want to or not, getting for their funding of LGBTQ events in cities around the world? In Brno in the Czech Republic, events included the reading of “queer children’s literature” to young children. Then there was the “picnic for queer youth,” and an LGBT-affirming religious service that was performed by a female priest of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. However, the Czech LGBTQ community does not get a whole month, just a week, May 18-25. But that week cost U.S. taxpayers roughly $5,500.