The United States institutional policy has prohibited officials from raising the multicolored flag in embassies, which is the symbol that represents homosexual groups.
US Vice President, Mike Pence, said he knew that the State Department indicated that on the flagpole of “our American embassies one flag should fly, and that´s the American flag, and I support that,” he added.
A controversy broke earlier this month after some U.S. embassies abroad called for the display of the rainbow flag, which has become an emblem for gay, transgender, bisexual and other groups.
NBC News quoted unidentified U.S. diplomats who said that President Donald Trump’s government denied the deployment authorization.
According to The Washington Post, despite the ban, several embassies hoisted the flag on the occasion of the “pride month” celebrated by the LGTBI+ (lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, intersex and other spectrum of sexuality) movements.
Today, along with the U.S. Mission in Nepal community, I join people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Intersex #PrideMonth, and reaffirm the U.S. commitment to defending human rights for all. #Pride2019 pic.twitter.com/5awKWtcP80
— U.S. Ambassador Dean R. Thompson (@USAmbNepal) June 1, 2019
U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, Randy Berry, who was former President Barack Obama’s Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI, even posted a photo on the Embassy’s Twitter account in which he is surrounded by the diplomatic mission staff dressed in multiple colors.
Translated by: José Espinoza
Noticias Newswire
