State Department allowing U.S. embassies to fly LGBT ‘Pride’ flags

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is allowing U.S. diplomatic posts around the world to fly the LGBT “Pride” flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. flag during “Pride season.”In a cable first reported by Foreign Policy magazine on April 22, Blinken granted U.S. diplomatic outposts “blanket written authorization … to display the Pride flag on the external-facing flagpole, for the duration of the 2021 Pride season.”

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