Tag: State Department
US State Department Denies Birthright Citizenship To Daughter Of Same-Sex Couple
The U.S. State Department is being sued by a gay couple, after their infant daughter, who was born via surrogacy in Canada, was denied birthright citizenship. Currently, birthright citizenship in the United States is extended to children born elsewhere in the world to U.S. citizens, however, Roee and Adiel Kiviti from Maryland say their daughter
Top state department official fired for being too homophobic to work with
One of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s senior aides was just fired after several members of her staff threatened to quit over her “abusive” management style.
Kiron Skinner was informed yesterday while she was on a trip to China that she was being ousted from her position as director of the agency’s Policy Planning Staff.
Politico reports that Skinner was let go because of “her ‘abusive’ management style, including making homophobic remarks and accusing people of having affairs.”
According to Politico:
Sounds like a...
Gay couple sues Trump administration for refusing their daughter American citizenship
A gay couple is suing the State Department for refusing to recognize their daughter as an American citizen.
Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department because they are being forced to go through a lengthy process to get an American passport for their daughter Simone, who was born to a surrogate in England with the help of an anonymous egg donor.
Mize and Gregg are married, both are listed on their daughter’s birth certificate, and...
A man cut off his gay son’s earlobe to mark him as an ‘abomination’
A 19-year-old gay man said that he is scared for his life if he is forced to go back to his home country after his father cut off his earlobe.
The teen, who has only been identified as “Modou” in the media, is from The Gambia and is trying to get asylum in the The Netherlands.
He told Gay Star News that he never planned to come out to his family.
“I was so afraid to tell my family about...
A government commission headed by an anti-LGBTQ activist will ‘reevaluate’ human rights
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new commission that he said will decide which human rights are more important to U.S. foreign policy.
The new Commission on Unalienable Rights will answer questions like “What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right?” and “How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be...
