Richard Grenell, who has become the face of LGBTQ outreach in President Trump’s re-election campaign, said not meeting during his time in the administration with Germany’s far-right leader Alice Weidel, a lesbian, as he met with other party leaders was a “difficult thing,” according to a report Monday in the Carnegie Mellon University student newspaper The Tartan.
Grenell was quoted making those remarks in the context of a debate that took place Friday at the Institute for Politics & Strategy with Stuart Milk, the nephew of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk who has continued his uncle’s legacy to advance LGBTQ rights.
The two worked with each other on the Trump administration’s global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality, which was the