Trump election sparks concern among activists around the world
LGBTQ activists and advocacy groups around the world have expressed concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s election. “I worry that Trump’s win means no protection for global LGBTQ+ human rights,” Sexual Minorities Uganda Executive Director Frank Mugisha told the Washington Blade.
Mugisha added Trump “won’t or step in to support us” when “we are under attack with extreme anti-gay legislations.” (The Biden-Harris administration last year imposed visa restrictions on Ugandan officials and removed the country from a program that allows sub-Saharan African countries to trade duty-free with the U.S.
after President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act.) Esteban Paulón, a long-time LGBTQ activist in Argentina who won a seat in the country’s Congress in 2022, echoed this concern and Mugisha. “My first reaction (to Trump’s election) is concern over how it is going to impact (LGBTQ) rights in the international sphere,” Paulón told the Blade.
Biden in 2021 signed a memo that committed the U.S. to promoting LGBTQ and intersex rights abroad as part of his administration’s overall foreign policy.
