Trump’s global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality is a ‘sham’
Richard Grenell, and held up as an example of Trump’s supposed pro-LGBTQ stance by gay conservatives, the campaign purported to use the United States’ global influence to push countries to remove any laws that criminalized same-sex sexual relations.But multiple LGBTQ organizations and human rights activists have told The Daily Beast that the campaign is “smoke and mirrors” with zero visible accomplishments.The campaign was launched with much fanfare by Grenell in February last year, who told NBC News at the time that it was “unbelievable to believe that in today’s world a 32-year-old man in Iran can be hanged simply for being gay.