Semafor reports:
The US State Department has suspended its organization for LGBTQ employees, with leadership ordering a pause on all official activities. The move is part of the department’s wider directive to all employee affinity groups to “cancel any planned events, meetings, announcements or other activities,” GLIFAA, the official group representing LGBTQ State Department employees, told its members in an email that Semafor obtained.
The State Department also has affinity organizations for Christians, veterans, and various minority groups. he Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency canceled Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month activities, while the US Air Force eliminated groups working to ensure equal opportunities for women, and service members who are disabled, Hispanic, Black, LGBTQ, and Native American.
Read the full article. The DOJ did the same last week.
The State Department travel website just removed ‘LGBTQ’ from its website and replaced it with ‘LGB.’
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards.bsky.social) January 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM