Celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility
March 31, 2022 – On this fourteenth International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), we are delighted to celebrate today’s breaking news that the U.S. State Department is making…
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Global Equality Today Newsletter
March 28, 2022 — Our periodic newsletter has a roundup of U.S. global engagement to support the human rights of LGBTQI communities abroad. It is also available online…
Read moreConfirm Dr. John Nkengasong as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
March 24, 2022 – Last September, the White House offered its nomination of Dr. John Nkengasong to serve as Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of United States Government Activities to…
Read moreThe Urgency of the LGBTQI Refugee Crisis
March 9, 2022 – Six months ago, the Council for Global Equality, along with five of its members and allies, wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to…
Read moreLesbian Leaders in Diplomacy
March 8, 2022 – To mark International Women’s Day, and following the confirmation of Ambassador Chantale Wong, our country’s first open lesbian ambassador, we want to celebrate rising…
Read moreStanding with Ukraine’s LGBTQI+ Community and Other Vulnerable Groups as Conflict Escalates
March 2, 2022 – Last week, as Russian forces launched a brutal invasion of Ukraine, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
Read moreHouse Passes Global Respect Act, First Global LGBTQI Bill
February 9, 2022 – The Council for Global Equality (CGE) congratulates Rep. Cicilline, Rep. Fitzpatrick and the House of Representatives for passing the Global Respect Act (H.R. 3485),…
Read moreChantale Wong Becomes America’s First Lesbian Ambassador
February 8, 2022 – Today, the United States Senate confirmed Chantale Wong as U.S. Executive Director to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the rank of ambassador. With…
Read moreLooking Back on the Biden Administration’s First Year of Global LGBTQI Engagement
February 4, 2022 – A year ago today, President Biden signed the “Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around…
Read moreWebinar Explaining LGBTQI Report Cards
December 7, 2021 – The Council for Global Equality hosted a webinar on the margins of the Summit for Democracy to measure the extent to which countries attending…
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