{"id":1561035,"date":"2022-07-19T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561035"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:35:22","slug":"the-state-department-used-your-tax-dollars-to-fund-a-film-festival-that-depicted-drag-queens-incest-and-pedophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-state-department-used-your-tax-dollars-to-fund-a-film-festival-that-depicted-drag-queens-incest-and-pedophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Department Used Your Tax Dollars To Fund a Film Festival That Depicted Drag Queens, Incest, and Pedophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-state-department-used-your-tax-dollars-to-fund-a-film-festival-that-depicted-drag-queens-incest-and-pedophilia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The State Department helped fund a film festival in September that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0oIO_0uXijQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured<\/a> movies depicting drag queens, incest, and pedophilia, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Queer Lisboa, an international queer film festival held in Portugal, was given $10,000 as part of the Biden administration&#8217;s push to &#8220;support LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion &#038; Accessibility efforts&#8221; abroad, according to a State Department spokeswoman. The festival&#8217;s offerings included <em>P.S. Burn This Letter Please<\/em>, a documentary about drag culture in post-war New York City,\u00a0<em>Saint-Narcisse<\/em>, a film about incestuous twins, and <em>Minyan<\/em>, a movie about a 17-year-old Jewish boy who leaves his parents to explore New York City\u2019s gay scene and eventually has sex with an adult bartender.<\/p>\n<p>The event was one of several bankrolled by taxpayers to promote LGBT acceptance abroad. In the last year, the State Department funded the &#8220;first gender and sexuality library in Lebanon,&#8221; provided diversity and inclusion consulting to Latin American police forces, and hosted a transgender recognition webinar in Norway, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Interagency-Report-on-the-Implementation-of-the-Presidential-Memorandum-on-Advancing-the-Human-Rights-of-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer-and-Intersex-Persons-Around-the-World-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interagency report<\/a>. The department said locals sometimes pushed back against LGBT promotion, perceiving it as &#8220;Western,&#8221; &#8220;imported,&#8221; or &#8220;against cultural or religious values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festival also screened a biopic of Harvey Milk, the United States\u2019 first openly gay elected official. Milk, a city official in San Francisco during the 1950s, once dated a 16-year-old boy while\u00a0Milk was in his 30s. He also tried to get another teenage boy to run away from home to live with him,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/07\/15\/why-doesnt-obama-condemn-boy-rapist-harvey-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/07\/15\/why-doesnt-obama-condemn-boy-rapist-harvey-milk\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1658327900442000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2zknugjC25huW_X0p7MQ0g\">according<\/a>\u00a0to a biography of the politician.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials at the U.S. Embassy in Portugal launched the event as part of the State Department&#8217;s effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Interagency-Report-on-the-Implementation-of-the-Presidential-Memorandum-on-Advancing-the-Human-Rights-of-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer-and-Intersex-Persons-Around-the-World-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implement<\/a> President Joe Biden\u2019s &#8220;Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World.&#8221; The head of the embassy <a href=\"https:\/\/pt.usembassy.gov\/gus-van-sant-in-queer-lisboa-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> gratitude and said she was &#8220;very happy&#8221; to support the festival as part of its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the State Department told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> their grant also paid for high-profile director and Democratic donor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/queerlisboa\/status\/1441121199019282441\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gus Van Sant<\/a> to speak at the event and facilitated travel to the luxurious island chain on which it was held. In its initial communication, the department declined to provide a dollar amount for the festival grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department helped fund a film festival in September that featured movies depicting drag queens, incest, and pedophilia, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. 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