{"id":1622924,"date":"2022-08-26T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622924"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:26:00","slug":"freedom-of-expression-foggy-bottom-stands-by-10k-grant-to-queer-film-fest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/freedom-of-expression-foggy-bottom-stands-by-10k-grant-to-queer-film-fest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Freedom of Expression\u2019: Foggy Bottom Stands by $10K Grant to Queer Film Fest"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ffreedom-of-expression-foggy-bottom-stands-by-10k-grant-to-queer-film-fest-2%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=1622924&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">State Department proud to fund festival featuring incest, pedophilia <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tQueer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival \/ Twitter\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 25, 2022 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The State Department is standing by its decision to spend $10,000 in taxpayer funds on a film festival that <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/the-state-department-used-your-tax-dollars-to-fund-a-film-festival-that-depicted-drag-queens-incest-and-pedophilia\/\">featured<\/a> movies with incest and pedophilia, according to communications with Congress obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department is defending a $10,000 grant awarded to Queer Lisboa, an international queer film festival held in Portugal, saying that it has no problem awarding taxpayer funds to a film festival that displayed controversial movies featuring drag queens, acts of incest, and pedophilia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States strongly supports protecting and promoting the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons,&#8221; the State Department wrote to Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), who raised concerns about the grant during a July hearing. &#8220;We support freedom of expression and do not censor our grantee\u2019s content or products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s comments are fueling accusations that it is abandoning its traditional diplomatic responsibilities to drive a radical social agenda that damages the United States abroad. With threats increasing from hostile countries such as China, Russia, and Iran, the State Department is abusing taxpayer funds to push a radical woke agenda, critics like Rubio say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of focusing on combating rogue regimes like the Chinese Communist Party, the Kremlin, or the Mullahs in Tehran, the Biden administration is using our diplomats to advance a radical, Marxist social agenda at home and abroad,&#8221; Rubio told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio grilled the State Department\u2019s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, about the grant in July, asking: &#8220;How would promoting a drag queen film festival in Portugal advance our national interest?&#8221; Abercrombie-Winstanley said she didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>The grant came as part of the Biden administration&#8217;s push to &#8220;support LGBTQI+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion &#038; Accessibility efforts&#8221; abroad, according to a State Department official.<\/p>\n<p>The grant helped fund &#8220;one of the most popular LGBTQI+ film festivals in Europe since 1997,&#8221; according to the State Department. &#8220;The grant supported the screening of the iconic 1991 LGBTQI+ film <em>My Own Private Idaho<\/em> amongst other films by Gus Van Sant and influential American LGBTQI+ filmmakers, bringing an American perspective and talent to the festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other films included <em>P.S. Burn This Letter Please<\/em>, a documentary about drag culture in New York City;\u00a0<em>Saint-Narcisse<\/em>, a film featuring incestuous twins; and\u00a0<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 later has sex with an adult bartender, as the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> first reported.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department says the grant to this film festival is just one piece of efforts to promote &#8220;human rights and social inclusion of LGBTQI+&#8221; people abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This award made up one part of our overall Public Diplomacy engagement between the United States and Portugal, supporting our shared values on human rights and social inclusion of LGBTQI+ persons, while advancing our overall diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts,&#8221; the State Department told Rubio.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News State Department proud to fund festival featuring incest, pedophilia  Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival \/ Twitter  Adam Kredo \u2022 August 25,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1622928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}