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Global LGBT Initiatives are being funded by American Taxpayers but 70% aren’t on board

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Important Takeaways:

  • How the US Spent $4.1 Billion on Global LGBT Initiatives
  • The US government is pouring money into LGBT initiatives in US schools, as well as countries from Belarus to Nigeria to China.
  • During the past three fiscal years, $4.1 billion in federal money from taxpayers has flowed to LGBT initiatives in the United States and around the world, an Epoch Times investigation has revealed.
  • From Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2023, the U.S. government issued more than 1,100 grants to fund LGBT-promoting projects around the world, according to a review of a federal spending website.
  • An Armenian activist group, the Pink Human Rights Defender, received $1 million from the United States “to empower the LGBTI community”
  • The U.S. government awarded Serbian activist group Grupa Izadji a grant of $500,000.
  • Overall, during the past fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, the government issued 454,821 grants.
  • Of grants connected to the keyword “LGBT,” individual payouts of at least $1 million totaled more than $3.7 billion combined.
  • LGBT cultural projects in America that received funding include more than $333,000 for an LGBT radio and television “digitization and access project.”
  • Another provided $324,000 to map “historical LGBTQ spaces through gay travel guides.
  • Government-directed LGBT grants to American schools included $1.4 million to Boston College to study “mechanisms of health promotion in diverse youth through gay-straight alliances.” The grant funded the promotion of gay-straight alliance clubs in Massachusetts middle and high schools.
  • “The federal government is using the grant process to change the culture and climate in America’s public schools,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told The Epoch Times.
  • The federal government pursues this policy of “cultural revolution” against the will of most Americans, Ms. Justice said.
  • A recent poll by the group found that more than 70 percent of Americans want schools to teach basic educational skills and don’t want gender ideology or sexual orientation instruction in classrooms, Ms. Justice said.
  • Yet money flows to these projects.

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