President Joe Biden’s State Department helped fund an international queer film festival in Portugal. The film festival, Queer Lisboa, took place in September and was gifted $10,000 from the Biden administration as part of its “Support LGBTQ+ and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility efforts” abroad.
The festival featured movies depicting drag queens, incest, and pedophilia. The Washington Free Beacon has learned:
The event was one of several bankrolled by taxpayers to promote LGBT acceptance abroad. In the last year, the State Department funded the “first gender and sexuality library in Lebanon,” provided diversity and inclusion consulting to Latin American police forces, and hosted a transgender recognition webinar in Norway, according to an interagency report. The department said locals sometimes pushed back against LGBT promotion, perceiving it as “Western,” “imported,” or “against cultural or religious values.”
The event was launched by officials at the U.S. Embassy in Portugal as part of the State Department’s effort to implement President Joe Biden’s “Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World.”
A spokeswoman for the State Department told the Free Beacon their grant also paid for high-profile director and Democratic donor Gus Van Sant 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.
The festival also screened a biopic of Harvey Milk, the United States’ first openly gay elected official. Milk was a city official in San Francisco during the 1950s. He is known for once dated a 16-year-old boy while he was in his 30s. He also tried to get another teenage boy to run away from home to live with him, according to a biography of the politician.