commitment to defending human rights for all. Mission in Nepal community, I join people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Intersex #PrideMonth, and reaffirm the U.S. Several ambassadors and diplomats have also been seen participating in Pride Month festivities, whether going to parades or celebrating at their embassies. The embassy in Santiago, Chile, shows a video on its website of a diplomat flying a rainbow flag last month for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and the website for the Vienna embassy features a photo of the same flag. The Washington Post reported Saturday that diplomatic missions in Seoul, South Korea, and Chennai, India, sent out a press release and a video advertising the flag hanging outside their respective buildings, while the U.S. embassy in New Delhi updated its Twitter cover photo showing a rainbow projected on it. embassies and diplomatic missions around the world are hoisting rainbow flags in honor of Pride Month, despite a slate of rejections from the Trump administration of requests to fly the flag.
