US Taxpayers Funding ‘Drag Theater’ Shows in Ecuador to Promote ‘Diversity and Inclusion’; State Department Funds Ecuadorian Drag Shows in the Name of ‘diversity’; Fact Check: Is Biden Administration Funding Drag Shows in Ecuador?

US Taxpayers Funding ‘Drag Theater’ Shows in Ecuador to Promote ‘Diversity and Inclusion’: State Department

The U.S. State Department has given $20,600 in taxpayer money to an organization in Ecuador to promote tolerance, diversity, and inclusion through a series of initiatives that include hosting “12 drag theater performances.”

The funds were awarded on Sept. 30 to a non-profit called Centro Cultural Ecuatoriano Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln, a U.S.-Ecuadorian cultural center in Cuenca, Ecuador, the State Department confirmed to The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.

Among its various programs, the Ecuadorian center runs English classes for children aged 8–11, teenagers, and adults.

The money for the initiatives, which besides drag theater performances also includes three workshops and a 2-minute documentary film, was provided under the 19.040 Public Diplomacy Programs scheme, the State Department said in a grant summary fact sheet.

The aim of the 19.040 scheme is, according to the State Department, “to support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics and by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people and government of the United States and citizens of the rest of the world.”

Asked how the State Department considers this particular grant as furthering the objectives of the 19.040 program, the agency told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that it “supports a wide range of strategic programs in Ecuador that incorporate concepts from diversity, inclusion, and representation to equity and accessibility.” —>READ MORE HERE

State Department funds Ecuadorian drag shows in the name of ‘diversity’:

In the latest example of woke ideology infecting foreign policy, the Biden administration will be funneling money to South American drag shows.

The U.S. State Department awarded nearly $21,000 to the Centro Cultural Ecuatoriano Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln to “promote diversity and inclusion” through the use of 12 “drag theater performances.” The $20,600 project grant began on Sept. 30 according to an entry in the State Department database.

The money will “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics and by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people and government of the United States and citizens of the rest of the world,” according to the objective’s description.

The State Department also said in an email that the funds will further “tolerance.”

“The program’s goal is to promote tolerance and … provide new opportunities for LGBTQI+ Ecuadorians to express themselves freely and safely,” the State Department said in an email to the Washington Examiner. The press team did not address a question about age minimums for participation in the program. —>READ MORE HERE

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