Posted on 10/09/2023 9:21:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During the past three fiscal years, $4.1 billion in federal money from taxpayers has been flowing 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 the Epoch Times review of a federal spending website.
The scope of projects varies widely.
Plans to create a "safe space for LGBTQ youth and adults to seek support and resources" earned a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. government in 2022 for the LGBT Life Center in Norfolk, Virginia.
A proposal for encouraging "diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people in Serbia" also was a winning plan. To fund it, the U.S. government awarded Serbian activist group Grupa Izadji a grant of $500,000.
An Armenian activist group, the Pink Human Rights Defender, received $1 million from the United States "to empower the LGBTI community" in Armenia, a tiny country next to Turkey.
The federal spending website can be filtered to show entries that include specific keywords. A list of payouts filtered by using the keyword "LGBT" included 1,181 grants, 31 loans, and nine direct payments during the past three fiscal years.
Overall, during the past fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government issued 454,821 grants.
Government grants provide free money for specific purposes. Federal loans can be repaid over long periods of time at low interest rates. Direct payments from the government give money to groups—they may be unrestricted, or for a specific use.
Of grants connected to the keyword "LGBT," individual payouts of at least $1 million totaled more than $3.7 billion combined. Many additional smaller grants also were awarded for LGBT initiatives but were not reviewed.
When the list was filtered for grants including the word "transgender," 574 were listed. In that category, grants that paid out at least $1 million totaled nearly $478 million. Seven direct payments and nine loans with the keyword "transgender" also were issued by the U.S. government.
An independent researcher who asked to remain anonymous has been tracking how the federal government spends money on grants related to gender ideology.
He started the work when he was laid off from his oil field job in the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. After doing some digging, he was shocked to learn that, while he and his friends got little relief from the federal government, taxpayer dollars poured into LGBT activist causes, he said.
"I just couldn't believe it," he said. "We're all getting laid off, getting exempted from all this COVID money that's getting handed out to everybody, and nobody seemed to give a [expletive]."
He now works at a politically left-wing oil company, he said. And his superiors likely would object to how he now presents his findings on social media, he told The Epoch Times.
"I could write for 20 years about just the money that's already been spent over the past three or four years," he said.
The oil worker-turned-investigator shares his findings on X under the handle Randoland.us. The account has more than 12,000 followers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
"If you search for grants from the [U.S.] Department of Education with the word 'equity' in them, it'll blow your mind how much money is being spent just on equity-aligned initiatives," he said. He figures he's uncovered about $240 million in "grants going toward equity initiatives."
One discovery revealed an ongoing grant paid to Emory University so researchers can study "the rectal mucosal effects of cross-sex hormone therapy among U.S. and Thai transgender women," The Epoch Times confirmed.
Activists rallying to support people who identify as transgender gather on the steps of City Hall, in New York, New York, on Oct. 24, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The project started in 2019 with a projected end date of July 2024. According to the government website, researchers will receive almost $3.5 million from the U.S. government to do the work.
The project is categorized under "allergy and infectious diseases research," with the stated purpose to "assist public and private nonprofit institutions and individuals to establish, expand, and improve biomedical research and research training in infectious diseases and related areas," according to the federal spending website.
Some small grants focus on studies that examine equally tiny portions of the population.
One grant recipient examines the impact of alcohol on intimate partner violence in transgender and non-gender-conforming adults, The Epoch Times confirmed.
A 2023 project received nearly $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to translate the Homosaurus—a thesaurus of LGBT terms—into Spanish.
The Homosaurus website includes definitions for sexual terms such as: "anonymous sex," "aromantic porn films," "pederasts," "children's sexuality," and "gay children."
The Homosaurus has reclassified as "fetishes" the words "gerontophilia," "ephebophilia," and "hebephilia," Greek words that mean sexual attraction to the elderly, people 15-19, and children 11-14, respectively.
The Epoch Times contacted the NEH about the grant but received no response.
A rainbow flag hangs below the American flag near the entrance to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, on June 25, 2021. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)
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."
One grant offers $1 million "to advance the human rights and social inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people" worldwide. The money went to Outright Action, an American activist group dedicated to global LGBT advocacy operating in many countries, including Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, the Philippines, Iran, and China.
Another grant pays for a "social biography of same-sex desire in postcolonial Ireland."
One provides funding to chronicle contributions to "gender identity development" among Belarusian teenage girls in vulnerable families.
The government directed LGBT grants at American educational institutions, as well.
And Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice isn't happy about it.
"The federal government is using the grant process to change the culture and climate in America's public schools," Ms. Justice told The Epoch Times.
In her experience as a local school board member, she saw government-funded activist groups lead the ideological capture of schools, she said.
"The grants go to 'community partners,' and 'community partners' then go in, and they work to change the procedure in the schools" to favor and teach LGBT activist worldviews, she said.
Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty. (Tiffany Justice/Moms for Liberty)
The federal government pursues this policy of "cultural revolution" against the will of more than 70 percent of Americans, according to polls by Moms for Liberty, 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 do not want gender ideology or sexual orientation instruction in classrooms, Ms. Justice said.
Yet money flows to these projects.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) gave $1.2 million to "LGBTQIA+ pride centers" in the San Diego Community College District.
Another DOE grant of almost $1.6 million was awarded for North Dakota's “indigenous, LGBTQIA+, rural and underserved school-based mental health needs.”
A DOE grant gave $1.4 million to Boston College to study "mechanisms of health promotion in diverse youth through gay-straight alliances." In plain speak, the grant funded the promotion of gay-straight alliance clubs in Massachusetts middle and high schools.
The Epoch Times contacted the DOE but received no response.
"The federal government thumbs their nose at the American people and continues to push this ideology into our schools," Ms. Justice said.
"They're doing it all over the world."
You know what, there has to be some recourse for my hard earned taxes, MY MONEY, paying for stuff I don’t agree with. Deep in my soul, this LGBT BS is wrong and I resent with every fiber in my body that my money goes to pay for this shit to be pushed around the world.
https://rumble.com/v3bs0vj-tuckers-speech-in-budapest-the-word-is-realigning-at-high-speed.html
Tucker apologizes to Hungary for US push of LGBT. His demeanor makes me wonder if he is planning to run as POTUS eventually
It’s embarrassing and scary that Obama and Biden have led America down this reprobate path.
Obama was given fame and fortune by Satan, the god of this world 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4 (temporarily, but still, for thousands of years).
And he keeps right on doing the Devil’s work. And yet there are fools that still worship him. SMH
“He now works at a politically left-wing oil company,”
There has to be something really wrong here. The company must be suicidal, a sort of scam like “The Producers”, or part of a Democrat kickback/payoff scam, or just paying lip-service to the woke mob.
March 7, 2003 - MassNews; posted to FR by scripter
Mitt Romney was governor.
There were two occasions when children were bussed to Tufts University, for homosexual training - without parents knowledge; but I am not sure, now, if those two events at Tufts Univ. are mentioned in the following webpage(s) at FR.
Take a look at scripter's reply 7 (at the following link) for more links provided by scripter.
The OP article:
Fistgate to be Held Again on March 15 [2003]
Fistgate IV will be held again on March 15 [2003] to teach teenagers how to play with the sexual organs of other students.
The first Fistgate was in 2000 and caused waves of protests from parents and others. It was exposed by the Parents Rights Coalition which taped part of the scandal so that people would finally understand what was happening, and by MassNews which reported it.
The homosexual community has said that its agenda was badly damaged by the scandal. It was almost unable to find a location for the event in 2001, but Tufts University finally did let them use its facilities again.
The sponsor of the event, GLSEN, an acronym for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, says that the purpose of Fistgate is to teach safety and respect. But the event that was taped in 2000 went on for 55 minutes about explicit forms of homosexual sex, including thrusting your fist into another's rectum, before anything was even mentioned about condoms in the last five minutes.
Four years later in 2003, the Gay/Straight Alliance at Newton North High School, with the help of the state Dept, of Education, is handing out leaflets to students arriving at the school, which ask questions such as, "If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know that you wouldn't prefer that?"
It lists BAGLY as a resource for the teenagers to contact.
In 1999, which was before Fistgate, MassNews reported that BAGLY offered $25 and free dinner to boys who would come to their headquarters in Boston and discuss homosexual sex and other issues. The boys were also invited to a free, three-day, lakeside, weekend retreat in New Hampshire with other "boys" up to 25-years, who are "attracted to or have sex with other men."
The following is printed on the Newton High pamphlets: "This project is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education."
The state has been paying more than $1.5 million/year to help the Gay/Straight Alliances in the schools and similar activities. It is impossible to discover how much money is now going to those projects. Some of the money always went to GLSEN and it is assumed that much of it still does.
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Another OP by scripter on December 30, 2004:
Parents Booted from Campus for Taping Pro-Homosexual Events
EXCERPT:
Two parents outraged over a homosexual awareness day at a Massachusetts high school were kicked off the campus after a mom began videotaping the event.
Newton North High School in Newtonville recently held a "Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day." Students at the school were allowed to ditch classes and attend assemblies and workshops with titles such as "Out at the Old Ballgame" and "Color Me Queer." Presentations also included frank discussions advocating sodomy.
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The O’Biden perv/Pedo combo flashes cash
Spreading filth and sickness world wide.
And fulfilling Luke 17:28-32
Just as prophesied by Christ Himself
Using our tax dollars to spread the rot
The Federal budget is like recycling.
If in doubt, leave it out.
The only federal grants should be for useful education [Pell Grants], science and technology R&D.
It is not the job of the US government to pervert other countries.
It's more like we live in an idiocracy.
I already know the answer to this question, but where were the Republicans when this budget was passed?
Save for later
I use a capital 'S' for Sodomy, because it is the name of a religion.
The kakistrocrats who gave this billions of dollars have given aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
We’ve spent over $4 billion in US taxpayer money to blatantly interfere with the cultures of people and nations around the world. The overwhelming majority of us were never asked if we wanted our taxes spent in this way, and what we’ve bought with our spent tax dollars is world-wide resentment at our meddling and a growing world-wide perception that the US is decadent and perverted.
BTT
I must have missed the part where they Amended the Constitution to give themselves the power to do this.
Arrest them all and try them for crimes against the Republic.
Wow, 20 years ago. I remember the AFA well. It was so controversial, and from what I remember, accurate. I tried to verify everything I posted. You’re making me feel old! :-)
I really miss freeper EdReform. He was really helpful.
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