LGBTQ group's drag show video to promote diversity in Ecuador funded by $25K State Department grant | 5 Feb 2025 | An LGBTQ group in Ecuador tapped into a $25,000 grant from the Biden State Department to produce a two-day drag workshop intended to promote diversity and inclusion abroad. Footage obtained by The Post showed drag queens donning makeup, strutting around topless wearing nothing but pasties and crowing about how the displays could be used as a "political tool." Fundacion Dialogo Diverso, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote democracy and the "LGBTIQ+ population" of the South American country, organized the drag show and published footage of it last July. The State Department footed some of the bill for the show through its Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration, for which the nonprofit thanked the department. "Funds provided by the U.S. government," a disclaimer at the end of the video read near an American flag, per a translation.

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