The Biden administration has given nearly $4.6 million to help foreign groups promote LGBT projects like drag shows and pride parades.

Advocacy groups from at least 55 foreign nations have received millions from the Biden State Department to fund a range of initiatives aimed at bolstering the LGBT community and spreading its ideology into the mainstream, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of federal spending databases. The United States has helped organize pride parades in at least seven different countries, paid for drag queen shows in Ecuador, funded a Polish advocacy group that encourages puberty blockers for children with gender confusion, and sent cash to a Mexican group that markets cross-sex hormones to gender-confused individuals.

The global funding spree is part of the Biden administration’s larger effort to promote a woke cultural agenda throughout the United States and abroad, even in countries with more traditional social values.

[The only surprising part of this is that it was *only* $4.6 million. I would have expected that number to be a lot higher, given the nature of this administration. Presumably that came out of petty cash at the State Department. It’s interesting that the same people who usually complain about American “cultural imperialism” feel the need to underwrite the embrace of the American Left’s most radical social activism. Los Yanquís están locos. — Ed]