President Joe Biden‘s National Security Council has a new chief of staff, and he’s here, queer, and everybody’s already used to it!
Curtis Ried becomes the first out LGBTQ’er to hold the position, reports NBC News.
“We are excited to have Curtis take on this critical leadership role for our team,” said a statement from National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. “I’m confident he will bring to it his trademark smarts, skills, and collegiality, sharpened across his nearly 20 years as a Foreign Service Officer and multiple tours at the NSC.”
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Ried leaves his previous job as senior director for multilateral affairs at the NSC, and he has been a foreign service officer with the State Department of State for nearly two decades.
His work across the Middle East makes him uniquely qualified for the gig. He’s worked in Algeria, East Timor, Indonesia, Iraq and Israel. He served as a political adviser to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
He’s also frequently on Joe Biden’s overseas trips.
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“Ried in particular played a key role in working with the United Nations and rebuilding the refugee admissions program,” NBC reports.
During an LGBTQ employee resource group meeting at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in April, Ried, “urged participants to decide at the beginning of their careers to be their full selves,” according to the agency. “He explained that only part of that is the personal decision of when and how to come out in the workplace. He urged participants not to alter mannerisms at work or change the way they behave for a professional environment. He explained that people are at their most effective when they are being themselves.”
We’re not going to lie, we feel a little more secure knowing he’s at the table.
johncp56
any questions about a gay James bond after seeing this guy’s cred, i,m drooling those sun glasses stare and boyish looks
RyanMBecker
He doesn’t look like that photo in person. I’m not sure if it’s the glasses or just bad photography. Nor does he look boyish. He looks partly Middle Eastern or perhaps Indian/Pakistani. There are a few videos of him, e.g. the NBC report. I believe the link above had a photo of him without this ridiculous glasses.
jt1990
@RyanMBecker looks like the scarecrow that used to inhabit my garden. When the Republicans regain majority of congressional seats, this guy has a bright sunny future in a much different “field.” Beware crows and garden pests!
Now I’m missing the old farm again…
inbama
@jt1990
A rather ignorant and snotty statement given he worked in national security right through the Traitor Trump’s presidency and a corrupt Republican-controlled Senate.
Clearly he’s better at his job than you are at political trolling.
Diplomat
Being gay with a 5 star resume, how did he end up with those rediculously oversized sunglasses?
abfab
His eyeware is a tad too much.
dbmcvey
I think he looks pretty good, but also, the sunglasses they wear serve a purpose other than style.
Cam
Hi Diplomat. Still trying to convince people this screename isn’t one of your right winng troll screenames? Sweetie, you always come in trying to find ANYTHING to mock an out of the closet LGBTQ person over yet think you’re being subtle. As always, your troll game is sad and weak.
RyanMBecker
He doesn’t look anything like that photo in real person. I’m not sure if it’s the glasses or just bad photography. Nor does he look boyish. He looks partly Middle Eastern or perhaps Indian/Pakistani. There are a few videos of him, e.g. the NBC report. I believe the link above had a photo of him without this ridiculous glasses.
abfab
Is queer what he calls himself? Things are so complicated these days which is such a shame. The spokesman for the State Dept is gay and he is one smart cookie. Ned Price. I’m very proud of this administration.
dbmcvey
I think calling yourself “queer” makes it less complicated.
Cam
Hi jt1990, abfab, and Diplomat.
Sweetie, we all know that these are your troll screenames. Your troll game is sad and weak.
abfab
Cam, you’re losing your mind. I can assure you (I’m not sure how I can assure you) that I, abfab, is not one of the TROLLS you seem to be losing sleep over. Shift your focus, seek counseling, and please move on. I remain. Save yourself and stop it.
Diplomat
For those still trying to turn feces into cotton candy: “Queer” is the German derivative of the word “pervert”, meaning this guy is the new highly qualified executive pervert. I’m sure that’s not how he likes being described.
Time to own you’ll never desanitize the word “queer” as a proper and dignified descriptive label for any community. It’s not in the cards and it’s not an age thing. All ages hate that word. Is it time to give it up?
abfab
Who are you the great grand daughter of Adolf Hitler?
jt1990
In that case, there’s now at least two ‘queers’ in DC. The question is can this guy form coherent sentences without a notecard or an earpiece? Lmao
PS I’m well aware that there’s WAY more than just two ‘queers’ holding office in DC. Congress is infested with them to the point it’s like a cult of pedos
RyanMBecker
Well, you’ve clearly not been in modern academia. Both of my universities have a Queer Studies. For example, Harvard has Queer Studies in both the Arts (e.g. Queer Cinema) and Sciences (Queer Biology, Queer Medicine). Yes, the word “Queer” is used.
Fact is, no one gives a damn if you find it “sanitized.” The word is not censored by any TV station that I’m aware of. Academia and Culture have left you behind.
aussiechef
@ Diplomat.
A pretty quick google search of the etymology of the word queer dispelled any such association. (By the way. Odd to call yourself a diplomat when you are not being at all diplomatic)
And to preempt you highlighting the word perverse in the list of meanings. In this context it just means different.
AND. lastly. To state the obvious. How one person articulates their identity is not really your business is it? I identify as queer because it is usefully vague. You Identify as a diplomat. And well. Bully for you.
Diplomat
You obviously flunked homework…
queer (adj.) c. 1500, “strange, peculiar, odd, eccentric,” from Scottish, perhaps from Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer “oblique, off-center,” which is related to German quer “oblique, perverse, odd,” from Old High German twerh “oblique” (from PIE root *terkw- “to twist”).Mar 8, 2021
Major
Diplomat… it’s awfully queer of you to come on this site, Queerty, and try to tell them and us all how to define queer. Honestly, if you don’t like it, go back to your Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, Center for Family and Human Rights, or whatever homophobic rock of hate you crawled out from under. We own the word queer now. Get used to it, or get over it.
bachy
I keep seeing all these spectacularly accomplished, talented and experienced people emerging in Biden’s administration, and I can’t help wondering: where are all the firings?
When I think back on the heady days of Failure 45’s regime, he’d fired at least 700 of the (self-described) “very best people” by this point…
KetynPorta
When The little ‘ TRump made something similar you called him delusional but when Biden administration does is well qualified. Pathetic. How many you kiss the ass of Democrats just for crumbs. n addition, the LGBT community should move away from the Democratic Party. Since they confuse an act of kindness with hypocrisy like the Republicans confuse intelligence with be mean. Democratic leaders become millionaires, shamans, and philanthropy gurus to convince their masses to live in mediocrity .
Gays can evolve into society. Transsexual people are very intelligent and progressive they can change their gender to feel better, they could help democrat and republican idiots increase their intellectual and cerebral level.
Evolution could help them start making flying cars, houses on the moon or on Mars. But now all they show is worse leaders. In that list, the first place of the worst leaders is Biden, in second place Putin and Zelensky and in third place all the European leaders. Sad but true, the best, better, great president on earth is the president of Mexico, he has tried to get along with all countries (including threats from the United States) including Russia, he has tried to increase the sources of employment and the security of his country.
Unfortunately in South America it is not the same, Guillermo Lasso from Ecuador Is a corrupt right Wing or Gabriel Boric from Chile, Alberto Fernández from Argentina, all corrupt and impoverishing their country by increasing migration to the United States.
Thanks and bye bye Blackbird, like a song sing for Queen of soul, Aretha franklin
abfab
Ms. Franklin, (with a capital F) is turing over and over in her grave. She would hardly be appreciative of her inclusion in your drivel.
StuMi
KetynPorta, you ok?
gjg64
Did you just compare Putin and Zelensky? There must be something seriously wrong with you. One is a crypto-facist and the other is a hero on the scale of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Mandela.
And Biden may not be a “great” leader but he’s a good guy doing a good job.
dbmcvey
People, “Queer” has happened, you’re not going to stop it. Get over it.
Cam
The idea that an out of the closet LGBTQ person got hired ENRAGES the right wing troll with multiple names.
abfab
Cam, you’re losing your mind. I can assure you (I’m not sure how I can assure you) that I, abfab, is not one of the TROLLS you seem to be losing sleep over. Shift your focus, seek counseling, and please move on. I remain. Save yourself and stop it.
Norm
I’d blow him.
abfab
I seriously doubt he’d let you.
inbama
@abfab
Why such a vicious response to Norm’s fantasy?
Jealous queers like you just won’t let gay men be themselves.