That’s exactly how I understood the directive. I suspect this is fake news bullsh!t.
It is. Here’s one report on it:
“State Department policy dictates that embassies must acquire permission to fly the pride flag on their flagpoles. No embassy that has made the request has been granted permission as of yet, according to the NBC report, though they are allowed to display the flag inside and other places.”
Got that from Business Insider. I can’t locate the policy itself: everything is third-hand and starts at a liberal source and most lead back to the New York Times.