[edwinland]

I googled the text of the letter. Chrome confirms that the digital certificate for this website is registered to the New York Times:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6901-odni-lgbt-message/cfd91af0b1ed89e1a75e/optimized/full.pdf

But it still has a smell of inauthenticity.

[a fool in paradise]

Queer Pro Quo

Mr. Grenell has also suggested in meetings that foreign aid be used as an incentive to prod countries with bans on homosexuality to remove them, said Hadi Damien, the founder of Lebanon’s Beirut Pride group, who participated in the discussions Mr. Grenell held as ambassador to Germany. But Mr. Grenell has been careful to try to use aid as an incentive to alter laws, not a sanction against countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/intelligence-sharing-lgbt-laws.html