Pence swears in Trump’s most prominent openly gay official.

Vice President Mike Pence swears in Richard Grenell as Ambassador to Germany. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The Trump administration’s highest-profile openly gay official, Richard ‘Ric’ Grenell, was sworn in Thursday as the new U.S. ambassador to Germany by Vice President Mike Pence — controversial in the LGBT community for his conservative stance on gay rights.

“With Ambassador Grenell leading our diplomatic mission to Germany…