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The Latvian Parliament this week elected Edgars Rkēvičs as the untry’s next print. Rkēvičs is openly gay.

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NEW LATVIAN PRINT BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EU HEAD OF STATE

Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the first openly gay head of state the European Unn. * first gay president latvia *

Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the European Unn's first openly gay head of state.

July 8 (UPI) -- Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the first openly gay head of state the European Unn. He me out as gay 2014 and has been a champn of LGBTQ rights. Rkēvičs, who announced 2014 that he is "proudly" homosexual, will be the first openly gay print the Baltic natns — all former Soviet republics where attus to sexual mori have been ls tolerant than Wtern Europe.

LATVIA'S RKēVIčS ELECTED PRINT, FIRST OPENLY GAY LEAR THE BALTICS

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Latvian Foreign Mister Edgars Rkēvičs has been elected print by the Baltic natn's parliament, and will be the first openly gay head of state elected the regn. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Latvia's new print Edgars Rkevics was sworn on Saturday (July 8) Riga, beg the first openly gay head of state of a European Unn natn." class="next-head * first gay president latvia *

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.

LATVIA SWEARS EU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc. He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village.

But never any gays.

LATVIA ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

“We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń. Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.

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