As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoptn. * french gay history *
The legalizatn of homosexual acts between two nsentg adults me as part of the French Penal Co of 1791, durg the French Revolutn. England didn't pass the Sexual Offenc Bill until 1967, and even then, homosexualy only beme legal when "private, " between two men over the age of 21. The bill did not extend to Stland or some other parts of the UK, and was not ammend to fully legalize homosexualy until crimalized homosexualy 1979, and Italy 1887.
(Rters) - Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan’s plan to legalize gay marriage and is a timele on marriage and the rights of homosexuals France.
1791 - Followg the French Revolutn, the penal is amend to crimalize homosexual acts. 1995 - Sat Nazaire be the first cy to allow homosexuals to register as ncub, a legal ncept allowg limed shared rights for unmarried upl livg together.
DAN CALLWOOD, Anxiety and Dire France's Gay Pornographic Film Boom, 1974-1983, Journal of the History of Sexualy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (JANUARY 2017), pp. 26-52 * french gay history *
2001 - Bertrand Delanoe, a Socialist who was one of the first French policians to publicly clare his homosexualy, is elected mayor of Paris. Sce then, an openly gay man and an openly bisexual man serve as culture misters nservative natnal ernments.
It matas that extendg those rights to gay upl would vlate the Uned Natns Conventn on the Rights of the Child, which France has signed.
2010 - Origally seen as a kd of gay unn, the PACS gradually morphs to “marriage le” for heterosexuals. 2012 - Franis Hollan clus gay marriage as one of 60 mpaign promis but do not figure highly bat for the printial electn May. In November, the bet approv a draft law allowg same-sex marriage wh adoptn rights that will be prented to parliament on January 292013 - On January 13, Catholics, nservativ, Mlims, evangelils and homosexuals opposed to same-sex marriage march Paris the first major street prott agast Print Franis Hollan.