7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• THE 7 GREAT WONRS OF THE WORLD (FOR GAY TRAVELLERS)
• PICTUR: 7 GAY HOLOT MEMORIALS AROUND THE WORLD
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!

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

Their ntributns to their rpective fields have dismantled systems of opprsn, advoted for LGBTQIA+ human rights, and allowed LGBTQIA+ people to exprs themselv more NkoliSimon Tseko Nkoli was an stmental figure the gay rights and anti-apartheid movements South Ai.

After advotg for gay rights while imprisoned, he found the Gay and Lbian Organizatn of Wwatersrand (GLOW) as a rponse to the racism and homophobia he had experienced durg his associatn wh the prev activist groups.

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.

THE 7 GREAT WONRS OF THE WORLD (FOR GAY TRAVELLERS)

”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. “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. One of a number of police raids that occurred the 1960s led to the famo Stonewall rts, a historic moment that is wily viewed as a talyst for legal change and the birth of morn LGBT+ se’s rebell history li even further back, as Stonewall Inn was once a speakeasy maskg as a tearoom durg prohibn, before beg burnt down s later and rebuilt by the Mafia as a gay bar the 60s.

Dpe receivg some protectn om blackmailg gangsters at this time, the bar’s gay muny was the regular target of police targetg, eventually rultg the famed rts that began on June 28th 1969 when many the queer muny fally fought back to rist arrt. Stonewall, New York Cy | Photo: Gay Globetrotter Photo: Mallm LightbodyThe ncept of channellg Tantra sexual energy is showsed on the walls of the Khajuraho templ, tellg stori of rnal pleasure and sexual transcennce perfectly prerved2. On each wall or rved stcture, erotic homosexual acts are picted betiful tail; tch a female-only y Kandariya Mahava temple or oral sex between two men Lakshmana temple, passg by var sculptur of elive genr.

PICTUR: 7 GAY HOLOT MEMORIALS AROUND THE WORLD

Between the perd of 630 to 570 BC, Lbos was home to the famed poet Sappho, a gay woman who wrote lyric poetry and performed while playg the lyre, fluencg the style and pavg the way for the morn romantic poets thereafter. Though much of her work has been lost to history, the lastg remnants are timels, immortalisg Greek gods homoerotic, Lbos (or, more accurately, Lvos) li as a World Herage Se for s picturque herage towns where a laid-back vibe remas surround by azure astle and priste beach.

Eros, the se of Sappho’s birth, is particularly popular among LGBT+ tourists, but explore further out to the island’s lser-known areas to fd tolerant villag and gay hangouts, proximy to the wild parti of Mykonos, another Greek gay haven to stop by. Honourg the thoands of homosexual men and women persecuted by the Nazi regime throughout WWII, the memorial stands as a simple remr of the jtic served agast gay people the 20th century and a symbol of what has changed learn of the history of homosexuals Berl is to realise that Nazism was opposed to the eedoms and rights already hard-gaed by the LGBT muny as early as the 1920s. One of the most liberal plac the world before the rise of Hler, Berl saw s well-tablished subculture of nightclubs, bars, theatre shows and publitns abptly move to hidg when the natn crimalised homosexualy 1935 and sent huge numbers of homosexuals to ncentratn mps.

Born the 1940s as the cy’s ma gay district when a number of discharged gay and bisexual US ary men settled the area, The Castro fast veloped to a liberal haven, homg queers and non-nformists om across the US. By the time Harvey Milk beme the cy’s first openly gay polician and ran for natnal office, The Castro was already firmly tablished, though still the target of discrimatn and subject to outdated laws which Milk spent his short life tryg to the polil assassatn of Milk, The Castro was h hard by the AIDS crisis, wh lol rints workg together to promote ttg and safer gay relatns.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD).

WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!

In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important. Equalx, a llaborative knowledge base for the global LGBT movement that maps the legaly of homosexualy, intifi a number of factors cludg eedom to change genr and to adopt – although hasn’t ranked untri or ci orr of bt to x om the Human Rights Campaign looks at municipal servic, law enforcement and the cy learship’s public posn on equaly across the US. Arguably the size of the LGBT populatn urban areas uld reflect the level of iendls, as “many LGBTI folk head to ci om ral areas bee of the promise of a eer, more tolerant life there, ” says André du Plsis, executive director of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.

San Francis has often been lled the “gay pal of the world” for s culture of tolerance and vibrant even when ci seem progrsive on the surface, the lived experience of members of the LGBT muny n tell a dramatilly different story. “For a certa social strata [sic], Cape Town and Johannburg are gay mecs, but at the same time black lbians livg poor areas there are alg wh vlence and targeted rape, ” says Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT rights programme at Human Rights Watch. And November, Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected as a US state Poland, one of Europe’s most Catholic and nservative untri, voters the small cy of Slupsk this year elected a gay atheist mayor, Robert Biedron.