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
- LGBT RIGHTS BELAS - HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS BELAS
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
But homophobic Belas, except among the most privileged part of the LGBTQ muny, “queer” don’t mean anythg. The Department of Jtice rejected the applitn and the Supreme Court nfirmed the cisn, lg that there was no need to create such an anizatn as there’s no homophobia and that the nstutn protects all equally. The next year, the archect Mikhail Pischevsky, a gay man, was attacked Msk.
But a judge led that the crime had no homophobic motive, even though happened jt outsi the entrance to a gay nightclub. Even a popular Belasian rock band replaced the “OMOH” letters that are on the uniforms of special forc wh “HOMO” to sult them. A popular Belasian rock band replaced the “OMOH” letters that are on the uniforms of special forc wh “HOMO” to sult them | Siarhei Lkiec/AFP via Getty Imag.
Homophobia and transphobia rema wispread Belas. Homosexualy was crimalised Belas 1994, but anti-gay sentiment among many Belasians remas strong. The high level of homophobia the untry n be summarised by the famo words of print Lashenka 2012: ”It is better to be a dictator than gay.
LGBT RIGHTS BELAS - HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS BELAS
and monstratn of homosexualy to mors. In 2013, Rsia troduced a ntroversial “gay. 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!