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.
Contents:
- IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old the untry's first gay premier youngt person to hold the office. * gay ireland ceo *
DUBLIN — Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the once-stnchly Catholic untry's first gay premier and the youngt person to hold the office.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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"Enda Kenny's learship enabled me to bee an equal cizen my own untry two short years ago and to aspire to hold this office, an aspiratn I once thought was beyond my reach, at least if I chose to be myself, " Varadkar said reference to Ireland's 2015 vote to legalize gay marriage. 6 ln people that only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalized divorce two years later. 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.
CEOS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
”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!