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

Contents:

• SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE
• GOVERNMENT FUNDG, GAY MARRIAGE AMONG ISSU FACG RETURNG SENATE
• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

SENATE CLEARS HURDLE TO MOVE GAY MARRIAGE BILL TOWARD FAL PASSAGE

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said. 5, 2022Follow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights.

GOVERNMENT FUNDG, GAY MARRIAGE AMONG ISSU FACG RETURNG SENATE

Nightclub his state, which five people were killed, unrsred the importance of fendg the rights of gay Amerins. Lee tried and failed to attach chang to the bill that he said would more strongly protect relig Colls phed back, notg that the bill had received strong backg om fah-based groups, cludg the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, which historilly has aggrsively opposed gay rights. Same-sex upl Nepal said on Friday they were preparg to register their marriag after the Supreme Court issued a temporary orr clearg the way for gay marriage for the first time the largely nservative untry.

Along wh the grapplg over ernment fundg, Senate Majory Lear Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has vowed to brg a bill makg gay marriage legal natnwi to the floor but acknowledged last month that legislatn may be put on the back burner orr for Democrats to ph through Bin’s judicial nomatns. Wa on June 24 and Jtice Clarence Thomas issued a ncurrg opn qutng precent for upholdg gay marriage. LGBT activists and supporters held a rally outsi the US Supreme Court over a feral anti-discrimatn law that prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex verg gay and transgenr employe.

Tammy Baldw, the Democratic -sponsor, have lobbied for Republin support and have worked to ensure difyg gay marriage will not affect relig liberty protectns. He observed if LGBTQ+ folks "want to spend their liv together, a homosexual uple, natns have the possibily civilly to support them, to give them safety wh regards to herance and health" regardls of the church's posn.

THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

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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.

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

”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!

”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.