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:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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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. ”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.
JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. * gay nbc news correspondents *
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.
“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.
“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. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports. " San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports. He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021.
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. In a special appearance on Today and, later, a blog on the show's webse, the 39-year-old NBC rrponnt me out as gay and announced that she and her girliend, fellow NBC journalist Stephanie Gosk, are expectg a dghter at the end of Augt. Several journalists on televisn have e out recent years to immense wav of support, leadg the charge at major works like ABC, NBC, and pri month, we're takg a look at some of the most proment anchors on daytime and primetime TV who intify as LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or otherwise) and have left a lastg impact wh their work and prence.
Somewhat ironilly, when I me out, was my dtry who kept reportg, 'Gay! She's gay! "© Getty ImagGMA's Sam ChampnSam ChampnAnother ABC stalwart, Sam is WABC-TV's chief meteorologist and has been part of the weather team for the work sce 1988, havg prevly reported for The Weather Channel and NBC's Today 61-year-old never officially me out as gay durg his daytime reer, but promently announced on the air back 2012 that he was engaged to then-boyiend Rubem Robierb, who he married later that year.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
"© Getty ImagCNN's Anrson CooperAnrson CooperThe leadg man of CNN, the anchor of Anrson Cooper 360 and 60 Mut rrponnt is nsired one of the most succsful and proment openly gay journalists on TV. A member of the Vanrbilt fay, he equently avoid discsg his personal life till 2012, when he allowed Andrew Sullivan to publish an email which he wrote: "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be. I've only ma the cisns as a gay person.
"I don't know what would be like to be dog this show as a straight person and make different edorial cisns, but I feel like gay rights issu get nsired like all others. "© Getty ImagFormer MSNBC host Thomas RobertsThomas RobertsThe host of DailyMailTV and former MSNBC anchor Thomas was one of the very first work TV journalists to have his g out story bee part of a natnwi now 50-year-old publicly clared that he was gay 2006 while speakg at the annual nventn of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists' Associatn, cg as the "biggt step" when me to his sexualy Exclive: DJ Eliad Cohen on why his Outer show will be so special for himIn 2011, a day after same-sex marriage was legalized New York, he revealed he was engaged to Patrick Abner (his partner sce 2000), and they were married the followg year.
"© Getty ImagNBC polil analyst Steve KornackiSteve KornackiThe face of electn verage the Uned Stat, NBC News polil mentator and data analyst Steve has tablished a name for himself both on-screen and off, thanks to his work as a wrer for publitns such as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New York Tim, The Daily Beast, and fact, was through one of his lumns that he ma his sexualy public knowledge, g out as gay 2011 Salon wh a personal op-ed, wrg: "My life n fally make sense to the people who matter to 9-1-1: Lone Star’s Ronen Rubste and Rafael Silva on TV weddg and the bety of queer love"This isn't the start of some brand-new life, " he said of his g out journey.