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• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY SAN JOSE
• DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS
• GAY SAN SEBASTIAN
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

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

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!

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”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.

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Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St.

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St. “People feel embolned to discrimate or be vlent.”In July 2019, two gay men om St.

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Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry.”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Vcent Prime Mister Ralph Gonsalv was not returned.Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

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San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home. The Gayt Neighborhood of Them All.

The Hillcrt “Gayborhood“. Durg World War II, the cy’s gay bars were maly downtown, where they tered to sailors.

But thgs changed dramatilly the 1970s as Hillcrt attracted LGBTQ people who sought cheap hog and were willg to fix up Victorian hom, a classic se of “gaytrifitn. ” The Brass Rail, meanwhile, led the vanguard of gay and lbian bars flockg to the “gayborhood” and nearby neighborhoods — North Park, Banker’s Hill, and Universy Heights.

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“Gayborhoods allow gays and lbians to fd one another for iendship and fellowship, sex, datg, and love, spe the ascendance of datg apps, ” said Am Ghaziani, thor of the book “There Go the Gayborhood?, ” a 2017 terview. There has been a lot of talk about the cle of the classic “gayborhood” the Uned Stat. A Voice of San Diego analysis of 2010 cens data found that lol gay male upl were still highly ncentrated Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods.

Bar None – Gay Waterg Hol to Remember. Gay bars are fairly rare the days: Only about a dozen are still open the cy of San Diego. But our regn was home to many dozens of gay bars over the eight s sce World War II, acrdg to the 2018 KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History.

In 1957, a straight man named Lou Arko bought the bar, then hoed the later-molished Orphm Theater downtown, and weled a gay clientele at night after bspeople went home. Organizers of the Gay Center for Social Servic gather at s Goln Hill headquarters 1973. The Gay Center/LGBT Communy Center.

In 1972, a classified ad a newspaper announced that an anizatn lled the Gay Center for Social Servic “needs a home. Includg the word “gay” the name of an anizatn was a bold move 51 years ago. But 11 men and four men om the lol chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front were on a missn: They wanted to open one of the natn’s first lbian-and-gay muny centers.

But the “F Loop” is an important part of lol LGBTQ history bee was an important part of many lol gay men’s liv, pecially the years before onle personal ads and datg apps offered alternativ to bars. Many gay men didn’t know where else to go bee they were aaid to be seen at gay bars, pecially if they were married or the Navy, said Walt Meyer, a historian of San Diego’s LGBTQ past. Atks, who is the first openly gay person to lead the state Senate, reunted her experience growg up ral, southwtern Virgia.

Atks was joed by other gay lawmakers and LGBTQ+ muny activists, cludg Sen.

Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.