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:
- RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
- 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
- PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
- AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
- OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
* gay acting president *
The new job, a bet-level posn, mak Grenell the hight servg openly gay man to hold feral office Uned Stat history. “I know I speak for so many the LGBT muny who love and support this urageo appotment by Print Tmp, ” add Whe, who is gay.
Print Barack Obama never appoted an openly gay bet member, a source of bterns for LGBT activists at the time. Last December — jt hours before his boss was impeached by the Hoe of Reprentativ — Grenell led the Uned Natns nmng 69 untri that still outlaw homosexualy. “I want them to unrstand that you nnot put someone jail or kill someone simply for beg gay, ” Grenell told the assembled reprentativ, some om natns where LGBTQ people are targeted.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Do the evince prented here suggt the possibily of the existence of gay U.S. prints? Let's fd out if the mors are te, * gay acting president *
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.
TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
Pete Buttigieg said "statistilly, 's almost certa," the U.S. has had a gay print. Many historians disagree * gay acting president *
”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!
”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.
11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
Pete Buttigieg said gay men have already occupied the Wt Wg. Lookg at the printial facts, we'd have to agree. * gay acting president *
“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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
“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.
Richard Grenell is the first openly gay person to hold a Cabet-level posn.
Before beg actg director of natnal telligence, he led an effort to crimalize homosexualy untri where is illegal. In the year sce the effort started, one untry has crimalized homosexualy. Print Tmp beme the first print to name an openly gay person to a Cabet-level posn this week wh the appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
Grenell was already the hight-profile gay person an admistratn wh a mixed rerd on LGBTQ+ rights. As ambassador to Germany, he spearhead a global effort to end the crimalizatn of homosexualy nearly 70 untri where is still illegal. The iative followed the reported hangg of a gay man Iran, one of the Tmp admistratn’s adversari, and an op-ed for a German news publitn Grenell voiced a ll to arms.
“Beg gay is a ath sentence eight untri and crimalized 70 more. Only one untry, Botswana, has crimalized homosexualy sce then.
Tmp was the first Republin printial nomee to mentn gay rights on the mpaign trail.
AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
Embassy Berl hosted a roundtable on the subject of crimalizg homosexualy July. Buchanan, JFK, Clton, Obama, LBJ and more prumably gay U. )Consirg how much people love to speculate on who might and might not be gay — I thk ’s replaced baseball and oby as Ameri’s favore pastime — I was surprised I uldn’t fd a sgle list out about the potential closeted homosexualy of the U.
Prints, ranked om least likely to most likely gay.
Apologi to Elanor Roosevelt who would’ve ma the cut if I really need to fudge thgs… and also to Harry Tman, whose ployg of the Enola Gay was gog to be my emergency 11th pick if I uldn’t fd anyone better.
OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
” That sounds, tabloid speculatn and beg one of the most pro-gay rights prints ever isn’t enough to ph him any higher on the list than last. ) — which suggts he wasn’t gay.
That beg said, a book lled Jack and Lem dug ep to his lifelong iendship wh a gay man named Lem Billgs… and at least threw some iffs to the mix.
There was a sarstic New Yorker wre-up of why Thomas Jefferson might’ve been gay last year. )Sce the man who was clost to LBJ for 25 years turned out to be gay on the down low (he had a wife and six kids; they separated a few years after the sndal) — speculatn surfaced that maybe there was somethg between Johnson and Jenks.