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

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• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• UK PRIME MISTER APOLOGIZ FOR TREATMENT OF GAY VETERANS, LLS LGBTQ+ SERVICE BAN AN 'APPALLG FAILURE'
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• U.S. DIPLOMAT STICKS IT TO ANTI-GAY PRIME MISTER—WH A HUGE PRI PARTY
• ANA BRNABIć: 'I DO NOT WANT TO BE BRAND SERBIA'S GAY PM'
• SERBIA GETS S FIRST FEMALE – AND GAY – PRIME MISTER
• SERBIA APPOTS FIRST GAY AND FEMALE PRIME MISTER
• ___ BRNABIC, FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER OF SERBIA - DAILY THEMED CROSSWORD
• SERBIA'S OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, PARTNER WELE BABY BOY
• SERBIA’S FIRST GAY PREMIER GETS SEND TERM AFTER LANDSLI W
• SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• UK PRIME MISTER APOLOGIZ FOR TREATMENT OF GAY VETERANS, LLS LGBTQ+ SERVICE BAN AN 'APPALLG FAILURE'

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!

UK PRIME MISTER APOLOGIZ FOR TREATMENT OF GAY VETERANS, LLS LGBTQ+ SERVICE BAN AN 'APPALLG FAILURE'

”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.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

"The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.

"As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, " Sunak told Parliament. It documented the effects of what lled "an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

U.S. DIPLOMAT STICKS IT TO ANTI-GAY PRIME MISTER—WH A HUGE PRI PARTY

Veterans' ttimoni "give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, " the report said.

Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant "a huge amount" to hear the ernment HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, " Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy. ”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament.

ANA BRNABIć: 'I DO NOT WANT TO BE BRAND SERBIA'S GAY PM'

It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

SERBIA GETS S FIRST FEMALE – AND GAY – PRIME MISTER

Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc.

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

SERBIA APPOTS FIRST GAY AND FEMALE PRIME MISTER

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, " Sunak told Parliament.

___ BRNABIC, FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER OF SERBIA - DAILY THEMED CROSSWORD

Veterans' ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, " Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

Sce his arrival Budapt last year, the gay human rights lawyer has been relentlsly cricized by the untry’s state-ntrolled media for what they perceive as his provotive propagandizg of progrsive Wtern valu to a people who do not share weekend plans seem likely to spark another round of vective. The retail cha said was dog so pliance wh a 2021 so-lled “child protectn” law which banned the “display and promotn of homosexualy” to children unr the age of 18. Openly gay ternatnal policians, om left: Ana Brnabić, Xavier Bettel, Jens Spahn, Pete Buttigieg, Grant Robertson.

5 of the most powerful LGBT policians the world: om Joe Bin’s bet pick Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and the gay prime misters of Serbia and Luxembourg. The prime misters of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, and New Zealand’s puty to Jacda Arrn, Grant Robertson, are all part of a wave of openly gay policians ernment Published: 10:25am, 22 Jan, 2021 Updated: 10:25am, 22 Jan, 2021 Openly gay ternatnal policians, om left: Ana Brnabić, Xavier Bettel, Jens Spahn, Pete Buttigieg, Grant Robertson.

SERBIA'S OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, PARTNER WELE BABY BOY

The appotment of Ana Brnabić as Serbia’s prime mister aged 41 was acpanied by the sound of glass ceilgs beg shattered all around only is she the first woman to take on the role, Brnabić is gay and has achieved high office whout beg a member of a polil her first terview to a foreign newspaper after a month the job, she said: “Serbia is changg and changg fast, and if you will, I am part of that change, but I do not want to be brand ‘Serbia’s gay PM’. Although as a gay Serbian cizen she nnot marry, Brnabić said she did not plan to ph LGBT legal reforms at this stage. “I don’t thk Serbia is that homophobic.

SERBIA’S FIRST GAY PREMIER GETS SEND TERM AFTER LANDSLI W

A gay woman has been appoted prime mister of Serbia a double first for the EU-ndidate Brnabić, 41, a graduate of the Universy of Hull England, is the Balkan natn’s first gay PM and first female PM. Brnabić’s appotment, which the same week that Leo Varadkar was formally elected as Ireland’s first gay PM, is all the more remarkable given that vilent homophobia is still wispread the Serbian print, Aleksandar Vučić, announced on Thursday eveng that he was givg Brnabić, a non-party technocrat, the mandate to form a new ernment, scribg her as “hard-workg, [wh] profsnal and personal quali”, the Serbian news agency B92 reported. Brnabić entered polics jt last year when she beme Serbia’s first openly gay mister, headg the mistry for public admistratn and lol self-ernment.

She studied the US and graduated Hull wh a marketg MBA 2001, before returng to Serbia to work the wd power dtry and then for US-fund velopment Miletić, a civil rights activist and Belgra Pri aniser, said: “Even some wtern untri would be big news and a posive signal if a gay or lbian person beme prime mister or mister. It is even more important for a untry where 65% believe that homosexualy is an illns and 78% thk that homosexualy should not be exprsed outsi hom.

SERBIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER ATTENDS BELGRA PRI MARCH

Vlence and discrimatn are wispread and reurse to jtice after homophobic attacks limed by social stigma.

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

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.

Strger / RtersForty-one-year-old Ana Brnabić is set to bee both the first gay and first female prime mister of Serbia followg her nomatn by the natn’s print, Aleksandar Vučić, on Thursday eveng. Although Brnabić is nonpartisan, she is nsired loyal to Vučić nomatn, which is unprecented even by ternatnal standards, is pecially noteworthy Serbia, a untry known for s wispread homophobia. Homosexualy was officially nsired an illns Serbia prr to 2008, when the Serbian Medil Society cid to undo the classifitn rponse to mountg public prsure.

UK PRIME MISTER APOLOGIZ FOR TREATMENT OF GAY VETERANS, LLS LGBTQ+ SERVICE BAN AN 'APPALLG FAILURE'

By 2010, rearch om the Gay Straight Alliance dited that 67 percent of Serbians still nsired homosexualy an illns, while 53 percent believed that state stutns should actively supprs homosexualy.

Although same-sex relatnships have been legal Serbia sce 1994, same-sex upl are nied the same cizenship rights and legal protectns as heterosexual Serbia’s Christian Orthodox and ultra-natnalist groups fundamentally opposed to homosexualy, anti-gay sentiment the natn has equently translated to vlent actn.

In 2001, an annual gay pri para Belgra rulted vlent clash between police officers and anti-gay rters, leavg 78 officers and 17 civilians jured. As late as 2010, anti-gay rters ntued to wreak havoc on the para, throwg petrol bombs and ston at police officers and even settg the office of the Democratic Party on print’s announcement on Thursday ma no mentn of this vlent history, stead choosg to highlight Brnabić’s “profsnal skills and personal quali, ” cludg her hard-workg nature.