From the US’ Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and Serbia’s Ana Brnabić, there are more openly gay and lbian policians senr ernments around the globe than ever before
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- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET SECRETARY NFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
- PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
- JOHNSON HAS LGBT 'BLD SPOT', SAYS FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MISTER
- JOE BIN APPOTS AMERI’S FIRST EVER GAY CABET MISTER
- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
- TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
- AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?
- EAN GZBURG TO BEE ISRAEL'S THIRD GAY BET MISTER ON MONDAY
- THE PNEER WHO CHANGED GAY LIV
- JOE BIN PICKS PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR TRANSPORT SECRETARY MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER US HISTORY
- DAVID MUNLL, STLAND SECRETARY, OUT AS GAY
- RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET SECRETARY NFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
Pete Buttigieg was nfirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuday on an 86-13 vote to head the U.S. Transportatn Department, the first openly gay U.S. Cabet secretary nfirmed by lawmakers. * gay cabinet minister *
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Former 2020 printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.
PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.S. history to be nfirmed by the Senate. * gay cabinet minister *
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JOHNSON HAS LGBT 'BLD SPOT', SAYS FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MISTER
The UK's first openly gay bet mister, Lord Smh, urg the PM to diversify his top team. * gay cabinet minister *
Eric Fanng served as Secretary of the Army durg the Obama Admistratn, the first openly gay dividual to hold an armed service's top civilian posn. In the Tmp admistratn, Richard Grenell served as actg director of Natnal Intelligence, the first openly gay dividual to serve a Cabet-level posn an actg pacy, but his posn was not 's Cabet also clus the first female treasury secretary, first female director of Natnal Intelligence and first Black fense secretary.
Media ptn, Lord Chris Smh talks about the language he wnsed parliament the 1990sBoris Johnson has a "bld spot" when to appotg LGBT+ people to his top team, the UK's first openly gay bet mister has Chris Smh, who was a member of Tony Blair's first bet 1997, said was a "matter of great regret" that there were currently no out bet urged the PM to diversify his top team "the next year or two". A ernment spokman said Mr Johnson was mted to improvg UK parliament now has s hight ever proportn of lbian, gay and bisexual MPs, cludg two non-bet misters, although there are no openly transgenr members of parliament. Lord Smh, who was also the first openly gay male MP after g out 1984, said electg a trans member of parliament was a "glass ceilg" yet to be broken.
"In terms of lbians and gay men I thk the glass ceilg Parliament has well and tly been broken, " he said an terview to mark LGBT+ History month. " Chris Smh's reerImage source, PA MediaImage ptn, Smh promot Brish film at Cann 1999A leadg figure New Labour, who beme an MP for a North London nstuency 1983The followg year, at a gay rights rally Rugby, Warwickshire, he said: "My name is Chris Smh. I'm the Labour MP for Islgton South and Fsbury, and I'm gay"Smh's unscripted announcement - which earned a standg ovatn - was the first time a gay MP had chosen to e outLabour's Mreen Colquhoun - a pneerg femist whose ath at the age of 92 was announced earlier this month - had been open about her sexualy the 1970s, after the Daily Mail revealed she was a relatnship wh another womanIn 1997, Smh was appoted culture secretary, wh rponsibily for the Millennium Dome, the creative dtri and troducg ee mm entryHe later served as head of the Environment Agency, after steppg down as an MP 2005 and enterg the Hoe of LordsJte Greeng who was the first and, as thgs stand, only out lbian bet mister thks 's more of a "pipele" issue - that not as many LGBT+ MPs have risen through the ranks as had been Greeng served Thera May's Conservative bet, as tn secretary and equali mister, alongsi Secretary of State for Stland, David Munll, who also me out while office.
JOE BIN APPOTS AMERI’S FIRST EVER GAY CABET MISTER
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He urged Mr Johnson to "look to the greater talent that is out there and will clu some people who happen to be lbian or gay". RELATED | Mister Com Out as Gay, Vows to Vis Poland's 'LGBT-Free Zone'. Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, Joe Bin has appoted the first ever openly gay person, Pete Buttigieg to bet Secretary Uned Stat History.
Pete Buttigieg the history of Uned Stat be the first out of members of the gay mtee to get a senate nfirmatn for a bet posn US. Today, Print Bin issued a proclamatn affirmg June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pri Month, markg a time a time of hope, progrs, and promise for LGBTQ+ Amerins across the untry.
Signg and Leadg Implementatn of a Printial Memorandum on Advancg the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World. ” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. The Bin-Harris Admistratn clus barrier-breakg LGBTQ+ lears, cludg Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg, who is the first openly gay Cabet Secretary nfirmed by the U.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
Print Bin has assembled the most diverse Admistratn our Natn’s history, and is proud to serve alongsi the 14 percent of all appote who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer.
Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval on Tuday as transportatn secretary, the first out gay person to be nfirmed to a bet post. Unr Donald Tmp, Richard Grenell served as actg director of natnal telligence and is gay, but he did not have to face Senate nfirmatn as an actg director. Richard Grenell is the first openly gay person to hold a Cabet-level posn.
TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-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.
AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?
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. 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.
EAN GZBURG TO BEE ISRAEL'S THIRD GAY BET MISTER ON MONDAY
“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. Embassy Berl hosted a roundtable on the subject of crimalizg homosexualy July.
Ohana, who was jt appoted this untry’s first openly gay bet mister, was then a 24-year-old om a sert backwater makg his way Tel Aviv.
THE PNEER WHO CHANGED GAY LIV
Ohana’s role the last mpaign, and the new one, was regnized Wednday when, after jt one term parliament, he tapulted through the party ranks to make history by beg jtice mister Israel’s terim new Knset has five openly gay members, a rerd. Ohana, the first openly gay lawmaker on the right, is uncharted terrory. The Ohanas’ social world was nservative, and their dty cy was far om the sexually liberal bubble of Tel Aviv; there weren’t many openly gay people around Beersheba 1991.
Havg a gay son wasn’t somethg they’d planned.
They’ve been together for 14 years — whout gettg married, bee the state don’t regnize gay marriag performed Israel, and there’s no civil marriage at all.
JOE BIN PICKS PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR TRANSPORT SECRETARY MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER US HISTORY
They have two children, David and Elah, born 2015 to a surrogate mother Klamath Falls, Ore., bee surrogacy is not legal for gay men the fall of 2011, Mr. )All those prent at the meetg were openly gay and right-wg. “I’m Jewish, Israeli, Mizrahi, gay, a Likudnik, a secury hawk, a liberal and a believer the ee market, ” Mr.
”However he’s fed, the new mister’s proximy to power mak him the most fluential force for gay rights parliament, even if what he n actually achieve remas to be first bill after enterg polics, an attempt to extend hate-crime legislatn to transgenr people, was blocked by ultra-Orthodox lawmakers.
The same prsure led the ernment to exclu gay men like him om new surrogacy legislatn. Lawmakers om the Shas party, for example, which is ultra-Orthodox and Mizrahi, have said the past that gays should be treated like the avian flu and that they were rponsible for natural disasters like earthquak.
DAVID MUNLL, STLAND SECRETARY, OUT AS GAY
A Shas lawmaker, Rabbi Yigal Guetta, me unr fire 2017 for attendg his nephew’s gay weddg and was ultimately forced to rign — but he went unapologetilly to the weddg, a move impossible not long ago. Ean Gzburg: Former Mayor of Raanana & Israel’s first openly gay mayor.
RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
Gzburg, the former mayor of Ra’anana, was Israel’s first openly gay mayor. He will serve alongsi gay misters Itzik Shmuli, who left Labor, and Amir Ohana (Likud) morng’s bet meetg approved the Science and Technology portfol for Chili Tropper (Blue and Whe), the Higher Edutn Mistry for Yoav Galant (Likud), the Water Mistry for Yuval Stez (Likud) and the Social Equaly portfol for Michael Bon (Blue and Whe) Communitns portfol was held by Blue and Whe head Benny Gantz after he fired Yoaz Henl on December 16 when he left Blue and Whe for New Hope.