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
Contents:
- 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 *
Transportatn Department, the first openly gay U.
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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.
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 *
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. 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".
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 *
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. 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.
JOE BIN APPOTS AMERI’S FIRST EVER GAY CABET MISTER
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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. 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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
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.
TMP NAM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO A BET-LEVEL POSN
“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.
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.
AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?
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.
EAN GZBURG TO BEE ISRAEL'S THIRD GAY BET MISTER ON MONDAY
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. 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 PNEER WHO CHANGED GAY LIV
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.
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.
JOE BIN PICKS PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR TRANSPORT SECRETARY MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER US HISTORY
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. He was Bra's first openly gay MP, the first gay bet mister and is now the first polil figure to adm to beg HIV-posive, durg a reer which saw him bee one of the untry's key cisn-makers.
I'm the Labour MP for Islgton South and Fsbury, and I'm gay' was wh those words, his hands shakg as he spoke, that Smh fally publicly acknowledged the sexualy he had kept secret for a , and beme Bra's first MP to e out of the closet. His unparalleled honty earned him a five-mute standg was November 1984 and the then opposn spokman on Natnal Herage had accepted an vatn to addrs a prott meetg Rugby lled after the Conservative-n lol uncil had jt abandoned a policy which outlawed discrimatn on the grounds of New Labour won s first electn landsli 1997, Smh beme the first gay bet mister polil history when Tony Blair ma him Natnal Herage Secretary, although the so-lled 'Mistry of Fun' was renamed the Department of Culture, Media and Sport weeks was an advertent trailblazer.
There have been other gay members of the Cabet sce, such as Peter Manlson and Nick Brown, and his g out of the closet 1984 undoubtedly helped pave the way for the many other homosexual MPs to follow su, cludg Labour's Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant and the Conservative Alan Dunn, who is still the only Tory MP to have open clared his characteristic loyalty, he sisted Natnal Herage Secretary was 'a wonrful job' and 'the most enjoyable role to have ernment'. He is also a keen fan of morn art, and adorned his office at the Department of Culture wh patgs, sculpture, an etchgs and several was a ernor of the Sadler's Wells Theatre his central London nstuency om 1987-1997 and, sce beg sacked om the bet 2001, has also served on the board of the crilly-acclaimed Donmar Warehoe theatre Soho, been chairman of the nsumer panel at Classic FM rad statn and been a visg profsor culture and the creative dtri at the London last month Ken Livgstone, the pal's mayor, appoted him as the chair of the London Cultural Consortium wh a brief to implement a ten-year plan to cement even further London's stat as a leadg world cy for Watford 1951 to Gladys, a mathematics teacher, and Col, a Whehall civil servant, Smh moved to Edburgh when he was ten when his father took up a new post at the Sttish 1988 he met Dorian Jabri, who then worked for the teacher trag agency, at a rally about Sectn 28, the ntroversial legislatn banng the 'promotn' of gay liftyl to schoolchildren. Openly gay ternatnal policians, om left: Ana Brnabić, Xavier Bettel, Jens Spahn, Pete Buttigieg, Grant Robertson.
DAVID MUNLL, STLAND SECRETARY, OUT AS GAY
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.
JOE Bin has picked Pete Buttigieg for transport secretary, makg him the first openly gay bet member US history. Buttigieg, 38, would be the first openly gay person nfirmed by the Senate to a printial bet post. ”Cameron, who patted Munll on the back after prime mister’s qutns, weled the statement by Munll, who is be the first openly gay Conservative bet mister.
”Chris Smh, the former Labour MP, beme the first openly gay bet mister when he was appoted by Tony Blair as culture secretary 1997.
RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
Havg taken one of the most important cisns of my life and rolved to e out publicly as gay 2016, I jt want to get on wh , and now, jt like that, I have said . Havg taken one of the most important cisns of my life and rolved to e out publilly as gay 2016, I jt want to get on wh , and now, jt like that, I have said . Ruth Davidson, the lear of the Sttish Conservativ who told the Guardian 2014 about her own difficulty beg publicly gay bee she do not seek to talk about , said: “I’m really proud of David.
Havg high-profile people across all areas of society, om polics to sport, is ccial to creatg clive environments and helpg ensure the fair treatment of lbian, gay, bi and trans people at work, at home and their muni. “Role mols like David Munll also spire young lbian, gay, bi and trans people by lettg them know they are not alone and that they too n feel proud of their inty.