Luxembourg's gay PM says everyone has a duty to challenge hate speech | Rters

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• LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY
• LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PM SAYS EVERYONE HAS A DUTY TO CHALLENGE HATE SPEECH
• LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
• LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY
• LUXEMBOURG GETS FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS
• LUXEMBOURG’S TRAILBLAZG GAY PRIME MISTER XAVIER BETTEL ADMTED TO HOSPAL WH COVID
• LUXEMBOURG PM DISMISS HUNGARY'S LGBT LAW, SAYS ABC'S 'MORN FAY' DIDN'T MAKE HIM GAY

LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY

Image source, APImage ptn, PM Xavier Bettel, right, wav as he walks wh his partner Gthier Dtenay to the town hall for their marriageLuxembourg's prime mister has bee the first servg EU lear - and send lear the world - to marry a same-sex Bettel married Gthier Dtenay on Friday a private ceremony at the pal's town uple are among the first to benef after the untry changed s laws to allow gay marriag last unn after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner Bettel formed a ernment December 2013 to bee Luxembourg's first openly gay prime mister.

LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PM SAYS EVERYONE HAS A DUTY TO CHALLENGE HATE SPEECH

"Former Belgian Prime Mister El di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay natnal Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an enomic fom Kazakhstan, acrdg to AFP news agency. Certas dirigeants en raient l larm x yx, jdi 24 émotnnelleFace premier mistre Viktor Orban, Xavier Bettel n’a pas affirmé, me son homologue néerlandais Mark Rutte, que la Hongrie n’ava « pl rien à faire dans l’Unn ropéenne ».

LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW

Il n’a pas non pl parlé « honte », à la différence la présinte la Commissn Ursula von r Leyen, pour désigner la loi hongroise qui terd « la pornographie et l nten qui représentent la sexualé ou promvent la déviatn l’inté genre, le changement sexe et l’homosexualé » pour l mos 18 ans. La loi hongroise sur le genre vire ntentix ropéenXavier Bettel, qui a attendu 2008 avant révéler son homosexualé sur l ons d’une rad, a plutôt évoqué son adolcence. « M’accepter me gay a été, pour moi, la chose la pl difficile.

« Comme mélanger pédophilie, pornographie et homosexualé. » Le regard fiché dans celui Viktor Orban, il lui a lancé: « L’homosexualé, ce n’t pas un choix: tu nais me cela » pouvoir puis sept ans et mi, le Luxembourgeois a été en 2015 le premier dirigeant l’Unn ropéenne à se marier avec une personne même sexe. Nouvelle génératnP dirigeants ropéens ont jque-là dévoilé lr homosexualé.

Pl récemment en 2017, la Serbe Ana Brnabic, ouvertement homosexuelle, a également été vtie présinte du gouvernement.

LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY

L’homosexualé Xavier Bettel n’a jamais nstué un e à son ascensn en polique, dans un Luxembourg toujours très tholique où la séparatn l’Église et l’État n’t tervenue qu’en 2016. Sans se nsidérer me un « ant la e homosexuelle », il lui t déjà arrivé manifter son désacrd profond, me lorsqu’il a boytté en 2019 la réceptn d’adi l’ambassadrice d’Israël, en signe prottatn ntre l propos d’un mistre israélien qui soutena l « thérapi nversn » visant à « guérir » l homosexuels.

LUXEMBOURG GETS FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

« Je ne vois pas où t le problème », a-t-il répondu, diquant que la loi ne porta pas sur l homosexuels mais sur la « façon dont l parents vlent faire l’édutn sexuelle lrs enfants » premier mistre hongrois puis 2010 time ntraire avoir défendu l dros s homosexuels, urs sa rrière polique.

« So le régime muniste, l’homosexualé éta punie et je me suis battu pour lr liberté et lr dro », a-t-il rétorqué. Mais il a cette fois trouvé p soutien, en hors s homologu polonais et slovène.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD

Bettel, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, will marry Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay weddgs. Former Belgian PM El di Rupo was the first openly gay man to lead a EU untry.

I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, ” he told Belgium’s RTBF public televisn. NEW YORK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Luxembourg’s Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told the Uned Natns on Tuday that as an openly gay polician he uld not accept hate speech and everyone had a duty to challenge PHOTO: Luxembourg's Prime Mister Xavier Bettel speaks durg the 2019 Uned Natns Climate Actn Summ at U.

By an openly gay world lear on LGBT+ rights, Bettel lled on world lears to stop eedom of exprsn om leadg to harm. ”Bettel, 46, who was re-elected for a send term 2018, is one of three openly gay and lbian lears the world along wh Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar and Serbia’s Prime Mister Ana married his civil partner 2015, beg the first servg lear the European Unn to wed someone of the same sex.

FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS

A study released earlier this year by rearchers at the Hungarian Amy of Scienc, who analyzed rults om a European Social Survey, found homophobia had risen European untri that did not legally regnize same-sex acceptance of gay and lbian people jumped stat where they n marry between 2002 and 2016, untri such as Rsia, Bulgaria, Lhuania, Poland and Ukrae all saw acceptance of gay and lbian people crease over that said homophobia was a “personal choice” that had to be fought agast and beg gay was not “a choice” Febary he nonted Arab lears of untri that have the ath penalty for gay sex at a summ between the European Unn and the Arab the 22 Arab League members, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and Sudan impose the ath penalty for gay sex. BRUSSELS, June 24 (Rters) - Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told his Hungarian unterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday that Budapt was beg discrimatory and stigmatizg wh s new law banng om schools materials emed to promote homosexualy.

Dpe cricism om rights groups and polil opposn Hungary, Orban said on Thursday ahead of talks wh his EU peers Bssels that the new bill, which bans the distributn schools of material seen as promotg homosexualy or genr change, was already, who is an advote of gay rights and sometim travels wh his hband to official state viss, said he would challenge Orban over the ntent law durg their meetg. "To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people - 's not realisg that beg gay is not a choice, " Bettel said. I am gog to tell him that what he is dog his untry is tolerant and that beg gay is not a choice.

LUXEMBOURG’S TRAILBLAZG GAY PRIME MISTER XAVIER BETTEL ADMTED TO HOSPAL WH COVID

"The most difficult thg for me was to accept myself when I realised that I was love wh a person of my sex, was how to say to my parents, how to say to my fay, " he said, strsg that young homosexuals are prone to suici if they fail to embrace who they are, e out and live their liv. Conflatg homosexualy wh paedophilia or pornography was wrong, as was stigmatizg people, he said, addg tongue--cheek that himself beg gay did not pose any danger to anyone.

"Bettel also took a jibe at Orban remdg of Jozsef Szajer, who ed to be a proment voice of Hungary's lg Fisz party the European Parliament and played an stmental role rewrg Hungary's nstutn a more nservative he rigned last December over attendg Bssels a gay sex party, which got bted for vlatg COVID-19 rtrictns and which Szajer tried to pe by clamberg down a gutter before beg ught by the police. Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel married his gay partner on Friday, beg the first European Unn lear to enter to a same-sex unn a symbol of growg social change across the, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, tied the knot wh Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay prime mister, wearg a navy blue su, and his partner, drsed a dark grey su, held hands as they arrived for the low key ceremony at the Luxembourg town hall, where around 100 well-wishers appld them. "Thank you to all Luxembourgers, " Bettel said after the ceremony, as the crowd threw rice and nfetti over the happy well as beg the first lear the 28-natn EU to wed a gay partner, Bettel is only the send the world after Iceland's prime mister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her wrer partner 2010.

LUXEMBOURG PM DISMISS HUNGARY'S LGBT LAW, SAYS ABC'S 'MORN FAY' DIDN'T MAKE HIM GAY

That is a msage sent at a time when homophobia is on the rise Europe, " add the 39-year-old Michel.

I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, " he told Belgium's RTBF public televisn.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The gay prime mister of Luxembourg ed the dais of the European Unn’s parliament Wednday to stand up for LGBTQ rights the 27-natn bloc and to chastise member state Hungary, which wants to curtail discsns of homosexualy schools and the media.

“If there’s anyone this hoe who thks that you’ve bee a homosexual by watchg the televisn or listeng to a song, then you’ve not unrstood anythg, ” Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told legislators at the European Parliament’s plenary ssn Strasbourg, France.

“The most difficult (thg) for a homosexual is to accept themselv. A 2021 law prohibed sharg ntent on homosexualy or genr transn films, advertisements and other media targetg people unr 18.