Meet the world's first openly gay print

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY
• NEW LATVIAN PRINT BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EU HEAD OF STATE
• LATVIA SWEARS EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• LATVIA SWEARS EU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• LATVIA ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• LGBTQ GROUPS CELEBRATE LATVIA ELECTG E.U.’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• LATVIA’S FOREIGN MISTER EDGARS RKEVICS SWORN AS EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• EDGARS RKEVICS: EUROPEAN UNN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE SWORN AS LATVIA'S PRINT
• MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

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.

EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY

”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.

NEW LATVIAN PRINT BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EU HEAD 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. “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.

Photographer: Gts Ivkans/AFP/Getty ImagLatvia’s parliament elected long-time Foreign Mister Edgars Rkevics as the Baltic natn’s new print, makg him the European Unn’s first openly gay head of state.

LATVIA SWEARS EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

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LATVIA SWEARS EU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the European Unn's first openly gay head of state. July 8 (UPI) -- Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the first openly gay head of state the European Unn.

LATVIA ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

He me out as gay 2014 and has been a champn of LGBTQ rights. Edgars Rkēvičs has bee Latvia’s – and the EU’s – first openly gay head of state. Latvia has bee the first EU natn wh an openly gay head of state after swearg Edgars Rkēvičs.

LGBTQ GROUPS CELEBRATE LATVIA ELECTG E.U.’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

The only other openly gay head of state ever to be elected was Paolo Ronlli, the pta regent of San Maro, a non-EU state, om April to October 2022. Belgian polician El Di Rupo beme the EU’s first openly gay head of ernment after beg elected prime mister 2011.

LATVIA’S FOREIGN MISTER EDGARS RKEVICS SWORN AS EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

Rkēvičs me out as gay November 2014 while mister of foreign affairs, postg on Twter: “I proudly announce I am gay … Good luck all of you.

Rkevics was Foreign Mister 2014, when he clared a tweet: “I proudly announce I am gay". The openly gay lear has bee a well-known figure the LGBTQ movement Poland, even as the lg party has gaed ternatnal headl for s anti-LGBTQ stanc. He said he did not know of a sgle gay person his village.

But never any gays. “We are the most homophobic untry on the map of Europe the EU, ” said Biedroń.

EDGARS RKEVICS: EUROPEAN UNN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE SWORN AS LATVIA'S PRINT

Forty-seven percent said “homosexualy should not be accepted by society, ” when the Pew Rearch Center nducted a poll, between 2015 and 2016.

Dpe all this, Biedroń, cid to enter activism, -foundg the Campaign Agast Homophobia 2001. Bis I knew I’m the ‘only gay the village. In 2011, he beme the first openly gay member the Sejm, the lower Hoe of the Polish Parliament.

MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

In 2014, he beme the first openly gay mayor the untry, takg the top learship role the northwt cy of Słupsk. This electn sent Biedroń to the European Parliament, as the first openly gay member om Poland. Lawmakers Latvia have chosen Foreign Mister Edgars Rkevics as the untry’s new print, makg him the first openly gay head of state the European 49-year-old’s electn — which was falized as the Latvian pal of Riga was kickg off Pri celebratns — was celebrated by gay rights activists across Europe.