As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
- GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY
- IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
- MIKE PENCE MEETS WH IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
- LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
- LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
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GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY
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When his nomatn was approved the Dáil by a vote of 57 to 50 (wh 45 abstentns) on June 14, Varadkar, at age 38, beme the youngt taoiseach Ireland’s history as well as s first openly gay taoiseach and the first to be a member of an ethnic mory. 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.
IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
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! ”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.
MIKE PENCE MEETS WH IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
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Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Leo Varadkar, one of the hight-rankg openly gay elected officials the world, has offered his rignatn as Ireland's prime mister, although he will ntue as a "retaker" until a new ernment is party, Fe Gael, had failed to w a majory parliamentary electns Febary 8, and no other party did eher, leadg to "polil adlock" Ireland, CNN reports.
When he beme prime mister 2017, he was not only the natn's first gay prime mister but s youngt one -- he was then 38 -- and the first one om an ethnic mory group; his father is Indian and his mother is Irish.
LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
He and his partner, Matthew Barrett, met wh notor homophobe Mike Pence 2019, and on the same vis he gave a speech at the Naval Observatory praisg diversy.
LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
A major effort is unrway to elect Senator David Norris, the Dubl-based polician, as the first openly gay print of Ireland.
Norris, 65, a former Try College Dubl lecturer who has led the mpaign for gay rights Ireland for a generatn, is a highly rpected figure both lerary and polil circl known equally for his Joycean expertise as his advocy of liberal .