Iceland Elects World's First Openly Gay Lear - Queerty

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• ICELAND ELECTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LEAR
• FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER TAK OFFICE ICELAND
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY ICELAND
• GENR EQUALY ICELANDICELAND IS A PROGRSIVE NORDIC WELFARE STATE. GENR EQUALY LAWS EXIST WH EXTEND MATERNY AND PATERNY LEAVE AND AFFORDABLE CHILDRE THAT PROMOTE SOCIETAL BALANCE.ICELAND PRRIZ EQUALY AND PROMOT PARENTS SHARG THEIR PARENTAL LEAVE. CHILDRE IS SUBSIDIZED BY THE ERNMENT AND AVAILABLE TO ALL CHILDREN OM THE AGE OF ONE. THE ST IS RCED AT THE AGE OF TWO WHEN CHILDREN ATTEND KRGARTEN/PRCHOOL (LEIKSKóLI) AND ARE EE AFTER THE AGE OF SIX WHEN MOST CHILDREN ENTER FIRST GRA (GNNSKóLI). EDUTN IS EE ICELAND, UP TO THE UNIVERSY LEVEL (EXCLUDG REGISTRATN STS). THERE ARE ALSO PRIVATE TNAL OPTNS THAT CHARGE TUN.ACRDG TO THE WORLD ENOMIC FOM, ICELAND HAS BEEN A GLOBAL LEAR  GENR EQUALY SCE 2009. WHILE THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, ICELAND HAS MA TREMENDO STRIS TO LEVEL THE WAGE GAP AND MAKE THE PROCS MORE TRANSPARENT. IN 2018, THE EQUAL PAY CERTIFITN WAS STUTED FOR WAGE TRANSPARENCY UNR THE GENR EQUALY ACT. WORKPLAC WH MORE THAN 25 EMPLOYE ARE REQUIRED TO PROVE THAT THEY PAY THEIR EMPLOYE THE SAME WAGE FOR THE SAME JOB WHOUT DISCRIMATG BASED ON SEX OR FACE PENALTI. THE LAW WILL BE FULLY FORCE 2022. WE BELIEVE THIS LEGISLATN IS UNIQUE WORLDWI, AND A STEP TOWARD FULL EQUALY THE WORKPLACE.GAY RIGHTS
• IN ICELAND, EVERYONE IS GAY!
• THE BEST ICELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ICELAND

ICELAND ELECTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LEAR

” said Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, the 66 year-old newly elected Prime Mister of Iceland, who jt happens to be the world’s first openly gay natnal elected lear. Her electn over the weekend is not jt a victory for gays and lbians, but also for women– she is the natn’s first female prime mister and Icelandic newspapers are proudly potg out that wh this electn, which sent more women to the Althg than ever before, the natn now ranks 4th the world for female participatn ernment. But what challeng face the world’s first openly gay elected lear?

FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER TAK OFFICE ICELAND

On the one hand, Iceland is a fairly liberal, tolerant untry when to homosexualy.

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

In so many way, Iceland se self regrsg back to s own recent past, but electg an openly-gay woman to serve as their lear, they are showg the world that Iceland n still look to the future. A new center-left ernment took office crisis-h Iceland Sunday, head by the untry's first openly gay natnal Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir and her Cabet were officially appoted by the head of state, Print Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, after a tumultuo week that saw Iceland's prev nservative ernment llapse over the untry's enomic meltdown. Electns to be held April 25Sigurdardottir also is the first openly gay natnal lear of morn tim, apart om Per-Kristian Foss, a Norwegian polician who briefly served as his untry's prime mister new ernment is a aln of Sigurdardottir's Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green movement, and will hold office until electns April new Cabet has 10 posts, down om 12, wh four gog to each of the aln partners and nonpolil experts servg as misters of bs and Green lear Stegrimur Sigfson is the new fance mister, signalg an enomic swerve to the left after years of nservative le.

GAY ICELAND

She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic. Meet Leo, the openly gay, half-Indian Taoiseach (Prime Mister) of Ireland. El Di Rupo was the Prime Mister of Belgium, and the first openly gay man (and the send LGBT person) to lead a untry.

One of the most strikg moments was when a journalist a media pack chasg him down the street cried, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world.

GENR EQUALY ICELANDICELAND IS A PROGRSIVE NORDIC WELFARE STATE. GENR EQUALY LAWS EXIST WH EXTEND MATERNY AND PATERNY LEAVE AND AFFORDABLE CHILDRE THAT PROMOTE SOCIETAL BALANCE.ICELAND PRRIZ EQUALY AND PROMOT PARENTS SHARG THEIR PARENTAL LEAVE. CHILDRE IS SUBSIDIZED BY THE ERNMENT AND AVAILABLE TO ALL CHILDREN OM THE AGE OF ONE. THE ST IS RCED AT THE AGE OF TWO WHEN CHILDREN ATTEND KRGARTEN/PRCHOOL (LEIKSKóLI) AND ARE EE AFTER THE AGE OF SIX WHEN MOST CHILDREN ENTER FIRST GRA (GNNSKóLI). EDUTN IS EE ICELAND, UP TO THE UNIVERSY LEVEL (EXCLUDG REGISTRATN STS). THERE ARE ALSO PRIVATE TNAL OPTNS THAT CHARGE TUN.ACRDG TO THE WORLD ENOMIC FOM, ICELAND HAS BEEN A GLOBAL LEAR  GENR EQUALY SCE 2009. WHILE THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, ICELAND HAS MA TREMENDO STRIS TO LEVEL THE WAGE GAP AND MAKE THE PROCS MORE TRANSPARENT. IN 2018, THE EQUAL PAY CERTIFITN WAS STUTED FOR WAGE TRANSPARENCY UNR THE GENR EQUALY ACT. WORKPLAC WH MORE THAN 25 EMPLOYE ARE REQUIRED TO PROVE THAT THEY PAY THEIR EMPLOYE THE SAME WAGE FOR THE SAME JOB WHOUT DISCRIMATG BASED ON SEX OR FACE PENALTI. THE LAW WILL BE FULLY FORCE 2022. WE BELIEVE THIS LEGISLATN IS UNIQUE WORLDWI, AND A STEP TOWARD FULL EQUALY THE WORKPLACE.GAY RIGHTS

As one would expect, most gay world lears have belonged to progrsive parti and pursued progrsive agendas, mirrorg the beliefs of the people that elected them. To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial.

That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn. The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis.

But history also remembers Ai of Han for his effive homosexualy. The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince. Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter.

IN ICELAND, EVERYONE IS GAY!

Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187.

He would produce no heirs of his own and was plagued by mors of homosexualy his lifetime. The grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed.

THE BEST ICELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ICELAND

Historians say the mother once gave her son a list of reported gay people and said that they should be burned. Many historians believe the men were engaged a homosexual relatnship, not unmon the era. It was briefly a gay old time the Whe Hoe wh Lln succeedg Buchanan office.

Likely Ameri's first gay print, Democrat Jam Buchanan won the electn of 1856 -- rallyg support om the slaveholdg stat the origal Southern Strategy. Oh, and he was openly gay. In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant).