7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

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• OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
• HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• NORWAY WILL PRRISE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR REFUGE

OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED

Oslo’s annual Pri para was nceled on Saturday followg a adly shootg at a gay bar that Norwegian police are vtigatg as a possible terrorist attack. Two people were killed and eight others taken to hospal after the shootg near the London Pub, which scrib self on s webse as “the largt gay and lbian venue Oslo.

SummaryGunman kills two, jur 21Revellers hid basement of Oslo barOfficial Pri para ncelled after tragedyTerrorism threat asssment raised to hight levelPri rabow 'loured black', ernment mister saysOSLO, June 25 (Rters) - Terrified revellers at a gay bar Oslo hid a basement and sperately lled loved on as a gunman went on the rampage, killg two people and jurg 21 on the day the cy was due to celebrate s annual Pri para. [1/5]People brg flowers and rabow flags to pay tribute to the victims as they take part a spontaneo Pri para, followg a shootg at the London Pub, a popular gay bar and nightclub, after the official event was ncelled, Oslo, Norway, June 25, 2022. Norwegian secury thori raised the untry's terrorism threat asssment to s hight level followg the attack, which 21 people were also wound, 10 of them police, who are not normally armed, will rry guns until further notice, major events the pal went ahead as planned on Saturday, police and anisers said, cludg a large outdoor mic ftival and a soccer match between the women's teams of Norway and New shootg took place jt months after Norway marked 50 years sce the aboln of a law that crimalised gay Nordic natn of 5.

HORROR ON OSLO PRI DAY AS GUNMAN GO ON ADLY RAMPAGE AT GAY BAR

The untry is proud of s many openly gay and lbian policians and celebri sports and entertament. 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the liftg of the ban on homosexualy Norway. 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.

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.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

“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.

“This is not a legal battle Europe, ” says Cianán Rsell, a senr policy officer at ILGA-Europe, the European arm of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.

NORWAY WILL PRRISE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR REFUGE

Participants of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) "Euro Pri" para march through Oslo. Norway is to prrise refuge who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, the ernment has refuge will, for the first time, be given prry both as a group and dividuals when Norway selects for prev guil, vulnerable women and children were given new l will only apply for the transfer of refuge om one asylum untry to another for permanent rettlement. "In nearly 70 untri, homosexualy is crimal and those who vlate genr and sexualy norms may be subject to persecutn and discrimatn their home untry".

I currently like Bra, Essex, which is filled wh dodgy, sexist, racist, homophobic chavs so I'm also on guard here. So say young people Trondheim’s gay i, and get support om a genr rearcher. Kaja Col Bersen Bojer has studied England and experienced how some people were anisg opposn to gay rights.

Threats to gay people’s rights are gag a foothold untry after untry, ” says Bojer.

“The stute nducted rearch on sexualy and genr diversy which was important durg a gay liberatn fight. They want to create a mon gay arena at the book fé. Social arenas where gay people n feel OK are important.

Many visible gay people are still out there holdg themselv back and the way they want to exprs themselv as people, ” he says. We have created a set of ditors and we have some well-qualified ias of what is we should ask gay people.