Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex marriage.
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- SPA’S NEW PRIME MISTER APPOTS TWO OPENLY GAY BET MISTERS
- SPA’S ERNMENT HAS TWO OPENLY GAY BET MISTERS
SPA’S NEW PRIME MISTER APPOTS TWO OPENLY GAY BET MISTERS
The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. * gay politicians spain *
REUTERS/Serg Perez Acquire Licensg RightsSummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn.
The new Prime Mister of Spa has chosen two openly gay men to serve as bet misters. Both Maxim Huerta and Fernando Gran-Marlaska are openly gay. Related: The gay world lears who broke down barriers on LGBT rights.
Madrid, Spa – Newly elected Spanish Prime Mister Pedro Sanchez has picked two openly gay policians for posts his bet. The appotment of two openly gay misters has raised hop that Sanchez’s new ernment will be more supportive of LGBT rights than Rajoy’s was. (Seattle Gay News – Mike Andrew at).
SPA’S ERNMENT HAS TWO OPENLY GAY BET MISTERS
MADRID (Rters) - Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex PHOTO: Santiago Abasl, lear of far-right party VOX, attends the first ssn of parliament followg a general electn Madrid, Spa, May 21, 2019. Bernat Armangue/File PhotoIn the mpaign for this Sunday’s lol, regnal and EU electns, Vox has pledged to curtail gay pri paras, heaped ridicule on diversy lsons wants to scrap schools and has even drawn parallels between homosexualy and natnalist, anti-immigratn Vox won about 10 percent of the vot a natnal electn last month to bee the first far-right party wh a signifint number of lawmakers sce the ath of dictator Francis Fran now hop to enhance s clout Sunday’s new batch of electns, and s hunt for vot has shifted the foc of s attacks away om Catalonia’s pennce drive and on to the LGBT the 2005 approval of the same-sex marriage bill by the parti of the left, center-left and center-right, even the ma nservative People’s Party (PP) which vehemently opposed has changed tack, approvg var bills fense of LGBT rights. Some of s policians have e out as gay and married their partners.
”Vox lear Santiago Abasl has said supports same-sex civil unns but not marriage, and is agast LGBT activism even though he said has “many gays and lbians” s ranks. Vox’s one senator ma his but the upper hoe of parliament Febary by blockg a motn agast homophobia Vox ndidate for the Madrid regnal learship Roc Monaster said on Wednday that school children as young as eight were beg enuraged class publicly-fund schools “for boys to try beg girls...
A strong rult for Vox at a regnal level uld place a qutn mark over tnal programs such as Madrid’s that have been n by var regns over the past few Vox ndidate for the Madrid cy mayorship, Javier Ortega Smh, said earlier this month he would move the Madrid Gay Pri Para to a park the suburbs om the center “bee they e problems and traffic jams”, and make anizers pay to clean up activists lled the ments anti-LGBT and anti-femism rhetoric puts Vox closer to the lg right-wg parti Poland than to most wtern European untri, such as France or Holland, where rightist populists have urted LGBT voters by sayg they want to protect them om any threats om radil Islamists. “On this, I’m a ltle agast bee I believe that you have to rpect gays, lbians and all this, everyone has the right to be ee and ci how they want to be, ” said Alejandra Parr, 35, who works an vtment firm, addg that the Gay Pri para central Madrid was good for tourism.