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.
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- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- FIRST GAY UPLE TO BE MARRIED PENNSYLVANIA HAVE BEEN TOGETHER 17 YEARS
- PENNSYLVANIA UNTY ISSU FIRST GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE; SAME-SEX UPLE WED SHORTLY AFTER
- PENNSYLVANIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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After he signed marriage licens for about three dozen gay upl, Pennsylvania’s Department of Health — which was overseen by Republin Gov. SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).
California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. 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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
”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.
FIRST GAY UPLE TO BE MARRIED PENNSYLVANIA HAVE BEEN TOGETHER 17 YEARS
”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. “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.
PENNSYLVANIA UNTY ISSU FIRST GAY MARRIAGE LICENSE STATE; SAME-SEX UPLE WED SHORTLY AFTER
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.
PENNSYLVANIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.