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- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- NEW LATVIAN PRINT BE FIRST OPENLY GAY EU HEAD OF STATE
- LATVIA IS WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EU, X SHOWS
- LATVIA SWEARS EDGARS RKEVICS AS EU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
- RKEVICS SWORN AS LATVIAN PRINT, FIRST GAY EU HEAD OF STATE
- EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY
- RIGA GAY BARS & CLUBS
- GAY MAN ELECTED AS PRINT OF LATVIA
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- LATVIA SWORE NEW PRINT - FIRST GAY MAN OFFICE EUROPE - VOILA! NEWS
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”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.
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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.
RKEVICS SWORN AS LATVIAN PRINT, FIRST GAY EU HEAD OF STATE
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“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. Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the European Unn's first openly gay head of state.
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The Saeima elected Edgars Rkēvičs, the ndidate put forward by the centre-right New Uny, as Print of Latvia. Rkēvičs was elected the third round of votg, wh 52 vot favour, and 35 agast (surpassg the 51 vot required for a simple majory). Rkēvičs be Latvia’s first openly gay Print and was the first proment polil figure Latvia to e out as gay 2014. * gay latvia *
July 8 (UPI) -- Edgars Rkevics was sworn as Latvia's print on Saturday, beg the first openly gay head of state the European Unn. He me out as gay 2014 and has been a champn of LGBTQ rights.
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The ath of a gay Latvian man this week after his cloth were soaked wh fuel and l on fire has shocked the untry, wh mpaigners llg a homophobic attack and accg police of actn.
Normunds Kdzulis, a victim of the homophobic arson attack Latvia last week, has succumbed to his juri. Kdzulis had received homophobic ath threats the past and had reloted om the pal Riga to Tums, a quiet town around 70 kilometr to the wt, acrdg to prs reports.
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But Tums too he was a victim of homophobia and he was physilly attacked at least four tim. The se has prompted a natnal bate about homophobia Latvia, an EU member state of 2 ln people that amend s nstutn 2006 to specifilly ban same-sex marriage.
“We don’t want to live a homophobic society… Change is need… and we want that change NOW, ” Mozaika, a gay rights associatn, said on Facebook. The burned entrance of their home has now been vered wh rabow posters and gay flags.
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Latvia, Lhuania and Poland have been ranked the three worst plac EU to be an LGBTI cizen, acrdg an x by the gay rights anisatn ILGA.
The Rabow Europe 2016 x, published on Tuday (10 May), examed the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex people across Europe based on how laws and polici affect the cizens and ranked 49 European natns acrdgly. In Lhuania, many LGBTI-iendly events took place 2015, and Vilni’ mayor is favour of hostg the pal’s first gay pri 2016.
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The executive director at ILGA-Europe also lashed out at the European Commissn and Vice-Print Frans Timmermans, who is also charge of EU Fundamental Rights, for not dog enough to bat homophobic and transphobic vlence. Image source, EPAImage ptn, In his first speech as print, Edgars Rkevics said the "fight agast rptn, crime and rtels mt be a natnal prry"Latvia's long-servg foreign mister Edgars Rkevics has bee the first openly gay head of state of a European Unn natn. Although generally a ceremonial posn, Latvia's print n veto legislatn and ll EU has had openly gay heads of ernments before, but never a gay head of state.
Former Belgian Prime Mister El di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay head of Rkevics, 49, first me out 2014 and has been a vol champn of LGBT rights ever marriage is illegal Latvia, though the untry's nstutnal urt regnised same sex unns last May, Mr Rkevics was elected by Latvia's parliament to be the untry's next print at the third round of Saturday his gural speech, Mr Rkevics vowed to ntue supportg Ukrae's ongog war effort agast said Latvia's foreign policy "do not have time for mistak", addg he will act "quickly, cisively and wisely" his speech, Mr Rkevics enuraged young Latvians to "break the glass ceilg" as he addrsed equaly as beg a "signifint problem". Edgars Rkevics, Latvia's longt-servg foreign mister, today beme the first openly gay head of state the European Unn.
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Latvia has elected a gay man, Edgars Rkēvičs, as print, a first for Baltic natns and the European Latvia, as many other natns wh parliamentary systems, the print is elected by Parliament and serv a largely ceremonial role as head of state.