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

Contents:

• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• GAY RIGHTS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• U.S. 'PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY,' BUTTIGIEG SAYS
• WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
• WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS "'S ALMOST CERTA" HE WOULDN'T BE FIRST GAY PRINT
• GAY MEN AND THE PRINTS WHO LOVED THEMBTIPRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY ADVISERS. BUT ’S ONLY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH THEM.JAM KIRCHICKUPDATED OCT. 23, 2020 11:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 24, 2014 5:45AM EDT THE DAILY BEASTSOMETIM THE SIGNIFINCE OF AN EM THE NEWS N BE MEASURED BY HOW LTLE ATTENTN ATTRACTS. TO SEE HOW FAR THE E OF GAY RIGHTS HAS PROGRSED SUCH A REMARKABLY SHORT PERD OF TIME, NSIR THE FOLLOWG SENTENCE BURIED AN OTHERWISE BANAL ASSOCIATED PRS REPORT ABOUT BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA’S VATN PLANS OVER THE RECENT FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA. “THEY ARE STAYG WH WHE HOE RATOR MICHAEL SMH AND HIS PARTNER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SPA JAM COSTOS, AT THEIR VATN HOME.”NOT LONG AGO, THE NOTN OF THE FIRST COUPLE SPENDG A LONG WEEKEND WH A GAY ONE, LET ALONE ADVERTISG TO THE PRS, WOULD HAVE PRENTED THE WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF WH A PR HEADACHE. WOULD THE PUBLIC READ TOO MUCH TO ? WOULD SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE? HOW WILL PLAY PEORIA? NOW, NOBODY BATS AN EYE.AMERIN PRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY IENDS AND ADVISERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE OCCUPIED POSNS NOT SO STEREOTYPILLY SWISH AS WHE HOE RATOR. ONE ULD NCEIVABLY START THE LIST WH WILLIAM KG, WHO SERVED AS VICE PRINT TO FRANKL PIERCE, AND IS SPECULATED BY SOME HISTORIANS TO HAVE BEEN THE LOVER OF PRINT JAM BUCHANAN. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, HOWEVER, THEIR HOMOSEXUALY WAS A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET, REVEALED UNTENTNALLY OR AS A RULT OF EMBARRASSG SNDAL. IT IS ONLY VERY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH IENDS OF DOROTHY.JAM KIRCHICK
• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

“It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense.

“I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. “As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says.

"Hoover thought many left-leang Amerins posed a threat to the natn, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and a long-term relatnship wh ai Cly Tolson. "Many loyal Amerins, by reason of stabily, alholism, homosexualy, or prev tennci to associate wh Communist-ont groups, are untentnally secury risks, " Ike himself wrote, although he also admted feelg guilty over his treatment of Vannberg.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

JohnsonKennedy and Johnson may have never thought their civil rights law would be terpreted as protectg LGBT people, but Kennedy, at least, would probably approve -- his bt iend was a gay man, Lem Billgs.

" Its Office of Civil Rights will therefore vtigate such claims, offerg a means of relief for transgenr and, to some extent, lbian, gay, and bisexual CarterCarter, who intifi as a "born-aga" Christian, is proof that ep relig fah need not go hand hand wh homophobia. In 1976, as a ndidate, he had ma clear he would sign a gay rights bill, and 1977, durg his princy, the first-ever gay and lbian legatn vised the Whe Hoe to discs policy issu wh admistratn officials.

He has famoly said, "I never knew of any word or actn of J Christ that discrimated agast anyone, " and has endorsed marriage ReaganReagan's greatt effect on the gay populatn was undoubtedly his rponse, or lack thereof, to a disease that took the liv of many gay men. Although the former actor was apparently personally fortable wh gay people, he drew much of his support om the antigay relig right, such as Jerry Falwell and his so-lled Moral Majory, and officials his admistratn clud such notor homophob as Gary Ber and Pat Buchanan.

GAY RIGHTS

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. 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).

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

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

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

U.S. 'PROBABLY HAD EXCELLENT PRINTS WHO WERE GAY,' BUTTIGIEG SAYS

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

WHO WAS OUR FIRST GAY PRINT?

Activists also turned the once-disreputable Pk Triangle to a symbol of gay Polil Victori The creased visibily and activism of LGBTQ dividuals the 1970s helped the movement make progrs on multiple onts. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. Baker signed and stched together the first rabow flag, which he unveiled at a pri para followg year, 1979, more than 100, 000 people took part the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS "'S ALMOST CERTA" HE WOULDN'T BE FIRST GAY PRINT

The law prevented the ernment om grantg feral marriage benefs to same-sex upl and allowed stat to refe to regnize same-sex marriage certifit om other marriage rights backtracked, gay rights advot sred other victori. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

Gay Marriage Legalized Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other upl across the state also tied the knot. Conservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn on June 2015.

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.

GAY MEN AND THE PRINTS WHO LOVED THEMBTIPRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY ADVISERS. BUT ’S ONLY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH THEM.JAM KIRCHICKUPDATED OCT. 23, 2020 11:00AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 24, 2014 5:45AM EDT THE DAILY BEASTSOMETIM THE SIGNIFINCE OF AN EM THE NEWS N BE MEASURED BY HOW LTLE ATTENTN ATTRACTS. TO SEE HOW FAR THE E OF GAY RIGHTS HAS PROGRSED SUCH A REMARKABLY SHORT PERD OF TIME, NSIR THE FOLLOWG SENTENCE BURIED AN OTHERWISE BANAL ASSOCIATED PRS REPORT ABOUT BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA’S VATN PLANS OVER THE RECENT FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA. “THEY ARE STAYG WH WHE HOE RATOR MICHAEL SMH AND HIS PARTNER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SPA JAM COSTOS, AT THEIR VATN HOME.”NOT LONG AGO, THE NOTN OF THE FIRST COUPLE SPENDG A LONG WEEKEND WH A GAY ONE, LET ALONE ADVERTISG TO THE PRS, WOULD HAVE PRENTED THE WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF WH A PR HEADACHE. WOULD THE PUBLIC READ TOO MUCH TO ? WOULD SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE? HOW WILL PLAY PEORIA? NOW, NOBODY BATS AN EYE.AMERIN PRINTS HAVE LONG HAD GAY IENDS AND ADVISERS, MANY OF WHOM HAVE OCCUPIED POSNS NOT SO STEREOTYPILLY SWISH AS WHE HOE RATOR. ONE ULD NCEIVABLY START THE LIST WH WILLIAM KG, WHO SERVED AS VICE PRINT TO FRANKL PIERCE, AND IS SPECULATED BY SOME HISTORIANS TO HAVE BEEN THE LOVER OF PRINT JAM BUCHANAN. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, HOWEVER, THEIR HOMOSEXUALY WAS A CLOSELY GUARD SECRET, REVEALED UNTENTNALLY OR AS A RULT OF EMBARRASSG SNDAL. IT IS ONLY VERY RECENTLY THAT THE LEAR OF THE EE WORLD HAS FELT SECURE ENOUGH TO LET BE KNOWN THAT HE’S IENDS WH IENDS OF DOROTHY.JAM KIRCHICK

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. ”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. “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.

11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

A Qunipiac poll released April found that 70 percent of Amerin voters are open to electg a print who is a gay, the same survey showed that a majory of voters (52 percent) believe the untry is not ready for one. ___Read more origal 2020 verage om Yahoo News:In Iowa, Mayor Pete Buttigieg mpaigns on the 'power' of beg gayButtigieg suggts Pence offered him empty praise when he me outBeto O’Rourke says he’s unfazed by skg poll numbers IowaBernie Sanrs go all on mocratic socialism — agaWill Donald Tmp and Steve Bannon rne for 2020?

Alexanr Gardner / APPerhaps the most equently mentned name discsns of homosexualy and the princy is one-term Print Jam Buchanan, elected a young man, Buchanan was engaged to Anne Coleman, the 24-year-old dghter of an iron magnate, but she died before the two tied the knot. Buchanan was reported to have never openly urted a woman after Coleman’s ath and died a bachelor at the age of observers suggt that Buchanan may have been gay, potg to his relatnship wh Alabama Senator William Ruf Kg.

”“The notn of beg gay is brand new ncept that don’t [emerge] until the late 19th, early 20th century, ” and, he add, was only a sexual inty that uld be claimed proudly the s after the 1969 Stonewall uprisg. “The kd of answer we want is elive, ” Balcerski admted, but he argued to make a statistil argument based on ntemporary surveys of sexual and genr inty, or to e the term “gay” to refer to timate same-sex iendships or same-sex romance is to impose a ntemporary worldview on 19th century social also downplays the signifince of Buttigieg’s ndidacy. But as Jim Loewen at the History News Network would like to remd , even if Obama were gay, he wouldn’t be the first: more than 150 years before the Uned Stat had s first black print, had s first homosexual manr chief.