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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- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- THE 9 PRI-CELEBRATG PANI DONATED LNS TO ANTI-GAY CONGRS MEMBERS
- THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Dpe givg lns to anti-gay policians, the HRC gave the pani a perfect 100 sre. * gay politicians 2017 *
”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.
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.
THE 9 PRI-CELEBRATG PANI DONATED LNS TO ANTI-GAY CONGRS MEMBERS
17 Antigay Lears Exposed as Gay or Bi. Not every antigay crackpot is actually gay, but there's no shortage of those who actually are -- pecially the Republin Party. This antigay activist and founr of the Fay Rearch Council shocked the world 2010 when he was ught returng om a European vatn wh a male rt he found on He ially claimed he hired the man to rry his luggage bee he had jt had surgery and wasn't able to lift anythg.
Kg, who promoted bans on homosexualy and sex toys, was reportedly found bed wh the young man by Kg's wife. " He claimed he wasn't gay and acced the man, a paid rt, of extortn, but later told prosecutors he wanted the chang dropped. This antigay advote and former print of the Young Republin Natnal Feratn was sentenced to six years prison after he was found guilty of sexual asslt for performg oral sex on an unwillg male after a 2007 private party for Republin supporters Indiana.
THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
Dreier neher nfirmed or nied beg gay, and he kept his seat for about another . An antigay unty missner Cumberland County, Pa., Barclay rigned om his posn 2008 after beg ught hirg male prostut and g hidn meras to viotape at least 100 of the sexual enunters at his home.
Roy Ashburn me out 2010 after reports surfaced of him beg arrted for dnk drivg after partyg at a gay nightclub Sacramento. In an terview wh Bakersfield rad statn KERN, Ashburn said, "I am gay.