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Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS: A POLIL AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- GAY AND LBIAN POLICS
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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. * gay and lesbian politics *
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. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.
GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS: A POLIL AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
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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.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Whilst protected by equaly laws, lbian gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers have varyg experienc wh Uned Kgdom schools. Schools are predomantly heteronormative, moreover LGB has been posned as nflict wh disurs of childhood nocence. However, recently there is more expectatn of cln of diverse genr and sexuali. Although how this is enacted is nsistent wh and between schools. By drawg on terview data nducted 2020, this rearch analys the experienc of LGB teachers. Moreover, brgs together two bodi of lerature that do not often speak to each other—rearch that explor teacher inty and rearch that centers LGB teacher inty. Fdgs suggt there are monali between the bodi of rearch, for stance around the importance of ‘beg yourself’ and of teachers’ past experienc. However, there is special signifince for LGB teachers whose inti have historilly been nied schools, bee of their sexual inty. In addn, there is the expectatn unr neoliberalism of dividuals actng cln. As such, the LGB teacher may bee a pedagogil rource. None of this is equally available, although marketized notns of diversy place rponsibily onto the dividual. In their actns, the LGB teacher inty is always profsnal, personal and polil. * gay and lesbian politics *
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. Gay men?
Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr.
GAY AND LBIAN POLICS
We Are Everywhere brgs together the key primary sourc relatg to the polics of homosexualy. Tracg the evolutn of the lbian and gay movement, We * gay and lesbian politics *
Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.
Gay and lbian polics by Mark Blasi, 1994, Temple Universy Prs edn, English * gay and lesbian politics *
Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer. And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.