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
- LBIAN AND GAY EQUALY PROJECT AND EIGHTEEN OTHERS V. MISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS
- NATNAL COALN FOR GAY AND LBIAN EQUALY V MISTER OF HOME
- CASE REVIEW: NATNAL COALN FOR GAY AND LBIAN EQUALY AND OTHERS V. MISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS AND OTHERS
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. ”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!
LBIAN AND GAY EQUALY PROJECT AND EIGHTEEN OTHERS V. MISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS
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”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.
NATNAL COALN FOR GAY AND LBIAN EQUALY V MISTER OF HOME
Mister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another; Lbian and Gay Equaly Project and Others v Mister of Home Affairs and Others, is a landmark cisn of the Constutnal Court of South Ai which the urt led unanimoly that same-sex upl have a nstutnal right to marry. The judgment, thored by Jtice Albie Sachs and livered on 1 December 2005, gave Parliament one year to pass the necsary legislatn. As a rult, the Civil Unn Act me to force on 30 November 2006, makg South Ai the fifth untry the world to regnise same-sex marriage. The se was heard on May 17, 2005, by Langa ACJ, Madala J, Mokgoro J, Moseneke J, Ngbo J, O'Regan J, Sachs J, Skweyiya J, Yaob J and Van Der Wthuizen J. MTK Moerane SC appeared for the applints, P Oosthuizen for the rponnts, JJ Smyth QC for the first and send amici curiae, GC Pretori SC for the third amic curiae, DI Berger SC for the applints, and M Donen SC for the rponnts. In the Fourie se, the applints' unsel was stcted by the State Attorney, and the rponnts' by M. van n Berg. The third amic curiae was stcted by Motla Conradie. In the Lbian and Gay Equaly Project se, the applints' unsel was stcted by Nicholls, Cambanis & Associat, and the rponnts' by the State Attorney. The se ncerned applitns for leave to appeal and cross-appeal agast a cisn of the Supreme Court of Appeal upled wh an applitn for direct accs to the Constutnal Court . * gay minister of home affairs *
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.
gay marriage. Case CCT 10/05LESBIAN AND GAY EQUALITY PROJECTAND EIGHTEEN. applints and the gay and lbian muny but also to society at.
our equaly jurispnce had taken great stris rpect of gays and.
CASE REVIEW: NATNAL COALN FOR GAY AND LBIAN EQUALY AND OTHERS V. MISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS AND OTHERS
In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday. * gay minister of home affairs *
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