Luxembourg's gay PM says everyone has a duty to challenge hate speech | Rters

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• LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PM SAYS EVERYONE HAS A DUTY TO CHALLENGE HATE SPEECH
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
• FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS
• LUXEMBOURG GETS FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
• HBAND OF LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PRIME MISTER JOS NATO WAGS
• LUXEMBOURG PM DISMISS HUNGARY'S LGBT LAW, SAYS ABC'S 'MORN FAY' DIDN'T MAKE HIM GAY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PRIME MISTER MAK HISTORIC UN SPEECH

LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PM SAYS EVERYONE HAS A DUTY TO CHALLENGE HATE SPEECH

NEW YORK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Luxembourg’s Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told the Uned Natns on Tuday that as an openly gay polician he uld not accept hate speech and everyone had a duty to challenge PHOTO: Luxembourg's Prime Mister Xavier Bettel speaks durg the 2019 Uned Natns Climate Actn Summ at U. By an openly gay world lear on LGBT+ rights, Bettel lled on world lears to stop eedom of exprsn om leadg to harm. ”Bettel, 46, who was re-elected for a send term 2018, is one of three openly gay and lbian lears the world along wh Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar and Serbia’s Prime Mister Ana married his civil partner 2015, beg the first servg lear the European Unn to wed someone of the same sex.

A study released earlier this year by rearchers at the Hungarian Amy of Scienc, who analyzed rults om a European Social Survey, found homophobia had risen European untri that did not legally regnize same-sex acceptance of gay and lbian people jumped stat where they n marry between 2002 and 2016, untri such as Rsia, Bulgaria, Lhuania, Poland and Ukrae all saw acceptance of gay and lbian people crease over that said homophobia was a “personal choice” that had to be fought agast and beg gay was not “a choice” Febary he nonted Arab lears of untri that have the ath penalty for gay sex at a summ between the European Unn and the Arab the 22 Arab League members, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and Sudan impose the ath penalty for gay sex.

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

Image source, APImage ptn, PM Xavier Bettel, right, wav as he walks wh his partner Gthier Dtenay to the town hall for their marriageLuxembourg's prime mister has bee the first servg EU lear - and send lear the world - to marry a same-sex Bettel married Gthier Dtenay on Friday a private ceremony at the pal's town uple are among the first to benef after the untry changed s laws to allow gay marriag last unn after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner Bettel formed a ernment December 2013 to bee Luxembourg's first openly gay prime mister.

"Former Belgian Prime Mister El di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay natnal Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an enomic fom Kazakhstan, acrdg to AFP news agency.

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.

LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY

”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.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD

“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. Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Mister "empty-chaired" the UK's PM a petty move ont of bemed reporters.

Bettel is openly gay, makg him one of four openly gay heads of ernment. Followg a general electn 2018, Bettel beme the first openly gay Prime Mister the world to be elected for a send term, servg as part of a aln alongsi Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and The Greens.

LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW

Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel married his gay partner on Friday, beg the first European Unn lear to enter to a same-sex unn a symbol of growg social change across the, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, tied the knot wh Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay prime mister, wearg a navy blue su, and his partner, drsed a dark grey su, held hands as they arrived for the low key ceremony at the Luxembourg town hall, where around 100 well-wishers appld them. "Thank you to all Luxembourgers, " Bettel said after the ceremony, as the crowd threw rice and nfetti over the happy well as beg the first lear the 28-natn EU to wed a gay partner, Bettel is only the send the world after Iceland's prime mister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her wrer partner 2010. That is a msage sent at a time when homophobia is on the rise Europe, " add the 39-year-old Michel.

FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS

I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, " he told Belgium's RTBF public televisn. She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic.

LUXEMBOURG GETS FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

Meet Leo, the openly gay, half-Indian Taoiseach (Prime Mister) of Ireland.

El Di Rupo was the Prime Mister of Belgium, and the first openly gay man (and the send LGBT person) to lead a untry.

One of the most strikg moments was when a journalist a media pack chasg him down the street cried, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world.

HBAND OF LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PRIME MISTER JOS NATO WAGS

As one would expect, most gay world lears have belonged to progrsive parti and pursued progrsive agendas, mirrorg the beliefs of the people that elected them. BRUSSELS, June 24 (Rters) - Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told his Hungarian unterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday that Budapt was beg discrimatory and stigmatizg wh s new law banng om schools materials emed to promote homosexualy.

LUXEMBOURG PM DISMISS HUNGARY'S LGBT LAW, SAYS ABC'S 'MORN FAY' DIDN'T MAKE HIM GAY

Dpe cricism om rights groups and polil opposn Hungary, Orban said on Thursday ahead of talks wh his EU peers Bssels that the new bill, which bans the distributn schools of material seen as promotg homosexualy or genr change, was already, who is an advote of gay rights and sometim travels wh his hband to official state viss, said he would challenge Orban over the ntent law durg their meetg.

"To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people - 's not realisg that beg gay is not a choice, " Bettel said.

I am gog to tell him that what he is dog his untry is tolerant and that beg gay is not a choice. "The most difficult thg for me was to accept myself when I realised that I was love wh a person of my sex, was how to say to my parents, how to say to my fay, " he said, strsg that young homosexuals are prone to suici if they fail to embrace who they are, e out and live their liv.

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

Conflatg homosexualy wh paedophilia or pornography was wrong, as was stigmatizg people, he said, addg tongue--cheek that himself beg gay did not pose any danger to anyone. "Bettel also took a jibe at Orban remdg of Jozsef Szajer, who ed to be a proment voice of Hungary's lg Fisz party the European Parliament and played an stmental role rewrg Hungary's nstutn a more nservative he rigned last December over attendg Bssels a gay sex party, which got bted for vlatg COVID-19 rtrictns and which Szajer tried to pe by clamberg down a gutter before beg ught by the police. Luxembourg’s prime mister is to bee the first European Unn lear – and only the send worldwi lear – to marry someone of the same Bettel, 42, and his partner, Gthier Dtenay, an archect om Belgium, are among the first gay men to wed the mostly Catholic Grand Duchy sce beme the latt EU state to extend full rights to same-sex unn five years after Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the then prime mister of Iceland, beme the first servg lear the world to marry a same-sex and Dtenay, who have been civil partners sce 2010, were expected to say their vows a quiet civil ceremony wh iends and fay, away om the glare of publicy.

“He do not want to put his private life the public spotlight and he has turned down requts om the celebry magaz to ver the event, ” a iend told Agence France-Prse earlier this, who is lear of Luxembourg’s centre-right Democratic party, me out publicly as gay 2008. He has appeared alongsi Bettel at a number of official events, cludg the royal weddg of Prce Guillme and Prcs Stéphanie is known is that was Dtenay who proposed, reportedly askg for Bettel’s hand jt weeks after Luxembourg’s parliament last July beme the nth EU legislature to lift a ban on gay marriag.

Luxembourg's out prime mister, Xavier Bettel, married his longtime partner, Gthier Dtay, Friday, makg them the world's only openly gay "first uple, " to borrow an Amerin term, Luxembourger Wort is reportg. "But I was not the 'gay ndidate. People didn't vote for me bee I'm gay or I'm straight.

LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PRIME MISTER MAK HISTORIC UN SPEECH

Xavier Bettel and Gthier Dtenay entered a civil partnership 2010 and married 2015 after Luxembourg's legislators approved gay marriage. Prime Mister Bettel, 44, and Belgian archect Dtenay entered a civil partnership 2010 and married 2015 after Luxembourg’s legislators approved gay marriage. Bettel beme the first openly gay Prime Mister of Luxembourg December 2013, after an electn mpaign which his sexualy was not a secret nor an issue.

Bettel is the world’s only gay head of ernment sce Iceland’s former Prime Mister Johanna Sigurðardóttir, a lbian, and Belgium’s El Di Rupo fished their mandat 2013 and 2015 rpectively. “But I was not the ‘gay ndidate. ’ People didn’t vote for me bee I’m gay or I’m straight.

Others saw the vis as a “powerful msage” on the Vatin’s posn on gay rights. The gay prime mister of Luxembourg ed the dais of the European Unn’s parliament Wednday to stand up for LGBTQ rights the 27-natn bloc and to chastise member state Hungary, which wants to curtail discsns of homosexualy schools and the media.

"If there’s anyone this hoe who thks that you’ve bee a homosexual by watchg the televisn or listeng to a song, then you’ve not unrstood anythg, " Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told legislators at the European Parliament's plenary ssn Strasbourg, France. "The most difficult (thg) for a homosexual is to accept themselv.

CHRISTIAN MAN FACING JAIL FOR EX-LGBT TESTIMONY REPORTED TO POLICE BY EU EQUALITY OFFICIAL: REPORTA 2021 law prohibed sharg ntent on homosexualy or genr transn films, advertisements and other media targetg people unr 18. It also banned rmatn on homosexualy school sex tn programs.