Gthier Dtenay, the hband of Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister, was mglg wh the wiv and girliends of other world lears durg the NATO nference Bssels on Thursday.
Contents:
- 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
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 . * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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
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. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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
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 ntent." emprop="scriptn * luxembourg gay prime minister *
”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.
"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
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 gay prime minister *
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.
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
Xavier Bettel and his partner, Gthier Dtenay, among first gay men to wed mostly Catholic Grand Duchy * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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. I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, " he told Belgium's RTBF public televisn.
FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS
Xavier Bettel and Gthier Dtenay entered a civil partnership 2010 and married 2015 after Luxembourg's legislators approved gay marriage" emprop="scriptn * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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.
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!
LUXEMBOURG GETS FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
Prime Mister Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg, who is gay, is standg up for LGBTQ rights the European Unn. Bettel chastised Hungary for anti-LGBTQ policy sugtns. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world. 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. 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.
HBAND OF LUXEMBOURG'S GAY PRIME MISTER JOS NATO WAGS
Luxembourg swore Xavier Bettel as s first openly gay prime mister on Wednday, pavg the way for the troductn of social reforms such as same-sex marriage. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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.
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 PM DISMISS HUNGARY'S LGBT LAW, SAYS ABC'S 'MORN FAY' DIDN'T MAKE HIM GAY
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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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
It picts the gay prime mister of Luxembourg and his hband meetg the lbian prime mister of Serbia and her partner. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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.
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.
LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PRIME MISTER MAK HISTORIC UN SPEECH
From the US’ Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and Serbia’s Ana Brnabić, there are more openly gay and lbian policians senr ernments around the globe than ever before * luxembourg gay prime minister *
“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.
"Beg gay is not a choice. You know, I did not jt wake up one day after watchg some advertisg or Morn Fay and jt bee gay," Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel said. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
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.
He noted that intifyg publicly as gay uld be dangero too many natns outsi the EU. LUXEMBOURG, Dec 4 (Rters) - Luxembourg swore Xavier Bettel as s first openly gay prime mister on Wednday, pavg the way for the troductn of social reforms such as same-sex replac Jean-Cl Juncker, who was until Wednday the European Unn’s longt-servg head of ernment, wh 19 years power. That distctn is now held by Estonian Prime Mister Ands Ansip, who took office April, whose puty Etienne Schneir is also openly gay, is expected to troduce other chang like replacg relig stctn school wh more general ethics Democratic Party, the Socialists and the Greens won a slim majory an electn on Oct.
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. * luxembourg gay prime minister *
Hband of Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister jos the NATO WAGs cludg Melania Tmp and a none-too-happy-lookg vout Mrs ErdoganGthier Dtenay, Luxembourg's First Gentleman, mgled wh the spo of world lears on ThursdayHe joed the lik of Melania Tmp Bssels while their partners attend the NATO nference Dtenay, who married his hband 2015, posed for photos wh the group of women at the Royal CastleThe Belgian archect earlier toured the Magrte Mm and stopped off at a Belgian fashn label shop Published: 21:11 BST, 25 May 2017 | Updated: 10:30 BST, 26 May 2017 Advertisement. The hband of Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel has been mglg wh the wiv and girliends of other world lears durg the NATO nference. Scroll down for vio Gthier Dtenay, the hband of Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister, posed for photos Bssels on Thursday wh (ont row om L to R) First Lady of France Brigte Macron, First Lady of Turkey Eme Gulbaran Erdogan, Queen Mathil of Belgium, Jens Stoltenberg's partner Ingrid Schuled, Bulgarian Print Rumen Rav's partner Dislava Rava, Belgian Prime Mister Charl Michel's partner Amelie Derbdrenghien and (back row L to R) partner of Slovenia's Prime Mister Cerar's wife Moj Stropnik and First Lady of Iceland Thora Margret Baldvsdottir Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, joed the lik of US First Lady Melania Tmp Bssels on Thursday while their partners were off discsg world mattersDrsed a black su wh a grey tie, Dtenay stood among the world lear's glamoro stood directly behd Mrs Tmp and the none-too-pleased Eme Erdogan, the voutly Mlim wife of Tayyip Erdogan, Print of Turkey.
Back row: First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gthier Dtenay, partner of Slovenia's Prime Mister Moj Stropnik and First Lady of Iceland Thora Margret Baldvsdottir Dtenay stood wh Belgian Prime Mister Charl Michel's partner Amelie Derbdrenghien and First Lady of Turkey Eme Erdogan at a shop of Belgian fashn label DelvxDtenay was pictured enjoyg a iendly chat wh the French and US first ladi at the mm, which is famed for works like the 1964 'self-portra' of a bowler-hatted man whose face is hidn by an hband beme the first gay EU lear to enter to a same-sex unn when the uple married a low key ceremony two years ago. A photograph of two world-lears meetg has been celebrated on social media, wh some sayg reprents the growg prence of LGBTIQ+ people photo,, picts Luxembourg's gay prime mister Xavier Bettel and Serbia's lbian prime mister Ana Brnabić - together wh their hband and partner, lears met on September 8 to discs Serbia’s proposed accsn to the, who was elected prime mister back 2013, was only the third ever openly gay world lear at the time. Openly gay ternatnal policians, om left: Ana Brnabić, Xavier Bettel, Jens Spahn, Pete Buttigieg, Grant Robertson.
5 of the most powerful LGBT policians the world: om Joe Bin’s bet pick Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and the gay prime misters of Serbia and Luxembourg. The prime misters of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, and New Zealand’s puty to Jacda Arrn, Grant Robertson, are all part of a wave of openly gay policians ernment Published: 10:25am, 22 Jan, 2021 Updated: 10:25am, 22 Jan, 2021 Openly gay ternatnal policians, om left: Ana Brnabić, Xavier Bettel, Jens Spahn, Pete Buttigieg, Grant Robertson.