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.
Contents:
- A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
- PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
- ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
- A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
- BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — the first ndidate who is a lennial, openly gay and an Afghan War veteran, jos the 2020 printial race, sayg, "our untry needs a h start." * gay running president *
Should Buttigieg w his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomatn, he will bee the first nomee of a major polil party who publicly intifi as gay.
That a gay married man is nng a ser mpaign for print, however, is a big al, and we shouldn’t let the improbabily of his ndidacy stop om acknowledgg this moment. Gay marriage was legal only two stat January 2009 – Massachetts and Connecticut.
Barack Obama beme Print, and although he was supportive of expandg legal rights for the LGBT muny and gay upl, he was on the rerd durg his mpaign as beg opposed to same-sex marriage. I am not favor of gay marriage, ” Obama told MTV News durg the 2008 mpaign. In 2010, Print Obama signed to law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, endg a policy enacted 1993 that prevent gay men and lbians om servg openly the ary.
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
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Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry. And durg this time, ndidat who publicly intify as gay, bisexual and transgenr have broken barriers wh their ws. In 2012, Wisns’s Tammy Baldw beme the first gay person elected to the US Senate (she was re-elected 2018).
In last year’s midterm electns, Colorado’s Jared Polis beme the first gay man the US to be elected ernor, Kyrsten Sema, who is bisexual, won a US Senate seat Arizona, and Sharice Davids, a lbian, won her US Hoe race Kansas.
All of this is to say, que simply, that a relatively brief perd of time, the polics surroundg gay marriage and LGBT equaly shifted dramatilly. For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her.
OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
Pete Buttigieg, a gay Democrat, said he's nng for print bee he se this a matter of phg ahead wh what he lls "ter-generatnal jtice." * gay running president *
And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny. But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The South Bend, Indiana mayor ma the remarks rponse to the suggtn he is "too young, too liberal [and] too gay" to be print. * gay running president *
“I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time. “If elected, you would be the first openly gay print of the Uned Stat, ” Stephen Colbert said to Pete Buttigieg after the mayor of South Bend, Ind., clared his ndidacy.
While the characterizatn of beg openly gay or “out” is relatively new, the fact is the Uned Stat has already had a gay print whose ntemporari knew : Jam Buchanan. Ined, the Uned Stat has also had a gay vice print and, maybe more surprisgly, a gay senator om stunts takg U. Andrew Jackson referred to Kg as “Miss Nancy”— a phemism for a gay ntemporari lled Kg Buchanan’s “better half, ” and one ngrsman referred to him as “Mrs.
” All this would be que peculiar if Buchanan was not gay. At most uld suggt Buchanan was not openly discsg this moment, we fet that beg gay the mid-19th century did not tomatilly exclu a man om natnal learship.
ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
Can the US revalise s astcture? Is the US ready for a gay print? And do Buttigieg still plan to n one day? * gay running president *
The ia that some people, cludg policians and social lears, are gay was not news or shockg to our forefathers.
S., sorry, Pete Buttigieg, you n’t aim to be the first gay print, although you uld be the first married gay print.
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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
In 2012, he blazed a path as a gay ndidate for print. Fred Karger won't let people fet. * gay running president *
”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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * gay running president *
”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!
ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
”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.
A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
“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.
BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020.
The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana. As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man. Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to n for print.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced Wednday that he was formg a printial exploratory mtee — makg him the first openly gay Democrat to seek the office. Before Buttigieg, the only openly gay person to n for print was Republin Fred Karger.
Buttigieg said that while beg a gay ndidate might not make news the astal ci, certaly still did Indiana, where he has anchored his still-young polil reer.