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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23 - RSIAN GAY AND LBIAN LERATURE
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014 * russian gay literature *
The publishg hoe has bee the target of the ernment’s first vtigatn to possible vlatns of the new law expands on a 2013 piece of legislatn banng the distributn of so-lled “gay propaganda” to mors. ”Ira Rolduga, a historian of queer history Rsia and a postdoctoral fellow at the Universy of Ptsburgh, said that Put offers Rsians a false versn of history where gay people never had a place Rsia.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.
“My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors.