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