While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers.
Contents:
- HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
- CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD’S THIRTIETH PRINT
HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
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. * gay president 2022 *
Clde Gay, a wily admired higher tn lear and distguished scholar of mocracy and polil participatn, will bee the 30th print of Harvard Universy on July 1.
Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts. The dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay received her bachelor’s gree 1992 om Stanford, where she majored enomics and was award the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt unrgraduate this.
A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment. Speakg after her electn, Gay said, “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn. Gay was elected to the princy today by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy’s prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy’s Board of Overseers.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* gay president 2022 *
Known for her broad tellectual cursy and terdisciplary outlook, Gay is regnized as a highly fluential expert on Amerin polil participatn. A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard. “Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.
Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today. In addn, Gay has been engaged a range of amic and programmatic iativ, cludg as a leadg voice wh both the Amic Council and the Provost’s Council, the two prcipal Universy-wi foms for chartg stutnal prri and plans.
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
Clde Gay, the an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the universy’s first Black lear, and the send woman. She will take office jt as the universy fac a Supreme Court cisn on affirmative actn. * gay president 2022 *
Gay also has a ep mment to amic eedom, llg “the touchstone for everythg we are tryg to achieve, ” and has been a strong advote for clive excellence throughout her reer, cludg durg her anship. “I uldn’t be more pleased by the selectn of Clde Gay as the next Harvard print, ” said Hopi Hoekstra, Alexanr Agassiz Profsor of Zoology at Harvard Universy. Seekg to enable a strong, creative, and tellectually vibrant FAS for the long term, Gay iated a faculty-led, multiyear strategic planng effort the fall of 2021.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
Clde Gay, an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc, to succeed Lawrence S. Baw * gay president 2022 *
“Dean Gay very clearly tablished the fundamental prcipl that guid how FAS addrsed the many challeng posed by the panmic, ” said Christopher Stubbs, the Samuel C. “Dean Gay’s abily to lead om prciple and valu, alongsi a natural stct to brg people together om across discipl and areas of expertise to addrs big challeng, will serve Harvard well the years to e, ” said Stubbs. “Clde Gay has monstrated visn to advance rearch and tn, ep mment to Harvard’s missn, temperament to listen and learn om the many rich sourc of expertise our faculty, and fortu to make difficult cisns.
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.
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. ”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.
CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD’S THIRTIETH PRINT
“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.
“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. They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs.
Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.