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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* gay president 2022 *
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. 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.
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 *
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. 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.
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 *
“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.
CLDE GAY NAMED HARVARD’S THIRTIETH PRINT
“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.