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Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY
• SAN MARO APPOTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• GAY HEADS OF STATE (AS , OBLIGATE HOMOSEXUALS)
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LATVIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF A BALTIC NATN
• HISTORIC LGBTQ+ MOMENT: LATVIA ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

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

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.

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

”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.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! ”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.

MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY 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. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot. “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.

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

1/11 Cred(Guillermo Gutierrez Carrasl/SOPA Imag/LightRocket/Getty Imag)View as articleJune 1 marked the start of Pri month, acknowledged by untri across the globe as a time to memorate the LGBTQ+ Pri month is wily celebrated, LGBTQ+ rights are still subject to bate much of the world, wh many untri divid over gay marriage, genr-affirmg re for transgenr mors and other legislatn affectg the LGBTQ+ muny. Lawmakers Latvia’s legislature elected Rkēvičs to serve as print wh 52 vot May, makg him the European Unn’s first openly gay head of 2014, Rkēvičs tweeted that Latvia “mt create a legal amework for all kds of partnerships, I will fight for , I know that there will be mega hysteria right away, but #Proudtobegay. ” Shortly after, he tweeted “I proudly announce I am gay...

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

When she entered ernment as mister of public admistratn and lol ernment 2016, Brnabić told the Associated Prs, "Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won't be known as the gay mister.

In the nservative untry, Serbia’s nstutn f marriage as a unn between a man and a woman and gay civil partnerships, such as the one Brnabić is wh her partner, are not officially regnized. Addnally, same-sex upl are not allowed to adopt Febary 2019, Brnabić and her partner weled their first child via artificial sematn, acrdg to the Varadkar4/11 Cred(Peter Morrison/AP)View as articleLeo VaradkarCountry: IrelandPosn: Prime MisterTime Office: June 2017-PrentLeo Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay prime mister when he took office 2017. Jt two years earlier, he had publicly e out as gay prr to Ireland's referendum legalizg same-sex marriage.

EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY

"I am a gay man, 's not a secret, but not somethg that everyone would necsarily know, " Varadkar said, acrdg to The Irish Tim. ”Next:Xavier Bettel5/11 Cred(Geert Vann Wijngaert/AP)View as articleXavier BettelCountry: LuxembourgPosn: Prime MisterTime Office: December 2013-PrentXavier Bettel is the first openly gay prime mister of Luxembourg, a largely Roman Catholic natn. Ronlli’s appotment, a untry where homosexualy was punishable by jail until 2004, ma him the first openly LGBTQ head of state the world.

”Next:El Di Rupo7/11 Cred(BRUNO FAHY/BELGA MAG/AFP/Getty Imag)View as articleEl Di RupoCountry: BelgiumPosn: Prime MisterTime Office: December 2011-2014El Di Rupo beme Belgium’s first openly gay lear when he took office as prime mister December 2011. Di Rupo opened up about this sexualy to reporters after beg acced of havg sex and abg unrage mal, somethg he stnchly Rupo told a bgrapher that 1996, as he was beg followed by journalists, one shouted at him “They say you’re a homosexual, ” to which Di Rupo rpond: "Y.

SAN MARO APPOTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

"In 2014, at the EU-Ai summ Bssels, Di Rupo addrsed Ain and European lears, urgg them to acknowledge and rpect the rights of mori, cludg gay men and women. 1, 2009, when she beme Iceland's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of ernment.

GAY HEADS OF STATE (AS , OBLIGATE HOMOSEXUALS)

Saavedra, who also served the Spanish Senate and as mayor of Las Palmas, the pal cy of the Canary Islands, was the first openly-gay polician Spa. Saavedra did not talk about his sexualy until 2000, a year to his senate posn, when on a tour of Spa discsg a book on outg, he announced he was gay. Saavedra told El Mundo that Spa’s post-Fran society was still reprsive, “wh many homophobic habs” still the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

The NewsLatvia's Parliament on Wednday elected former foreign mister Edgars Rkevics as Print, makg him the first openly gay person to hold the posn any untry. "I am honoured and humbled to be elected as Print of the Republic of Latvia, I will do my bt to serve the people of Latvia well, " Rkevics tweeted followg the not the first openly gay head of state, Rkevics's electn marks yet another tone for LGBTQ+ MoreRkevics me out 2014, signalg on Twter his support for a "legal amework for all typ of partnerships. A urt the untry last year led that same-sex upl are entled to legal regnn, though marriage and adoptn are still exclively rerved for heterosexual View From San MaroRkevics will bee the first openly gay print, but not the first head of state.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Although right-wg figur prevail many of the untri, the general acceptance of gay rights has cid wh many of the untri jog the European Unn and embracg EU polil valu. Latvia’s parliament elected long-time Foreign Mister Edgars Rkevics as the Baltic natn’s new print, makg him the European Unn’s first openly gay head of state.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

The world’s olst republic has tablished self as among the most progrsive after namg the world’s first openly gay head of Maro, the medieval micro-state surround on all sis by the rollg hills of central Italy, has appoted 58-year-old Paolo Ronlli as one of two ptas regent, s heads of state. Luxembourg’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, and the Serbian prime mister, Ana Brnabić, unt among gay heads of ernment, but Ronlli is the first openly gay head of appotment is a signifint step for San Maro, where homosexualy was punishable by jail time until 2004. It fs to a broad trend that clus legal regnn of gay upl 2016 and legalised abortn sce last year.

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

“San Maro had prevly started on a path of a profound revolutn on the subject of rights, ” said Arcigay Rimi, a gay rights anisatn the Italian cy of Rimi, ls than 10 om San Maro. “This path, seen om the pot of view of bogged-down Italy [where an anti-homophobic vlence bill was voted down the senate last year] is astoundg. This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory.

Gay. Frerick the Great, Kg of Pssia between 1740 and 1786, was officially married to Elisabeth Christe of Bnswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, but he is nsired to have been homosexual by most historians.

LATVIAN PARLIAMENT ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF A BALTIC NATN

He had many spected relatnships wh men and wrote homoerotic poetry. After his ath, many historians tried to pass off his homosexualy as a mor, but is now wily accepted. William II, Kg of the Netherlands between 1840 and 1849 and head of ernment until the nstutnal reform of 1848, was eher gay or bisexual; he had been blackmailed bee of his sexual orientatn.

His diary, private letters, and other documents reveal his strong homosexual sir, which he stggled to supprs to rema te to the teachgs of the Catholic Church. The Prce was gay, and was listed as such a document by the Ban crimal police when he was young, but married Prcs Marie Louise of Hanover.

HISTORIC LGBTQ+ MOMENT: LATVIA ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

Gtaf V, kg of Swen between 1910 and 1950, was eher gay or bisexual. After his ath, rtranter Kurt Haijby revealed that he and the kg had a homosexual relatnship.

Canaan Banana, the first Print of Zimbabwe between 1980 and 1987, was found to be eher gay or bisexual 1997, spe his nial. San Maro, the world's olst republic, has taken another historic step this week appotg the world's first openly gay head of state: 58-year-old Paolo Ronlli.