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.
Contents:
- IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND'S GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM TO BE HELD IN 2015
- HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- IRELAND VOT Y TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IN HISTORIC REFERENDUM
- Y OR NO? IRELAND CIS WHETHER TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- ‘IRELAND MIGHT JT HAVE BEE A GREAT LTLE UNTRY WHICH TO BE GAY’
IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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For the world, suggted how far the gay rights movement has e, to make such a signifint step a untry wh a storied history as a relig stronghold. “Throughout my youth, adolcence and young adulthood, was a crimal offense to be gay, ” said David Norris, a 70-year-old Irish senator and longtime said he had faced “total isolatn” as a young man.
IRELAND'S GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM TO BE HELD IN 2015
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One opposn mercial said, “You should be able to have rervatns about gay marriage whout beg lled a homophobe, ” while a mercial supportg same-sex marriage featured young people enuragg their parents to vote. Ireland’s paradigm shift om a quasi theocracy to a lear on gay rights was the rult of a staed mpaign by gay activists.
HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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“Commentators jt don’t seem to have grasped that this has been the culmatn of a 10-year mpaign to change attus this untry, ” said Colm O’Gorman, chief executive of Amnty Internatnal (Ireland) and a leadg gay rights mpaigner. “The personal stori of people’s own ttimoni, as to their difficulti growg up beg gay certaly stck a chord wh people, ” said Jim Walsh, an Irish senator who opposed the marriage referendum, durg a televisn terview.
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IRELAND VOT Y TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IN HISTORIC REFERENDUM
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As is the se many other untri around the world, the issue is a polarizg one Ireland, a untry that didn’t crimalize homosexualy until the 1990s. Gay and lbian upl will now be able to enter to civil marriage, which “is different and distct om relig marriage, ” acrdg to Y Equaly, the umbrella group that spearhead the mpaign.
“No relig stutn n be forced to marry a lbian or gay uple agast their beliefs, ” the group’s webse says.
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.
Y OR NO? IRELAND CIS WHETHER TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
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” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. 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.
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.
‘IRELAND MIGHT JT HAVE BEE A GREAT LTLE UNTRY WHICH TO BE GAY’
“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.
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