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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- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
- THIS TMP SPOKPERSON IS GAY — AND HE DON’T CARE IF THAT MAK THE LEFT MAD
- BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
- BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
- TMP BAFFLGLY SAYS IT’S “GREAT HONOR” TO BE “MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERI”
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2022
Was his close iendship wh William Ruf Kg jt that, or was evince that he was the natn's first gay chief executive? * president gay instagram *
Durg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri Month, we reflect on the progrs we have ma as a Natn the fight for jtice, cln, and equaly while reaffirmg our mment to do more to support LGBTQI+ rights at home and abroad. I am honored by the service of the first openly gay Cabet Secretary and the first transgenr person nfirmed by the Senate and to have been able to tablish the first Whe Hoe Genr Policy Council. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2022 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Pri Month.
This month, Pri flags are flyg — as some of my iends our last adm- — the Obama-Bin admistratn who are openly gay — they are flyg more than — over 130 U. When a same-sex uple n be married the morng but nied a lease the afternoon for beg gay, somethg is still wrong.
THIS TMP SPOKPERSON IS GAY — AND HE DON’T CARE IF THAT MAK THE LEFT MAD
Tmp's puty prs secretary Judd Deere on what 's like to be gay and speak for the print who ph anti-LGBTQ polici. * president gay instagram *
Google Jam Buchanan and you evably disver the assertn that Amerin history has clared him to be the first gay print. It don’t take much longer to disver that the popular unrstandg of Jam Buchanan as our natn’s first gay print riv om his relatnship wh one man particular: William Ruf DeVane Kg of Alabama. In the sh to make new meang of the past, I have e to unrstand why today has bee rigr to nsir Buchanan our first gay print.
But by then, an unrstandg of homosexualy as a sexual inty and orientatn had begun to take hold among the general public. ” In the November 1987 issue of Penthoe Magaze, New York gossip lumnist Sharon Churcher noted the fdg an article headled “Our First Gay Print, Out of the Closet, Fally. Updike creatively imaged the boardghoe life of Buchanan and Kg, but he admted to fdg few “trac of homosexual passn.
This leav today wh the popular nceptn of Jam Buchanan as our first gay print. Centuri of reprsn of homosexualy the Uned Stat has erased untls number of Amerins om the story of LGBT history. More than anythg else, this impulse explas why Amerins have transformed Jam Buchanan to our first gay print.
BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
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Worse still, movg Buchanan and Kg om iends to lovers blocks the way for a person today to assume the proper mantle of beg our first gay print. A few Saturdays ago at the Washgton, DC, pri para, Judd Deere was jt one of the gays.
When a small ntgent of gay Republins marched the para, they were greeted wh loud other Pri-goers known who Deere is, he might have been booed himself. Deere is not only a gay Republin but also a proment Wt Wg ai to the print of the Uned Stat. “The dividuals that I work wh this buildg don't treat me any differently bee I'm gay, ” Deere said an exclive terview wh BuzzFeed News, addg that he works wh the print personally many tim a week, and “he don't treat me any differently bee I'm gay, ” eher.
BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
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” Still, “I don’t walk to the Whe Hoe every day and say, ‘I’m Judd Deere; I’m gay. ’”The fact that gay men n rise through the ranks the Whe Hoe, Deere argu, prov the print lik LGBTQ people (spe a lany of polici and posns that target them workplac, hospals, shops, homels shelters, and more) had prevly served as a spokperson the Arkansas attorney general’s office when asked urts to block same-sex parents om listg both of their nam on a child’s birth certifite and to strike down Fayetteville’s LGBTQ nondiscrimatn ordance. Other gay men the admistratn clu Ric Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, who has ma a brand as a brash, openly gay Tmp loyalist.
But prr to this terview, Deere had been low-key about his own ascent, even as he helped release the print’s LGBTQ pri statement, which cricized other untri for executg gay rise of some gays Tmp’s orb tracks wh a trend of growg ndnal acceptance wh nservative circl, such as events featurg gay men held at the Metropolan Republin Club New York Cy and the Capol Hill Club DC.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
The ostracizg and icky smears of yore about homosexuals beg diseased and immoral have largely given way to limed social tolerance.
Conservativ n be fe havg gay Republins around — particularly whe gay men, who reflect the same bloc that mak up Tmp’s whe male base.
The gay people enjoy a retractable leash that giv them accs to social works and power — as long as they share other Republin prri, like a borr wall and gun rights, and don’t dwell on their sexualy or gay rights. In this arrangement, nservativ n be acmodatg to gay people, provid remas legal to discrimate agast opportuni are rarely, if ever, afford to transgenr people, whom nservative mpaigns still sometim portray as dangero sex predators and sickly head s. While Deere was at DC pri, a reporter for the Daily Caller, a nservative media outf, was also there filmg a vio and askg atten, “What do you thk is the biggt threat to gay rights Ameri today?
TMP BAFFLGLY SAYS IT’S “GREAT HONOR” TO BE “MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERI”
They tend to tweeze out Tmp’s LGBTQ-iendly gtur and display them like Baby Simba while sweepg the rt unr the the relig right, many gay Republins fear that LGBTQ laws entail repercsns (hamperg relig liberty, allowg transgenr women to pete women’s sports) and are largely unnecsary — gay Amerins aren’t persecuted and killed like gay people other untri. Asked what Tmp has done specifilly to support the rights of LGBTQ Amerins, Deere noted, “He's lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy. “That's bee I don't agree wh them 100% on all issu — they thk that I'm the wrong bee I'm a Republin who also happens to be gay.
Brazilian ernor Eduardo Lee was met wh a mixed receptn after g out as gay amid his 2022 printial n. While the admissn mak him the untry’s first-ever openly gay printial ndidate, crics blasted Lee’s prev support of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s homophobic, far-right, a ndidate reprentg the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic party (PSDB) next year’s electns, opened up about his sexual orientatn for the first time a Thursday terview wh TV Globo, the untry’s largt televisn work. At 36, he is the natn’s youngt ernor to be currently servg office, and his g out mak him the first openly gay man to be ernor of a Brazilian his terview, Lee clarified that se himself as “a ernor who is gay, not a gay ernor.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
”Many proment figur Brazil appld Lee for takg a stand agast homophobia and makg history the procs. Fabiano Contarato, who beme the first openly gay reprentative the Brazilian Senate 2018, thanked the ernor for his “bravery” a Thursday tweet. “I’m not nng to be the gay print of the Uned Stat, or the print of the gay Uned Stat, ” Buttigieg said.
Democratic printial hopeful and former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg said Monday durg a CNN town hall that he wants to serve the entire untry as print and not jt be “the gay print of the Uned Stat.
“I’m not nng to be the gay print of the Uned Stat, or the print of the gay Uned Stat, ” Buttigieg said while speakg wh CNN host Don Lemon durg the event Charlton, S.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Pete Buttigieg: “I’m not nng to be the gay print of the Uned Stat, or the print of the gay Uned Stat. Buttigieg, who has ma history as the first openly gay major Democratic printial ndidate, also spoke about a recent mpaign rally Denver where a 9-year-old boy asked him for advice on how to e out as a gay male.