7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. 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.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

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.

“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. As Sgapore's Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday that the untry will repeal a lonial-era law crimalizg sex between men, LGBTQ+ rights activists the untry celebrated a long-sought law, which did not apply to women, had not been enforced over 15 years, but s long-standg prence ntributed to stigmatizg and discrimatg agast gay men Sgapore, activists said.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

This map urty of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersexual Associatn (ILGA) shows sexual orientatn laws across the world. "Dpe creased acceptance the past two s of LGBTQ+ rights around the world, there have also been backlash and setbacks many untri—and 67 natns part of the Uned Natns, homosexualy is still persecuted as a Countri Where It's Illegal to Be GayA map produced by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersexual Associatn (ILGA) 2020, seen above, shows the untri where homosexualy is still the report was published, Bhutan and Antigua and Barbuda crimalized nsensual same-sex sexual relatns between adults, rpectively, 2021 and half of the untri where homosexualy is still crimalized are Ai. Member stat listed above —Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Nigeria (12 northern stat only), Sdi Arabia and Yemen—ILGA has full legal certaty that homosexualy rri the ath penalty.