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
• LUXEMBOURG PM BE FIRST EU LEAR TO WED GAY LOVER
• LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY
• LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PRIME MISTER MAK HISTORIC UN SPEECH
• FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS
• LUXEMBOURG PM MARRI GAY PARTNER
• LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• LUXEMBOURG TO BEE FIRST UNTRY TO HAVE GAY PRIME MISTER AND GAY PUTY PM
• THE GAY WORLD LEARS WHO BROKE DOWN BARRIERS ON LGBT RIGHTS
• GREAT READ: LUXEMBOURG PREMIER JOS VANGUARD OF GAY LEARS
• VATIN WEL WORLD’S ONLY GAY LEAR AND HIS HBAND TO MEET THE POPE

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.

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.

LUXEMBOURG PM BE FIRST EU LEAR TO WED GAY LOVER

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“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.

LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY

Luxembourg’s prime mister is to bee the first European Unn lear – and only the send worldwi lear – to marry someone of the same Bettel, 42, and his partner, Gthier Dtenay, an archect om Belgium, are among the first gay men to wed the mostly Catholic Grand Duchy sce beme the latt EU state to extend full rights to same-sex unn five years after Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the then prime mister of Iceland, beme the first servg lear the world to marry a same-sex and Dtenay, who have been civil partners sce 2010, were expected to say their vows a quiet civil ceremony wh iends and fay, away om the glare of publicy. “He do not want to put his private life the public spotlight and he has turned down requts om the celebry magaz to ver the event, ” a iend told Agence France-Prse earlier this, who is lear of Luxembourg’s centre-right Democratic party, me out publicly as gay 2008. He has appeared alongsi Bettel at a number of official events, cludg the royal weddg of Prce Guillme and Prcs Stéphanie is known is that was Dtenay who proposed, reportedly askg for Bettel’s hand jt weeks after Luxembourg’s parliament last July beme the nth EU legislature to lift a ban on gay marriag.

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... 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.

LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PRIME MISTER MAK HISTORIC UN SPEECH

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.

FIRST GENTLEMAN OF LUXEMBOURG, WHO'S MARRIED TO WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, POS WH SPO OF WORLD LEARS

"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.

"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.

LUXEMBOURG PM MARRI GAY PARTNER

1, 2009, when she beme Iceland's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of ernment. 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. Xavier Bettel ti knot wh partner jt months after Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay marriage.

LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW

Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel has married his gay partner, beg the first lear the European Unn to enter to a same-sex unn a symbol of growg social change across the ntent. Bettel, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, tied the knot on Friday wh Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay weddgs.

As well as beg the first lear the 28-natn EU to wed a gay partner, Bettel is only the send the world after Iceland’s Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her wrer partner 2010. That is a msage sent at a time when homophobia is on the rise  Europe, ” said another iend of the uple, journalist Stephane Bern.

I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, ” he told Belgium’s RTBF public televisn. Image source, APImage ptn, PM Xavier Bettel, right, wav as he walks wh his partner Gthier Dtenay to the town hall for their marriageLuxembourg's prime mister has bee the first servg EU lear - and send lear the world - to marry a same-sex Bettel married Gthier Dtenay on Friday a private ceremony at the pal's town uple are among the first to benef after the untry changed s laws to allow gay marriag last unn after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner Bettel formed a ernment December 2013 to bee Luxembourg's first openly gay prime mister. "Former Belgian Prime Mister El di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay natnal Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an enomic fom Kazakhstan, acrdg to AFP news agency.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD

Bettel, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, will marry Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay weddgs. Former Belgian PM El di Rupo was the first openly gay man to lead a EU untry.

I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, ” he told Belgium’s RTBF public televisn. Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s gay prime mister has. reportedly ma the first speech by an openly gay lear on LGBTIQ rights at.

LUXEMBOURG TO BEE FIRST UNTRY TO HAVE GAY PRIME MISTER AND GAY PUTY PM

Later the speech Bettel said, “Beg gay is not a choice. Homophobia is a choice and we have to fight.

THE GAY WORLD LEARS WHO BROKE DOWN BARRIERS ON LGBT RIGHTS

Bettel is one of three openly gay world lears and has been.

July 19 (UPI) -- A Southern California school district that failed to adopt a state-endorsed social studi curriculum over mentn of gay rights lear Harvey Milk has been fed $1. The nservative block of board members, cludg Print Joseph Komrosky, object to the textbook over s cln of supplemental material about gay rights advote Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man elected to office the state and was assassated 1978.

GREAT READ: LUXEMBOURG PREMIER JOS VANGUARD OF GAY LEARS

Xavier Bettel and Gthier Dtenay entered a civil partnership 2010 and married 2015 after Luxembourg's legislators approved gay marriage. Prime Mister Bettel, 44, and Belgian archect Dtenay entered a civil partnership 2010 and married 2015 after Luxembourg’s legislators approved gay marriage.

Bettel beme the first openly gay Prime Mister of Luxembourg December 2013, after an electn mpaign which his sexualy was not a secret nor an issue. Bettel is the world’s only gay head of ernment sce Iceland’s former Prime Mister Johanna Sigurðardóttir, a lbian, and Belgium’s El Di Rupo fished their mandat 2013 and 2015 rpectively. “But I was not the ‘gay ndidate.

’ People didn’t vote for me bee I’m gay or I’m straight.

VATIN WEL WORLD’S ONLY GAY LEAR AND HIS HBAND TO MEET THE POPE

Others saw the vis as a “powerful msage” on the Vatin’s posn on gay rights.

Luxembourg prime mister Xavier Bettel put himself the history books on Friday (15 May) by beg the first EU ernment lear to marry someone of the same marriage - held private - symbolis how legal rights for gay cizens of the EU have advanced the past years. Sce 2001, gay marriage has bee possible jt over a third of EU untri.

In 2010, Johanna Sigurðardottir, then prime mister of Iceland, married her gay partner. A civil partnership has been legal Ireland sce 2011, but homosexualy was illegal until 1993.