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:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * gay leaders *
To date, there have been five openly LGBTQ+ people who have served as a natnal head of ernment, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Serbia -- but gay, bisexual, lbian, and even transgenr lears have guid natns sce time immemorial. That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn.
"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
The dictator of the cy of Athens 514, Hipparch had ma a sexual advance toward the openly gay Harmodi and was rejected multiple tim, acrdg to historian Thucydis. But history also remembers Ai of Han for his effive homosexualy. The ler of England om 1087 to 1100, Kg William II was gay, acrdg to the wrer Eadmer, though effemate mannerisms and fashn choic seemed his primary evince.
Richard the Lnheart has been picted as gay books and films, most famoly by Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter. Much of the talk of his purported homosexualy stems om the time he spent wh Kg Phillip II of France 1187. He would produce no heirs of his own and was plagued by mors of homosexualy his lifetime.