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

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“Payton's possibly a homosexual, ” says Astrid Sloan (Lucy Boynton) durg a particularly heated moment oppose Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) the new Netflix seri The Polician. In Season 1, a gay man’s an was impaled wh a fireplace poker.

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“I hontly don't unrstand why llg that gay man a ‘buttmunch’ was such a sndal, ” Lange’s character, Dty Jackson, says to her granddghter as they de on ee pasta.

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That's what gays do: munch butts and celebrate Halloween! ”Lange, the two-time Osr-wng actor whose reer found new energy on televisn after appearg AHS, told BuzzFeed News at a prs panel that queer pop culture is “built- om the get-go” Murphy’s when asked how she felt beg touted as a gay in thanks to her work wh Murphy, she replied, “Wasn’t I before?

I’ve thk I’ve always been a gay in. 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.

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” 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.

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

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