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
- 1ST US PRINT TO ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: MAKG HISTORY, OR FLOWG WH ?
- WHICH POLICIANS SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE AND WHEN?
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- KELLYANNE CONWAY ON FOX NEWS HYP DONALD TMP AS ‘FIRST PRINT TO COME TO OFFICE ALREADY IN FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE’
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* presidents who support gay marriage *
Wh this rmatn about how racist Johnson is we gather that if gay humans were allowed to be out this time perd that Andrew Johnson would surely fight their abily to have equal rights.
Born as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, this polician and amic served as the 28th Print of the Uned Stat and passed some laws that vastatgly punished a homosexual liftyle, specifilly the armed forc. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson signed the Immigratn Act of 1917 that barred dividuals emed “mentally fective” or those who displayed a “nstutnal psychopathic ferry” om enterg the Uned Stat; both of which were medil terms for homosexualy at the time. His abily to ignore what was a very real problem at the time of his princy leads to believe that he would do the same wh gay rights if they had been prevalent at the dawn of the century.
1ST US PRINT TO ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: MAKG HISTORY, OR FLOWG WH ?
“I also want to say, Donald Tmp is the first print to e to office already favor of gay marriage,” Conway noted * presidents who support gay marriage *
Many gay rights advot were upset wh Reagan’s abily to pletely ignore the AIDS epimic that had taken thoands of liv by the end of the 1980’s to which his admistratn rpond that sce homosexuals and dg addicts were dyg of the disease they were simply “gettg what they jtly serve. Almost exactly one year later Nixon went on the rerd as sayg that homosexualy led to the fall of the Ancient Greek empire and that certa more gay iendly parts of San Francis where he refed to shake hands wh rints. He has been a nstant opponent of gay rights sce his days as Governor and even let a Texas bill die that would protect Amerin cizens om hate crim agast their race, relign or sexual orientatn simply bee he did not want to protect gay and lbian Texans.
Siarly, after the Boy Suts of Ameri famoly passed a law that forced them to allow gays to their troops Bh spoke out agast the law cg that was a private anizatn that had a right to refe entry. "Hoover thought many left-leang Amerins posed a threat to the natn, and he thought the same of gay people -- even though there's reason to believe Hoover was gay himself and a long-term relatnship wh ai Cly Tolson.
WHICH POLICIANS SUPPORTED GAY MARRIAGE AND WHEN?
"Many loyal Amerins, by reason of stabily, alholism, homosexualy, or prev tennci to associate wh Communist-ont groups, are untentnally secury risks, " Ike himself wrote, although he also admted feelg guilty over his treatment of Vannberg. Civil Service Commissn lifted the orr 1975, and the Department of Defense, which had ed to ny secury clearanc to gays and lbians, gradually ceased s "tensive qutng of gays... JohnsonKennedy and Johnson may have never thought their civil rights law would be terpreted as protectg LGBT people, but Kennedy, at least, would probably approve -- his bt iend was a gay man, Lem Billgs.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
" Its Office of Civil Rights will therefore vtigate such claims, offerg a means of relief for transgenr and, to some extent, lbian, gay, and bisexual CarterCarter, who intifi as a "born-aga" Christian, is proof that ep relig fah need not go hand hand wh homophobia. In 1976, as a ndidate, he had ma clear he would sign a gay rights bill, and 1977, durg his princy, the first-ever gay and lbian legatn vised the Whe Hoe to discs policy issu wh admistratn officials.
He has famoly said, "I never knew of any word or actn of J Christ that discrimated agast anyone, " and has endorsed marriage ReaganReagan's greatt effect on the gay populatn was undoubtedly his rponse, or lack thereof, to a disease that took the liv of many gay men. Although the former actor was apparently personally fortable wh gay people, he drew much of his support om the antigay relig right, such as Jerry Falwell and his so-lled Moral Majory, and officials his admistratn clud such notor homophob as Gary Ber and Pat Buchanan.
KELLYANNE CONWAY ON FOX NEWS HYP DONALD TMP AS ‘FIRST PRINT TO COME TO OFFICE ALREADY IN FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE’
They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.