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
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• FRENCH SPORTS MISTER PROMIS TO RAISE GAY PRI FLAG IF FRANCE WS THE 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP
• FRENCH MISTER CHAMPNS GAY RIGHTS AI
• WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYG FRENCH PRINT EMMANUEL MACRON IS GAY?
• GAY FRENCH MISTER TO VIS ‘LGBT-EE ZONE’ POLAND
• 25% OF ANGLO-SAXON MEN GAY, FRENCH PREMIER REPORTEDLY SAYS
• GAY FRENCH MISTER SAYS POLAND NIED HIM ACCS TO VIS UNTRY’S ‘LGBT-EE’ ZON

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!

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

”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.

CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER

“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. She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic.

Meet Leo, the openly gay, half-Indian Taoiseach (Prime Mister) of Ireland. El Di Rupo was the Prime Mister of Belgium, and the first openly gay man (and the send LGBT person) to lead a untry. One of the most strikg moments was when a journalist a media pack chasg him down the street cried, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world. As one would expect, most gay world lears have belonged to progrsive parti and pursued progrsive agendas, mirrorg the beliefs of the people that elected them. The Chilean Congrs on Wednday rejected a plat agast openly gay Edutn Mister Mar Anton Ávila that a group of nservative lawmakers filed agast him.

FRENCH SPORTS MISTER PROMIS TO RAISE GAY PRI FLAG IF FRANCE WS THE 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP

Print Gabriel Boric himself nounced and repudiated the seri of homophobic statements agast his Cabet member. Boric on Twter reerated his rejectn of the accatn agast Ávila and once aga emphasized those who brought showed “homophobic character. “Its lack of legal support and homophobic character were on display.

FRENCH MISTER CHAMPNS GAY RIGHTS AI

The Movement for Homosexual Integratn and Liberatn nmned the anti-gay statements. “The are homophobic speech that go as far as the irratnaly of sultg an thory wh child abe jt for beg gay.

Therefore, om Fundación Igual’ persepctive we celebrate that there has been a rejectn to those homophobic attacks that personally attacked Mister Ávila. Eia Schneir, a pro-ernment ngrswoman, poted out to the Bla that “the nstutnal accatn agast Mister Anton Ávila was rejected for beg an accatn whout legal grounds, based on li and homophobia. In an terview last December, Clement Bene had vowed to vis one of the homophobic Polish towns and municipali shortly after revealg he was gay.

WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYG FRENCH PRINT EMMANUEL MACRON IS GAY?

However, he revealed to L'Obs that lears Krasnick nied the French mister's requt, blamg the global panmic rather than homophobia for their cisn to turn away an official vis om a foreign diplomat. "Poland has seen a parallel rise homophobia and right-wg polics recent years.

GAY FRENCH MISTER TO VIS ‘LGBT-EE ZONE’ POLAND

But Poland's right-wg ernment led by homophobic print Andrzej Duda promptly rpond by offerg fancial support to towns which lost EU fundg. Duda was reelected last year to a send term office after mpaigng on a "Fay Card" of proposals that clud outlawg marriage equaly and preventg child adoptn by LGBTQ+ had said any vis would be not jt as a gay man but also as a mister of all people opposg bigotry and tolerance.

"I wouldn't want people to say I am fightg agast 'LGBT-ee' zon bee I am gay, " Bene said last December. RELATED | Gay Couple Mak History Gettg Intimate Polish TV Ad.

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U. ”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.

25% OF ANGLO-SAXON MEN GAY, FRENCH PREMIER REPORTEDLY SAYS

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament.

GAY FRENCH MISTER SAYS POLAND NIED HIM ACCS TO VIS UNTRY’S ‘LGBT-EE’ ZON

It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.