This chart shows past and prent openly gay heads of state as of June 2017.
Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- SAN MARO APPOTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY WORLD LEARS ARE STILL EXTREMELY RARE
- GAY HEADS OF STATE (AS , OBLIGATE HOMOSEXUALS)
- POPE MEETS WORLD’S FIRST GAY MARRIED HEAD OF STATE AND HIS HBAND
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory. Openly LGBT people have served as natnal heads of state or ernment Belgium, Iceland, Irela * list of gay heads of state *
List of openly LGBT heads of state and ernment - WikiMili, The Bt Wikipedia RearLast updated July 24, 2023This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory.
Heads of state Heads of ernment Sub-natnal lears Others See also Referenc Heads of stateNamePortraCountryNatnal populatn(while office)OfficePolil partyMandate startMandate endTerm lengthSexual orientatn/genr inty Paolo Ronlli San Maro 33, 627 (2021 timate) Capta Regent RETE Movement 1 April 20221 October 2022183 days Gay [1] Edgars Rkēvičs Latvia 1, 827, 533 (2023 timate) Print Uny 8 July 2023Incumbent15 daysGay [2] [3] Heads of ernmentNamePortraCountryNatnal populatn(while office)OfficePolil partyMandate startMandate endTerm lengthSexual orientatn/genr inty Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Iceland 315, 556 (2011 cens) Prime Mister Social Democratic Alliance 1 Febary 200923 May 20134 years, 111 days Lbian [4] El Di Rupo Belgium 11, 000, 638 (2011 cens) Prime Mister Socialist Party 6 December 201111 October 20142 years, 309 days Gay [5] Xavier Bettel Luxembourg 660, 804 (2023 timate) Prime Mister Democratic Party 4 December 2013Incumbent9 years, 231 daysGay [6] Leo Varadkar Ireland 4, 761, 865 (2016 cens) Taoiseach Fe Gael 14 June 201727 June 20203 years, 13 daysGay [7] 17 December 2022Incumbent218 days Ana Brnabić Serbia 6, 926, 705 (2020 timate) Print of the Government Serbian Progrsive Party 29 June 2017Incumbent6 years, 24 daysLbian [8] Some openly LGBT persons have also served as puty prime misters, or an analogo office, who may take the posn of the actg head of ernment when they are temporarily absent. NamePortraCountryNatnal populatn(while office)OfficePolil partyMandate startMandate endTerm lengthSexual orientatn/genr inty Etienne Schneir Luxembourg 604, 245 (2018 timate) Deputy Prime Mister of Luxembourg Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 4 December 20134 Febary 20206 years, 62 daysGay Guido Wterwelle Germany 80, 200, 000 (2011 cens) Vice-Chancellor of Germany Free Democratic Party 28 October 200916 May 20111 year, 200 daysGay Petra De Sutter Belgium 11, 492, 641 (2020 timate) Deputy Prime Mister of Belgium Groen 1 October 2020Incumbent2 years, 295 days Trans woman Grant Robertson New Zealand 5, 136, 220 (2022 timate) Deputy Prime Mister of New Zealand Labour 6 November 202025 January 20232 years, 80 daysGaySub-natnal lears Denot cumbent head of sub-natnal ernmentNamePortraEntyCountryOfficePolil partyMandate startMandate endTerm lengthSexual orientatn/genr inty Don Dunstan South Atralia Atralia Premier Labor 1 June 196717 April 1968321 days Bisexual 2 June 197015 Febary 19798 years, 258 days Jerónimo Saavedra [lower-alpha 1] Canary Islands Spa Print Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 29 November 19824 July 19874 years, 217 days Gay 11 July 19912 April 19931 year, 265 days Gtavo Álvarez Garazábal Valle l C Colombia Governor Inpennt 1 January 199827 July 19991 year, 207 days El Di Rupo Wallonia Belgium Mister-Print Socialist Party 15 July 19994 April 2000264 daysGay6 October 200520 July 20071 year, 287 days13 September 2019Incumbent3 years, 313 days Jan Franssen South Holland Netherlands Kg's Commissner People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 3 May 20001 January 201413 years, 243 daysGay Bertrand Delanoë Paris France Mayor Socialist Party 25 March 20015 April 201413 years, 11 days Kls Wowere Berl Germany Governg Mayor Social Democratic Party of Germany 16 June 200111 December 201413 years, 178 days Ole von Bst Hamburg Germany First Mayor Christian Democratic Unn of Germany 31 October 200125 Augt 20108 years, 298 days Jim McGreevey New Jersey Uned Stat Governor Democratic Party 15 January 200215 November 20042 years, 305 days Nichi Vendola Apulia Italy Print Communist Refoundatn Party 4 April 20051 June 201510 years, 58 days Clemens Cornielje Gelrland Netherlands Kg's Commissner People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 31 Augt 20056 Febary 201913 years, 159 days Lynne Brown Wtern Cape South Ai Premier Ain Natnal Congrs 25 July 20086 May 2009315 days Lbian Allan Bell Isle of Man Uned Kgdom Chief Mister Inpennt11 October 20114 October 20164 years, 359 daysGay Mart Klöti St.
Gallen Swzerland Member of the Executive Council The Liberals 1 June 201231 May 20207 years, 365 days Rosar Crocetta Sicily Italy Print Democratic Party 10 November 201218 November 20175 years, 8 days Kathleen Wynne Ontar Canada Premier Liberal Party 11 Febary 201329 June 20185 years, 116 daysLbian Andrew Barr Atralian Capal Terrory Atralia Chief Mister Labor 11 December 2014Incumbent8 years, 224 daysGay Kate Brown Oregon Uned Stat Governor Democratic Party 18 Febary 20159 January 20237 years, 325 daysBisexual Wa MacLchlan Prce Edward Island Canada Premier Liberal Party 23 Febary 20159 May 20194 years, 75 daysGay Nila Ekanayake Central Provce Sri Lanka Governor Inpennt17 March 201611 April 20182 years, 25 days Trans woman Sabaragamuwa Provce Governor 12 April 201831 December 2018263 days Arno Brok Friland Netherlands Kg's Commissner People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1 March 2017Incumbent6 years, 144 daysGay Eduardo Lee R Gran do Sul Brazil Governor Brazilian Social Democracy Party 1 January 201931 March 20223 years, 89 days1 January 2023Incumbent203 days Fátima Bezerra R Gran do Norte Brazil Governor Workers' Party 1 January 2019Incumbent4 years, 203 daysLbian Jared Polis Colorado Uned Stat Governor Democratic Party 8 January 2019Incumbent4 years, 196 daysGay Gtavo Melella Tierra l Fuego Argenta Governor FORJA Concertatn Party 17 December 2019Incumbent3 years, 218 days Cldia López Hernánz Bogotá Colombia Mayor Green Alliance 1 January 2020Incumbent3 years, 203 daysLbian Mra Healey Massachetts Uned Stat Governor Democratic Party 5 January 2023Incumbent199 days Ta Kotek Oregon Uned Stat Governor Democratic Party 9 January 2023Incumbent195 days ↑ Publicly me out after retirement, although while beg a senator. OthersPolicians who were closeted while office and never officially me out or were outed only after their aths or retirement clu: Frerick the Great, Kg of Pssia between 1740 and 1786, was officially married to Elisabeth Christe of Bnswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, but he is nsired to have been homosexual by most historians.
SAN MARO APPOTS WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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. * list of gay heads of state *
William II, Kg of the Netherlands between 1840 and 1849 and head of ernment until the nstutnal reform of 1848, was eher gay or bisexual; he had been blackmailed bee of his sexual orientatn. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons Uganda face severe legal challeng, active discrimatn, state persecutn and stigmatisatn not experienced by non-LGBT rints.
Both male and female homosexual activy is illegal print of Latvia is head of state and manr--chief of the Natnal Armed Forc of the Republic of ordatn of lbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgenr (LGBT) clergy who are open about their sexualy or genr inty; are sexually active if lbian, gay, or bisexual; or are mted same-sex relatnships is a bated practice wh some ntemporary Christian is a Timele of LGBT history the Uned Kgdom. The post-Stonewall nservativ' social views, though generally nservative too, at the same time reflect a self-termatn-stemmed and more recent soc-historil "gay-affirmatn" on issu like marriage equaly for same-sex upl, gay fay regnn, civic equaly generally for LGBT people society, and also a posive role for (gay-affirmg) relign LGBT life, though there is not plete unanimy of opn among them on all issu, pecially those regardg the dynamics and polics of the closet and "inty management, " and var legal and polil issu The first term n clu LGBT people who are actually opposed to same-sex marriage or other LGBTQ rights while the send term, ntrastgly, ually refers to self-affirmg gay people who unequivolly favor marriage as a legal stutn for both hetero- and homosexuals and who simultaneoly prefer enomic and polil nservatism more generally.
The number of self-affirmg LGBT advot for nservative ias and polici beme more apparent only after the advent of the morn LGBT civil rights movement the 1970s even as many gay nservativ then did rema closeted areas where (antigay) socially nservative policians led the most anized opposn to LGBT rights.
GAY WORLD LEARS ARE STILL EXTREMELY RARE
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * list of gay heads of state *
The Uned Kgdom's policy is to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) personnel to serve openly, and discrimatn on a sexual orientatn basis is forbidn. All personnel are subject to the same l agast sexual harassment, regardls of genr or sexual history of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people (LGBT) Rsia and s historil antecents has largely been fluenced by the polil leangs of s lers.
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. 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.
”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. “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.
GAY HEADS OF STATE (AS , OBLIGATE HOMOSEXUALS)
Paolo Ronlli named as one of two ptas regent untry makg stris on gay rights * list of gay heads of state *
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.
POPE MEETS WORLD’S FIRST GAY MARRIED HEAD OF STATE AND HIS HBAND
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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. 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.
”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. ”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.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
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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. This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory. Frerick the Great, Kg of Pssia between 1740 and 1786, was officially married to Elisabeth Christe of Bnswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, but he is nsired to have been homosexual by most historians.
Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L. The world’s olst republic has tablished self as among the most progrsive after namg the world’s first openly gay head of Maro, the medieval micro-state surround on all sis by the rollg hills of central Italy, has appoted 58-year-old Paolo Ronlli as one of two ptas regent, s heads of state. Luxembourg’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, and the Serbian prime mister, Ana Brnabić, unt among gay heads of ernment, but Ronlli is the first openly gay head of appotment is a signifint step for San Maro, where homosexualy was punishable by jail time until 2004.
“San Maro had prevly started on a path of a profound revolutn on the subject of rights, ” said Arcigay Rimi, a gay rights anisatn the Italian cy of Rimi, ls than 10 om San Maro. It was found 301 and is home to nearly 35, 000 electn marks a hugely progrsive step for San Maro, where up until 2004 homosexualy was a crime punishable by prison time.
MEET THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
In a first for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has received openly gay head of state Xavier Bettel and his hband at the Vatin. * list of gay heads of state *
What is pecially historic, however, is that Ireland's new Taoiseach (equivalent to prime mister) Leo Varadkar is now the youngt lear the untry's history and the first to be openly gay, That's an enormo achievement for a untry where homosexualy was illegal ltle more than two s ago. NewsletterSign up for our email newsletter for the latt science newsSo, I jt found out that Sayyed Qaboos b Sa'id Al 'Bu Sa'id, the Sultan and tocrat of Oman, is a homosexual.
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SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.
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List of openly LGBT heads of state and ernment From Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory. 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 grand de of Tny om 1621 until 1670, Ferdando married and produced children, but also quarreled wh his mother, Maria Madla of Atria, about whether homosexualy should be outlawed. In addn to beg the first openly gay prime mister of the island natn, the 38-year-old was the youngt head of ernment for the untry and the first member of an ethnic mory to hold the post (his father is an Indian immigrant). Other lbian and gay transn team members clu Michael Gut on the State Department team, Jeff Marootian on the Department of Transportatn team, Kathleen Hartt and Lynn Rosenthal on the Jtice Department team, and Kei Koizumi on the Natnal Science Foundatn and Office of Science and Technology Policy team.
Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, for the Department of Health and Human Servic; Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first openly gay Democratic printial ndidate, for ambassador to the Uned Natns; and Massachetts Attorney General Mra Healey, the first openly gay attorney general, for U. Randi Wegarten, print of the Amerin Feratn of Teachers, who is a lbian, is on the group’s list as a potential choice to lead the Edutn Department, as is Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, the first openly gay and first Latx mayor of Long Beach. In 2017, Bostic ma history as the first Black man and first openly gay man to lead a regnal bank for the Feral Rerve when he was chosen to bee the print of the Feral Rerve Bank of Atlanta.
Contents 1Heads of state 2Heads of ernment 3Sub-natnal lears 4Others 5See also 6Referenc This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT) people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory. Openly LGBT people have served as natnal heads of sta... * list of gay heads of state *
"I am honoured and humbled to be elected as Print of the Republic of Latvia, I will do my bt to serve the people of Latvia well, " Rkevics tweeted followg the not the first openly gay head of state, Rkevics's electn marks yet another tone for LGBTQ+ MoreRkevics me out 2014, signalg on Twter his support for a "legal amework for all typ of partnerships. A urt the untry last year led that same-sex upl are entled to legal regnn, though marriage and adoptn are still exclively rerved for heterosexual View From San MaroRkevics will bee the first openly gay print, but not the first head of state. 5 of the most powerful LGBT policians the world: om Joe Bin’s bet pick Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and the gay prime misters of Serbia and LuxembourgJt a few s ago would have been all but nceivable for a polician – or any official a posn of power – to publicly e out as gay or lbian.
Photo: AFPFormerly the celebrated mayor of South Bend, Indiana, om 2012-2020, Pete Buttigieg went on to n a mendable mpaign durg the Democratic Party’s race to fd their 2020 printial ndidate – markg the first n for US print by an openly gay person. As mister of health the most populo untry Europe, Spahn has achieved even greater promence and favour among thanks to his role the Bunstag’s rponse to the ronavis openly gay polician was even recently rated Germany’s most-popular polician, otg long-nng chancellor Angela Merkel om this married his hband, journalist Daniel Funke, an timate 2017 Robertson, New Zealand, puty prime misterGrant Robertson Augt, 2020. Among the latter, she chose the openly gay Grant Robertson as her puty prime mister, wh him retag his prev fance mister role along wh other portfols on Bettel, Luxembourg, prime misterLuxembourg’s Prime Mister Xavier Bettel arriv for a European Unn lears summ Bssels, Belgium June 2019.
This is a list of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, or trans people who have been the head of state or ernment of a untry or a subnatnal divisn such as a state, a provce, or a terrory. Openly LGBT people have served as natnal heads of state or ernment Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, San Maro, and Serbia. * list of gay heads of state *
Photo: RtersIn 2018 the cumbent prime mister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg beme the first openly gay prime mister world history to be elected for a send married archect Gthier Dtenay 2015, the year Luxembourg legalised same-sex Brnabić, Serbia, prime misterSerbia’s then public admistratn and lol ernment mister Ana Brnabic Augt 2016.
When Edgars Rkevics tak offic, he will bee the world's first openly gay print. * list of gay heads of state *