Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told his Hungarian unterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday that Budapt was beg discrimatory and stigmatizg wh s new law banng om schools materials emed to promote homosexualy.
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- LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY
- LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
- LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY
- LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PM XAVIER BETTEL BLASTS HUNGARY AND VIKTOR ORBáN OVER ‘SHAMEFUL’ ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS
- LUXEMBOURG PM MARRI GAY PARTNER
- LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PM SLAMS ORBáN OVER LGBT LAW
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
LUXEMBOURG PM IS FIRST OPENLY GAY EU LEAR TO MARRY
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Bettel, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, will marry Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay weddgs. Former Belgian PM El di Rupo was the first openly gay man to lead a EU untry. I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, ” he told Belgium’s RTBF public televisn.
Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERSBRUSSELS, June 24 (Rters) - Luxembourg's gay Prime Mister Xavier Bettel told his Hungarian unterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday that Budapt was beg discrimatory and stigmatizg wh s new law banng om schools materials emed to promote homosexualy. Dpe cricism om rights groups and polil opposn Hungary, Orban said on Thursday ahead of talks wh his EU peers Bssels that the new bill, which bans the distributn schools of material seen as promotg homosexualy or genr change, was already, who is an advote of gay rights and sometim travels wh his hband to official state viss, said he would challenge Orban over the ntent law durg their meetg.
"To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people - 's not realisg that beg gay is not a choice, " Bettel said.
LUXEMBOURG GAY PM BLASTS 'STIGMATIZG' NEW HUNGARIAN LAW
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I am gog to tell him that what he is dog his untry is tolerant and that beg gay is not a choice.
"The most difficult thg for me was to accept myself when I realised that I was love wh a person of my sex, was how to say to my parents, how to say to my fay, " he said, strsg that young homosexuals are prone to suici if they fail to embrace who they are, e out and live their liv.
Conflatg homosexualy wh paedophilia or pornography was wrong, as was stigmatizg people, he said, addg tongue--cheek that himself beg gay did not pose any danger to anyone. "Bettel also took a jibe at Orban remdg of Jozsef Szajer, who ed to be a proment voice of Hungary's lg Fisz party the European Parliament and played an stmental role rewrg Hungary's nstutn a more nservative he rigned last December over attendg Bssels a gay sex party, which got bted for vlatg COVID-19 rtrictns and which Szajer tried to pe by clamberg down a gutter before beg ught by the police.
LUXEMBOURG PM XAVIER BETTEL FIRST GAY EUROPEAN UNN LEAR TO MARRY
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Image source, APImage ptn, PM Xavier Bettel, right, wav as he walks wh his partner Gthier Dtenay to the town hall for their marriageLuxembourg's prime mister has bee the first servg EU lear - and send lear the world - to marry a same-sex Bettel married Gthier Dtenay on Friday a private ceremony at the pal's town uple are among the first to benef after the untry changed s laws to allow gay marriag last unn after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner Bettel formed a ernment December 2013 to bee Luxembourg's first openly gay prime mister. "Former Belgian Prime Mister El di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay natnal Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an enomic fom Kazakhstan, acrdg to AFP news agency.
Luxembourg’s prime mister is to bee the first European Unn lear – and only the send worldwi lear – to marry someone of the same Bettel, 42, and his partner, Gthier Dtenay, an archect om Belgium, are among the first gay men to wed the mostly Catholic Grand Duchy sce beme the latt EU state to extend full rights to same-sex unn five years after Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the then prime mister of Iceland, beme the first servg lear the world to marry a same-sex and Dtenay, who have been civil partners sce 2010, were expected to say their vows a quiet civil ceremony wh iends and fay, away om the glare of publicy. “He do not want to put his private life the public spotlight and he has turned down requts om the celebry magaz to ver the event, ” a iend told Agence France-Prse earlier this, who is lear of Luxembourg’s centre-right Democratic party, me out publicly as gay 2008.
LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PM XAVIER BETTEL BLASTS HUNGARY AND VIKTOR ORBáN OVER ‘SHAMEFUL’ ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS
He has appeared alongsi Bettel at a number of official events, cludg the royal weddg of Prce Guillme and Prcs Stéphanie is known is that was Dtenay who proposed, reportedly askg for Bettel’s hand jt weeks after Luxembourg’s parliament last July beme the nth EU legislature to lift a ban on gay marriag. Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel married his gay partner on Friday, beg the first European Unn lear to enter to a same-sex unn a symbol of growg social change across the, 42, a centre-right polician who beme premier 2013, tied the knot wh Gthier Dtenay, a Belgian archect, jt months after the nservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay prime mister, wearg a navy blue su, and his partner, drsed a dark grey su, held hands as they arrived for the low key ceremony at the Luxembourg town hall, where around 100 well-wishers appld them. "Thank you to all Luxembourgers, " Bettel said after the ceremony, as the crowd threw rice and nfetti over the happy well as beg the first lear the 28-natn EU to wed a gay partner, Bettel is only the send the world after Iceland's prime mister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her wrer partner 2010.
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That is a msage sent at a time when homophobia is on the rise Europe, " add the 39-year-old Michel.
I uld have had relatns wh someone of the other sex while havg homosexual relatns secret, " he told Belgium's RTBF public televisn. Prime Mister of the Luxemburg Xavier Bettel, who is gay, has lled out Hungary for s anti-LGBTQ+ law (Photo by Pier Mar Tac/Getty Imag). Luxembourg’s openly gay prime mister Xavier Bettel has takg aim at the lear of Hungary for the untry’s anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn.
Acrdg to Euronews, he add that anyone the parliament who “thks you bee homosexual by watchg TV… by listeng to a song, then you prove you have unrstood nothg. “The most difficult [thg] for a homosexual is to accept himself. After the Child Protectn Act passed, he was quoted as sayg that he did not jt wake up one day after watchg some advertisg or Morn Fay and sudnly bee gay.
LUXEMBOURG’S GAY PM SLAMS ORBáN OVER LGBT LAW
Luxembourg prime mister Xavier Bettel put himself the history books on Friday (15 May) by beg the first EU ernment lear to marry someone of the same marriage - held private - symbolis how legal rights for gay cizens of the EU have advanced the past years.
Sce 2001, gay marriage has bee possible jt over a third of EU untri.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
In 2010, Johanna Sigurðardottir, then prime mister of Iceland, married her gay partner.
A civil partnership has been legal Ireland sce 2011, but homosexualy was illegal until 1993.