The Saeima elected Edgars Rkēvičs, the ndidate put forward by the centre-right New Uny, as Print of Latvia. Rkēvičs was elected the third round of votg, wh 52 vot favour, and 35 agast (surpassg the 51 vot required for a simple majory). Rkēvičs be Latvia’s first openly gay Print and was the first proment polil figure Latvia to e out as gay 2014.
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- GAY LATVIA TRAVEL GUI
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY MAN ELECTED AS PRINT OF LATVIA
- LATVIA IS WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EU, X SHOWS
- EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY
- LATVIA ELECTS EDGARS RKEVICS AS PRINT – THE FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE EUROPE
- GAY LATVIAN MAN DI AFTER 'HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK', MPAIGNERS SAY
- THE BEST LATVIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LATVIA
- GAY RIGA
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” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.
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”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!
”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.
EU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE ELECTED BY LATVIAN ASSEMBLY
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“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. Latvia has elected a gay man, Edgars Rkēvičs, as print, a first for Baltic natns and the European Latvia, as many other natns wh parliamentary systems, the print is elected by Parliament and serv a largely ceremonial role as head of state. Rkēvičs will be gurated July 8 for a four-year Your Se ArticlRsian Authori Deta Gay Refugee, Activists Fear He's Beg Tortured ›Pri Paras Csed Rsia-Ukrae War, Says Rsian Church Lear ›Put Claims 'Gay Nazis' Behd Ukraian Unrt ›Even Durg War, Ukrae's Zelensky Works to Advance LGBTQ+ Rights ›The Legacy of the World's First Out Lbian Prime Mister ›Lbian Prime Mister Appoted Serbia ›A Lbian Prime Mister Overse a New Gay Era for Serbia ›Gay Irish Prime Mister Weled at Whe Hoe for St.
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LATVIA ELECTS EDGARS RKEVICS AS PRINT – THE FIRST OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE EUROPE
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Latvia, Lhuania and Poland have been ranked the three worst plac EU to be an LGBTI cizen, acrdg an x by the gay rights anisatn ILGA. The Rabow Europe 2016 x, published on Tuday (10 May), examed the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex people across Europe based on how laws and polici affect the cizens and ranked 49 European natns acrdgly. In Lhuania, many LGBTI-iendly events took place 2015, and Vilni’ mayor is favour of hostg the pal’s first gay pri 2016.
GAY LATVIAN MAN DI AFTER 'HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK', MPAIGNERS SAY
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The executive director at ILGA-Europe also lashed out at the European Commissn and Vice-Print Frans Timmermans, who is also charge of EU Fundamental Rights, for not dog enough to bat homophobic and transphobic vlence. Photographer: Gts Ivkans/AFP/Getty ImagLatvia’s parliament elected long-time Foreign Mister Edgars Rkevics as the Baltic natn’s new print, makg him the European Unn’s first openly gay head of state. Up NextEU’s First Openly Gay Head of State Elected by Latvian Assembly.
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Edgars Rkēvičs Has been elected Print of Latvia, beg the first openly gay head of state Europe. Latvia has elected a new print – makg history the first openly gay head of state Europe. Rkēvičs publicly me out as gay November 2014, postg on Twter: “I proudly announce I am gay… Good luck all of you.
I proudly announce I'am gay… Good luck all of you…— Edgars Rkēvičs (@edgarsrkevics) November 6, 2014. He signed off wh the hashtag #Proudtobegay.
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Haven’t there been other openly gay lears Europe?
There have been other openly gay people elected to posns of power their untri but as prime mister rather than print, cludg Ireland’s Leo Varadkar, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and Serbia’s Ana Brnabić.
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The ath of a gay man Latvia due to severe burns has prompted a nversatn about homophobia the untry. A gay Latvian man died on Wednday after sufferg severe burns what LGBT associatns nounced as a homophobic attack. He had prevly received homophobic threats and had moved om Riga to Tums, a quiet town 70 kilometr wt of the pal, acrdg to lol prs lol police did not le out the possibily of suici bee of the threats he received.
Latvia's Print Egils Levs tweeted: "There is no place for hatred Latvia, " addg that if was nfirmed to be a homophobic attack, the crimal would be more guilty. 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