KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.
Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
- BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
- WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
- NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- 'AN OUT GAY WOMAN': KARE JEAN-PIERRE HOP TO EMPOWER LGBTQ YOUTH AS WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
- JOE BIN, GAY IN
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN 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. * the president is gay *
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!
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
* the president is gay *
”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.
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
The former GP, who me out as gay 2015, is nfirmed as taoiseach Dáil ceremony Dubl * the president is gay *
Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot. “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.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.
” Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment's stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald.
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
Pete Buttigieg said "statistilly, 's almost certa," the U.S. has had a gay print. Many historians disagree * the president is gay *
Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and ng.
” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.
In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. The son of an Indian immigrant has ma Irish history by beg the untry’s youngt and first openly gay prime Varadkar, 38, was formally elected taoiseach at a nfirmatn ceremony the Dáil Dubl after he won the Fe Gael party learship earlier this month.
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * the president is gay *
Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020.
Mayor was asked how he’d rpond to crics who ll him too young, too liberal and too gay.
BARACK OBAMA: AMERI’S FIRST GAY PRINT?
I would image we’ve probably had excellent prints who were gay — we jt didn’t know which on, ” Buttigeig said. Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861. Has had a gay print–by the morn fn.
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
“It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense.
Likely already had a gay print. For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says. Has had a gay print?
OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
Even if the two had some sort of attractn to other men, they wouldn’t have intified as gay bee that notn of livg as an out gay man didn’t exist, both historians say. The term homosexual, for stance, didn’t exist until 1868.
WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
“I thk that there were always gray areas and nuanc and plenty of possibili for men the late 19th and 20th century to have sex wh other men and not nsir themselv gay, ” Clev says. But by the standard of morn gay inty, no print would f to that tegory. ” Both Balcerski and Clev say gay inty needs to be seen through the lens of the era.
“Did Jam Buchanan or Abraham Lln intify as gay the morn sense of the term?
The 19th century was an era before homosexualy was medilly classified as a disorr or perversn.
NEWSWEEK VER: OBAMA ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
“I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. Balcerski says ’s important to chronicle gay history, but he says popular theori about the lik of Buchanan and Lln are too simplistic. “As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says.
Pri is a time to rell the trials the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny has endured and to rejoice the triumphs of trailblazg dividuals who have bravely fought — and ntue to fight — for full equaly. BIDEN JR., Print of the Uned Stat of Ameri, by virtue of the thory vted me by the Constutn and the laws of the Uned Stat, do hereby proclaim June 2021 as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month.
'AN OUT GAY WOMAN': KARE JEAN-PIERRE HOP TO EMPOWER LGBTQ YOUTH AS WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay Print?
"Barack Obama: Ameri’s First Gay Print? Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay U. On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today.
JOE BIN, GAY IN
WATCH: Is Ameri Ready to Elect a Gay Print?
“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said. LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns. The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man.
“If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton. Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. “If elected, you would be the first openly gay print of the Uned Stat, ” Stephen Colbert said to Pete Buttigieg after the mayor of South Bend, Ind., clared his ndidacy.