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- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
- WT VIRGIA REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKER OUT AS GAY
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- MEET SAM PARK, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED TO GEIA'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- GAY LAWMAKERS CREATE FIRST LGBTQ UC ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
- GAY STATE LAWMAKERS HOPE GROWTH NUMBERS HELPS HUMANIZE THEIR
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. * gay state legislators *
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. Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major Amerin is the fifth year that the stute has surveyed the natn, and total L. This hort is also the most diverse yet, thanks to the electn of the first three Black and openly gay reprentativ.
FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
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But ’s a rerd — and more than 30 years sce the state’s first openly gay legislator served. At Democrat Glen Maxey beme the first openly gay state reprentative 1991, when the HIV/AIDS epimic was ragg and the state’s law crimalizg homosexualy uld still be enforced. “In my first term, I had legislators who would jt yell out, ‘Don’t vote for the gay guy’s bill, ’” he relled.
WT VIRGIA REPUBLIN STATE LAWMAKER OUT AS GAY
First me bathroom bills, then “Don’t Say Gay.” But state lawmakers may jt be gettg started. * gay state legislators *
“And jt havg an openly gay person there who uld teract and make relatnships, or havg the symbol of the muny beg jt a regular hard-workg legislator, was a huge step forward for the muny.
Bis Garcia, the other three hmen are also the Hoe’s first woman and men who are Black and openly gay: Reps.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
At least 166 measur are pendg state legislatur across the natn that seek to ero protectns for transgenr and gay youth or to rtrict discsn of LGBTQ topics schools. * gay state legislators *
Jolanda Jon was “stunned” to know that she’s the first Black and openly gay member of the Texas Hoe, havg won a special electn May.
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.
MEET SAM PARK, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED TO GEIA'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY
” 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.
GAY LAWMAKERS CREATE FIRST LGBTQ UC ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
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.
GAY STATE LAWMAKERS HOPE GROWTH NUMBERS HELPS HUMANIZE THEIR
“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.