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.
Contents:
- CONGRS VOT TO DIFY GAY, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, OH'S PORTMAN -SPONSORG SENATE BILL
- THE MAN WHOSE LAWSU LED TO THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE IS NNG FOR THE OH HOE
- GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- JIM OBERGEFELL, FACE OF GAY MARRIAGE, TO N FOR OH HOE
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
CONGRS VOT TO DIFY GAY, TERRACIAL MARRIAGE, OH'S PORTMAN -SPONSORG SENATE BILL
Oh Republins have troduced their versn of the "Don't Say Gay" bill that also clus rtrictns agast race tn. * gay marriage in ohio 2022 *
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THE MAN WHOSE LAWSU LED TO THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE IS NNG FOR THE OH HOE
* gay marriage in ohio 2022 *
"Oh's Don't Say Gay bill is yet another sid attempt to chill and censor ee speech the classroom.
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.
GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
Gay rights advote Jim Obergefell who was the lead platiff the U.S. Supreme Court se that legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, says he’s nng for a seat the Oh legislature. * gay marriage in ohio 2022 *
”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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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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.
JIM OBERGEFELL, FACE OF GAY MARRIAGE, TO N FOR OH HOE
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Clayton County, Geia, which gay men were fired bee of their sexual orientatn, and R.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
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