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:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI
- THIS OPENLY GAY EQUALY CHAMP IS THE FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT PM
- #EP77 IRELAND'S FAVOURE GAY
- PRI 2019 – FROM ILLEGAL TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND AN OPENLY GAY LEAR, IRELAND’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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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.
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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.
IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI
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“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. “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. As Stephen Healy, a 47 year-old gay man om a small town ral Cork highlighted, for many queer people smaller ral areas what matters is havg people that make you feel unrstood and supported regardls of their own inty. Stephen had a siar experience his twenti when he travelled to a group for closeted gay men.
THIS OPENLY GAY EQUALY CHAMP IS THE FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT PM
THE Dubl Pri Para bursts to actn the pal today — wh thoands of people turng out to celebrate the LGBTQ muny. But the battle to end the equaly of LGBTQ people ntu to be a long one for many. Here, Niamh Anrson looks back at the history of the mpaign for gay rights. * ireland's favourite gay *
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Mr Varadkar, who me out as gay ahead of the untry’s equal marriage referendum 2015, is expected to lnch a learship bid to succeed Kenny – a signifint steppg stone the formerly ultra-nservative untry. If he is elected, Mr Varadkar would be only the fourth openly gay head of ernment recent global history. There is currently only one other gay lear office, Luxembourg’s PM Xavier Bettel.
He told Parliament an emotnal speech: “This is not a Bill about ‘gay marriage’, is about ‘equal marriage’. “This Bill allows allow gay men and women, for the first time, to be equal cizens their own untry. It will clu three origal songs, a ver of Melanie C’s ‘I Turn To You, ’ and a new versn of ‘Proud’ featurg The London Gay Men’s Chos.
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PRI 2019 – FROM ILLEGAL TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND AN OPENLY GAY LEAR, IRELAND’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
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The celebratn of lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr and queer people, has grown om a one-day event to a ten-day ftival celebratg LGBTQ culture Ireland.
Pri officially me to Dubl 1983 when a large sle march for gay rights took place at Dubl’s Liberty Hall months after Declan Flynn was murred Fairview Park bee he was gay. A few years before that, 1974, ten people who supported gay rights marched across Dubl to highlight the crimalisatn of homosexualy.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
But 45 years later, Ireland has s first openly gay lear, Leo Varadkar, and beme the first untry to vote for same-sex marriage by popular vote. Here, NIAMH ANDERSON looks back at the history of the mpaign for gay rights.
The Offenc Agast The Persons Act 1861 ma homosexualy illegal Ireland. A number of men workg Dubl Castle were tried for havg homosexual relatns.