A gay rights group is welg the likely appotment of the world's first openly gay prime mister, Johanna Sigurdardottir of Iceland.
Contents:
- "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- ICELAND TO ELECT WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PM
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- ICELAND PICKS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PM
"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
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. * first gay prime minister in the world *
She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic. Meet Leo, the openly gay, half-Indian Taoiseach (Prime Mister) of Ireland.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * first gay prime minister in the world *
El Di Rupo was the Prime Mister of Belgium, and the first openly gay man (and the send LGBT person) to lead a untry. One of the most strikg moments was when a journalist a media pack chasg him down the street cried, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!
ICELAND TO ELECT WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PM
The former GP, who me out as gay 2015, is nfirmed as taoiseach Dáil ceremony Dubl * first gay prime minister in the world *
All hail Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first gay Prime Mister of Iceland, and the first LGBTI lear of a untry anywhere the world.
As one would expect, most gay world lears have belonged to progrsive parti and pursued progrsive agendas, mirrorg the beliefs of the people that elected them. 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.
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Icelandic polician who served as prime mister of Iceland om 2009 to 2013. She was the untry’s first female prime mister, and she was also the world’s first openly gay head of ernment (Per-Kristian Foss served briefly as actg prime mister of Norway 2002). * first gay prime minister in the world *
”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.
ICELAND PICKS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PM
From the US’ Pete Buttigieg, to Germany’s Jens Spahn and Serbia’s Ana Brnabić, there are more openly gay and lbian policians senr ernments around the globe than ever before * first gay prime minister in the world *
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. “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.
* first gay prime minister in the world *
This week her remarkable transformatn is close to pletn as she ntemplat beg the world's first openly gay prime was her unn nnectns that first brought her to polics, as an MP elected 1978 for the Social Democratic party. She first beme a mother at 30, and aga at same year that she entered parliament, the Natnal Organisatn of Lbians and Gay Men Iceland was formed, lled Samtok 78 honour of their foundg year.