Posted on 06/01/2023 8:20:43 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Latvia's Parliament on Wednesday elected former foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics as President, making him the first openly gay person to hold the position in any country.
"I am honoured and humbled to be elected as President of the Republic of Latvia, I will do my best to serve the people of Latvia well," Rinkevics tweeted following the vote.
While not the first openly gay head of state, Rinkevics's election marks yet another milestone for LGBTQ+ politicians.
Rinkevics came out in 2014, signaling on Twitter his support for a "legal framework for all types of partnerships."
In coming out, Rinkevics became the first openly LGBTQ+ politician in Latvia, which is still considered to be more socially conservative then its Baltic neighbors.
A court in the country last year ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to legal recognition, though marriage and adoption are still exclusively reserved for heterosexual couples.
Rinkevics will become the first openly gay president, but not the first head of state. That distinction is reserved for Paolo Rondelli, who served as one of San Marino's Captain Regents in 2022.
Before his appointment, Rondelli was an outspoken LGBTQ+ activist and served as the country's ambassador to the United States.
Latvia and Eastern Europe progressed on LGBTQ+ rights in an effort to distance themselves from Russian influence, writes Michael Birnbaum for The Washington Post. Although right-wing figures prevail in many of these countries, the general acceptance of gay rights has coincided with many of these countries joining the European Union and embracing EU political values…
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Gosh…wouldn’t want be like Christian Russia
Justin Trudeau is actually a Prime Minister.
World’s first? What about the Obozo? Oh yeah, openly gay.
Well that sounds very stylish.
Hard to believe that line is more than 50 years old.
His campaign slogan was "Make Latvia Fabulous Again."
Wasn’t there this fag leader in Ireland?
Photo evidence of Trump grabbing a pussy.
Russia ain’t Christian - no more than RINOs are Republican
You know it... First half black president, and first gay president (still closeted... For now). He'll eventually own up to it.
I keep waiting for the “official” historians to fess up on Gay Edgar Hoover.
Trudeau, Obama, Zelensky...
You don’t think the left has done everything it can to find proof that Hoover was a homosexual?
Why in the hell is this newsworthy? It’s like damming up a turd floating down a creek.
James Buchanan.
Leo Varadkar in Ireland is gay. He wasn’t a president, but as prime minister he had more power. In many countries, the president is just a figurehead, like modern monarchs. Plenty of kings, queens, emperors and empresses through history have been homosexual.
I think the leftist historians are trying to “thread the needle” on Hoover.
There is tons of evidence he was gay and controlled/blackmailed by the mob as a result.
The problem for the left is that Hoover was anti-Communist so they do not want to make a woke hero out of him.
that picture is funny.
Does one of those guys have 7 fingers?
Or are they holding hands?
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