Latvia’s new president, Edgar Rinkēvičs, becomes the seventh out LGBTQ person to lead a country.
July 10, 2023, 9:54 PM UTCEdgars Rinkēvičs, who since 2011 served as the country’s foreign minister,after the incumbent president, Egils Levits, did not seek re-election.
“Russia’s war and genocide in Ukraine have created a new, harsh reality,” Rinkēvičs said. “We will continue to support the heroic Ukrainian people in their struggle for freedom until Ukraine’s final victory. We will continue to fight against Russian imperialism and its evil world ideology.”he is gay on Twitter in November 2014, though the country, a former Soviet republic, is not especially LGBTQ-inclusive. The country allows for same-sex civil unions, for example, but not same-sex marriages.
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