Tuesday, November 25, 2014

INTERVIEW: The gay Latvian foreign minister whose coming out shocked Eastern Europe

Earlier this month, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics announced that he was gay, breaking a major barrier in eastern Europe’s socially conservative political scene, where openly gay public figures of any sort are extremely rare. The announcement provoked strong reaction in Latvia and its neighbors. Western European leaders congratulated Rinkevics on his courage. Some of […]

















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