Edgars Rinkēvičs, Latvia’s foreign affairs minister, announced on Twitter Thursday night that he is gay, a notable move for a politician in a region that has been slow to adopt gay rights.
“I proudly announce I’am [sic] gay…Good luck all of you,” Rinkēvičs tweeted in English. He also used the hashtag #proudtobegay in another tweet on the subject.
Latvia, a European Union member state, was part of the Soviet Union until 1991 and has a sizeable minority of Russian-speaking residents. But it has long had tense relations with Russia, which has recently seen a surge in homophobia driven by anti-gay policies and …read more
Source: Newsweek
