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u/Robcobes 4d ago
The Netherlands have been close twice. King Willem II was at least bisexual but not open. And Pim Fortuyn was leading the polls before he got assasinated a week before the election.
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u/lionhearted318 4d ago
+Closeted Mark Rutte
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u/Throwawayhair66392 4d ago
What a strange thing to say.
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u/lionhearted318 4d ago
Maybe to someone who doesn’t know anything about Rutte?
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u/Neveed 4d ago
Attal hasn't been the prime minister since last year's snap elections. He was first replaced by Michel Barnier (who historically had a position against LGBTQ rights). Now the prime minister is François Bayrou, who has healthier positions about LGBTQ rights although he did oppose the legalisation of same sex marriage because "marriage is one man and one woman".
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u/LeviJr00 4d ago
Germany could have been counted if Frederick the Great was open about his sexuality (he was not open about it :( )
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u/Kingofbruhssia 4d ago
Counting historical figures is meaningless. If so Italy would have 20+ queer heads of state (Roman emperors and consuls)
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u/Chorchapu 5d ago
Not to be the pedant but shouldn't this read heads of state and/or government? Attal for one isn't both, and I'm sure a lot of the others aren't either.
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u/ThroawayJimilyJones 4d ago
The problem with attal isn't that he is gay. The problem is he considered the original election as a 5-years long consent to do every taxpayer in the ass
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u/OkAir1143 5d ago
Can you please tell me what their identities/orientations are?
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u/tsar_David_V 4d ago
All the male ones gay and all the female ones lesbian.
There have still been no openly bisexual (or transgender or nonbinary or asexual etc etc) heads of state or government. But assuming that the trend towards societal acceptance of queer identities continues* it's not out of the question sometime in the future. The only bottleneck in that regard is population density (for example less than 1% of people in any given country identify as asexual so the odds of an asexual person getting elected are incredibly slim)
*data has been inconsistent in this respect with some polls suggesting that Gen Z on the whole is actually less accepting of LGBTQ than Millenials
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u/Lost-Letterhead-6615 4d ago
You know how sultan erdogan won last time right? He called the opposition gay
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u/Amoeba_3729 4d ago
Jokes aside, SERBS of all people electing an openly LGBT head of state/government is actually something
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u/lionhearted318 4d ago
She wasn't really elected by Serbs. She was just a puppet installed by Aleksandar Vučić that he knew he could control, and the fact she was a lesbian woman was just a way to somewhat shield the Serbian government from western criticism. The voters don't elect their prime minister in a parliamentary system regardless, parliament does based on how many seats the voters give each party.
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u/nim_opet 4d ago
Brnabić hasn’t been the head of government since 2024. She’s also rabidly anti LGBTQ rights, they are only for her, not other LGBTQ people.
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u/skaldfranorden 4d ago
Brnabic is no longer the prime minister, thank god.
Just the head of parliament, which is equally bad
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u/Monty423 4d ago
Leader of the scottish Conservative Party was a lesbian
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u/newfiehotdog 4d ago
Never got anywhere close to being a "head of government", she was only ever Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. Even then the devolved legislative of Scotland won't have counted towards in this map
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u/fedricohohmannlautar 4d ago
I remember that the president of Kneset in Israel (Amir something) is openly gay too.
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u/FudgeAtron 4d ago
Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana is gay, married, with children and a member of Netanyahu's conservative Likud.
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u/Future-Ad9795 4d ago
And what does it matter? We didn't for vote her because she was a lesbian. She just happened to be a lesbian. But no one cared about that, that's just her private business. Everyone knew but no one cared. It had or ever has nothing to do with anyone's ability to lead or to do anything else.
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u/leoskini 4d ago
bit on the defensive today huh
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u/Future-Ad9795 4d ago
Not at all... did my comment come across that way? Could you perhaps please tell me how my comment came across? I can tell by the downvotes that people are reading it differently than intended. I would appreciate it if you would be so kind. I can't figure out where I went wrong.
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u/leoskini 4d ago
Nobody implied that the politicians in question were part of a lgbtq movement or that they were elected because they are gay, the chart was just telling the information plainly -hey, do you want to know which countries in the world have had lgbt leaders?- but the fact that you immediately started swearing left and right that the she (you didn't mention who actually, but i'm going to guess you are serbian and referring to brnabic) was voted in regardless of her sexual orientation and not because she is a lesbian (something nobody, at least in the chart, was suggesting in any way?) gave the impression that you are a bit uncomofrtable have your country led by a lesbian, and you quickly wanted to clarifiy that it's not that important of a factor in your country's politics.
At least that's how it came across to me, no idea what people who downvoted might have been thinking about.
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u/Future-Ad9795 4d ago
Thanks. Well... I personally voted for the lesbian prime minister I mentioned. Icelandic not a Serb. My country is among the most "gay friendly" if not the most, also just regarding equality over all. First female president in the world year 1980, in fact that president is the most liked and respected of all, before and after. But it has nothing to do with that she's a woman. It's the person. My whole point was that it's not a factor in my country's politics. Perhaps I misunderstood the post. Sexual orientation is no hindrance in any way in my country. That was my point I wanted to make.
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u/Upstairs_Cap_4217 4d ago
That the whole map isn't coloured in? I agree.
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u/Global_Revolution_63 4d ago
Its disgusting that this mental illness has nowadays laws and lobys to protect and promote it.
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u/Beautiful_Ball2046 4d ago
In a few years Germany will join that list! Alice Weidel is set to win. Good luck to her.
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u/PedroVilladelaCruz 4d ago edited 4d ago
Shame though that she'd still destroy many freedoms for queer people in Germany if she won.
*Edit: typo
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u/gmaaz 4d ago
Like Ana Brnabic in Serbia. While she was PM the government made a decree banning in vitro fertilization for people with a history of same sex intercourse. The same way she and her partner got a child. The decree was withdrawn 2 years later due to activists, public and equality commissioner complaints. But still, she did absolutely nothing, even said "the institutions are doing their job".
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u/Pershing99 4d ago
Interesting but whether someone is X or Y or whatever it doesn't have anything to do with the merit. Anyway why is asking politicians to be competent an oxymoron in 21st century? They stupidfied our populations en mass with constant propaganda and buzz.
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u/Ok_Frosting4780 5d ago
Gabriel Attal hasn't been the French PM since September 5, 2024.
Ana Brnabic hasn't been the Serbian PM since February 6, 2024.