Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Is Marrying His Boyfriend This Week
Gauthier
Destenay and PM Xavier Bettel
Luxembourg’s
Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, is getting ready to marry his boyfriend, Gauthier
Destenay, later this week.
The
two have been together for five years and got engaged last August,
soon after Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies passed an marriage equality
bill.
Bettel
and Destenay are expected to have a private ceremony on Friday.
“He does not want to put his private life in the public spotlight and he
has turned down requests from the celebrity magazines to cover the event,” a
friend told AFP.
Bettel
is currently the only openly gay leader of a country, and only the third
ever—following lesbian prime minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir of Iceland
andBelgium’s Elio
Di Rupo.
Interesting
factoid: Luxembourg’s deputy PM, Etienne Schneider, also happens to be gay. (Who
run da ‘Bourg?)
Congratulations
to the prime minister and his future first
gentleman.
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