Edgars Rinkevics came out in 2014 and has been a vocal champion of LGBT rights.
I wish for a world where this wasn’t news and wouldn’t matter anymore, but as the world is right now, this is still an issue in many countries, and therefore imo noteworthy and good news.
(I have no idea if he is a good president otherwise, I’m not promoting his political leanings because I don’t know them.)
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his first and last name ending in S made me think there was more than one of him.