Great Read Luxembourg premier joins vanguard of gay leaders

[unhappycamper]

http://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-europe-gay-leaders-20140820-story.html#page=2

Great Read
Luxembourg premier joins vanguard of gay leaders
By Henry Chu
8.20.2014

The remarkable thing when this tiny nation legalized same-sex marriage in June wasn't that the conservative-leaning prime minister, Xavier Bettel, supported the new law.

It was that he might be among the first to take advantage of it.

Bettel and his partner, architect Gauthier Destenay, probably will tie the knot sometime soon. "He asked me, and I said yes," the 41-year-old prime minister said with an impish grin. "I can't give you the date, because it's not official yet."

He took office in December, after an election campaign in which his sexuality was neither a secret nor an issue. Bettel had opened up about his private life when he was a Luxembourg city councilman, acknowledging his sexual orientation on a radio talk show. (Asking the DJ to play a song by gay pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "The Power of Love," sealed matters.)

[nomorenomore08]

1. Awesome. Congratulations to Mr. Bettel and Mr. Destenay.

(41 does seem pretty young for the leader of a country, though.)