Which European countries have LGBTQ+ leaders?
Greece’s leftist opposition Syriza party has elected gay former Goldman Sachs trader Stefanos Kasselakis as its leader, the first time an openly LGBTQ+ figure has headed one of the country’s main political parties.
Married to nurse Tyler Macbeth since 2019, the 35-year-old Kasselakis has said “Greek people are ready to have a prime minister who is capable, incorruptible, unscathed and happens to be gay”.
Europe leads the world in the number of openly gay political leaders in office, with four current heads of government in Luxembourg, Ireland, Serbia and Andorra.
In Latvia, President Edgars Rinkevics became the region’s first openly gay head of state earlier this year. Here’s what you need to know about Europe’s current and former LGBTQ+ leaders: Iceland Former Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the world’s first openly gay head of government when she took office in 2009.
