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Out Prime Minister of Luxembourg marries his partner

 

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Xavier Bettel, the openly gay Prime Minister of Luxembourg, married his long term partner on Friday last week.

The ceremony between Bettel and his now husband, Gauthier Destinay, was officiated by the mayor of Luxembourg City who has been a friend of the Prime Minister for decades.

“I wouldn’t have thought that 33 years later I would officiate his wedding and that to as lovely a man as Gauthier,” Mayor Lydie Polfe said.

The husbands are now the second same-sex married couple to include a currently sitting world leader, following Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her partner Jonina Leosdottir in 2010. Bettel will make history as the first EU leader to marry their same-sex partner.

Bettel is currently the only out LGBT world leader since the end of Sigurdardottir’s term in 2013, and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo completing his term in 2014.

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