Luxembourg Prime Minister, Xavier
Bettel, has married his gay partner,
becoming the first leader in the
European Union to enter into a same-
sex union in a symbol of growing
social change across the continent.
Bettel, 42, a centre-right politician, who
became premier in 2013, tied the knot
on Friday with Gauthier Destenay, a
Belgian architect, just months after the
Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay
weddings.
The prime minister and his partner held
hands as they arrived for the low key
ceremony at the Luxembourg town
hall, where around 100 well-wishers
applauded them.
“Thank you to all Luxembourgers,”
Bettel said after the ceremony, as the
crowd threw rice and confetti over the
couple.
As well as being the first leader in the
28-nation EU to wed a gay partner,
Bettel is only the second in the world
after Iceland’s Prime Minister, Johanna
Sigurdardottir, who married her writer
partner in 2010.
Iceland is not part of the EU.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel,
who was among the guests at Bettel’s
wedding, said he had come for a
“mate’s wedding”, adding that it was a
“big moment” for his counterpart from
the neighbouring country.
“Luxembourg is giving the image of a
country that is advanced on social
issues. That is a message sent at a
time when homophobia is on the rise
in Europe,” said another friend of the
couple, journalist Stephane Bern.
Luxembourg’s parliament approved
same-sex marriage in June 2014 and
the first weddings took place on
January 1, 2015, making it the latest in
a growing number of European
countries to embrace the trend.
Bettel’s wedding comes the week
before staunchly Catholic Ireland holds
a referendum on whether to allow
same-sex marriage.
Source: www.punchng.com/news/luxembourg-prime-minister-weds-gay-lover/

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