What's the first thing you
noticed about this picture of political spouses and partners? It's probably the
man in the back row, standing out against the nine women pictured.
That's Gauthier Destenay, the First Gentleman of Luxembourg and the husband of the world's only acting openly gay prime minister. Destenay and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel wed in 2015, right after Luxembourg legalized gay marriage.
When Bettel won the Prime Ministership in 2013, he was already in a civil partnership with Destenay and their sexualities were not a secret. To be clear, Bettel isn't the only gay prime minister ever, just the only one in office right now. Former Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and former Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurõardóttir were both public about their sexualities.
Destenay, a Belgian architect, joined the likes of US First Lady Melania Trump in Brussels on Thursday while their partners were off discussing world matters. The First Gentleman posed for photos with the group of women at Royal Castle of Laeken on Thursday evening ahead of a dinner especially for spouses.
The others in the picture
include: First row: First Lady of France Brigitte Macron, First Lady of Turkey
Emine Gulbaran Erdogan, First Lady of the US Melania Trump, Queen Mathilde of
Belgium, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg's partner Ingrid Schulerud,
Partner of Bulgaria's President Desislava Radeva, partner of Belgium's Prime
Minister Amelie Derbaudrenghien.
Second row: First Gentleman of
Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay, partner of Slovenia's Prime Minister Mojca
Stropnik, and First Lady of Iceland Thora Margret Baldvinsdottir.
Credit: CNN
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