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Belgian PM says country is going backwards on gay tolerance

The Prime Minister of Belgium has stated that anti-gay hate is on the rise setting the country on a backwards path from tolerance Tolerance in Belgium towards LGBT people has been eroding in the last three to four years, suggested Elio Di Rupo, the country’s Prime Minister. Speaking in Antwerp, Belgium (4 December) during a… Read more »

Belgium’s new gay Socialist premier: from rags to riches

Brussels (AFP)– Elio Di Rupo, who becomes Europe’s second openly gay government leader when sworn in on Tuesday as Belgium’s new premier, is a 60-year-old career politician with a storybook background. Born to an Italian coalminer father and illiterate mother in a 1951 migrant shanty-town, Di Rupo will be the first French-speaking leader of language-divided… Read more »