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Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel Marries His Husband
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This year, Luxembourg became the 17th nation to enact marriage equality. But on Friday, May 15, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel put that law into action by marrying his longtime partner, Gauthier Destenay, a Belgian architect, in the the small European country's capital. He is the second world leader to marry a same-sex partner while in office -- the first being Johanna Sigurdardotti, Iceland's former prime minister, five years ago -- but he is the first European Union Leader to do so.
"I have just one life, and I don't want to hide my life," Bettel told the Los Angeles Times last year. "But I was not the 'gay candidate.' ... People didn't vote for me because I'm gay or I'm straight."
Mayor Lydie Polfe told Luxembourg-based broadcaster RTL: "I wouldn't have thought that 33 years later I would officiate his wedding and that to as lovely a man as Gauthier"
The couple have been been in a "civil partnership" for several years but Destenay proposed to Bettel last year.
Stephane Bern, a French journalist and a personal friend of Bettel's who attended the wedding, commented that there was not a "dry eye in the
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Luxembourg PM first EU leader to marry same-sex partner
"I could have hidden it or repressed it and been unhappy my whole life," Mr Bettel reportedly told a Belgian broadcaster the night before the nuptials.
"But I told myself that if you want to be a politician and be honest in politics, you have to be honest with yourself and accept that you are who you are."
Former Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo was the EU's first openly gay national leader.
The Luxembourg newly-weds are not expected to go away on a honeymoon, as the PM has to attend an economic forum in Kazakhstan, according to AFP news agency.
A friend of the couple told the French news agency Mr Bettel was keen to keep his private life out of the public spotlight.
Pierre Leyers, a journalist in Luxembourg, told the BBC that the country's media and public were respecting the PM's wishes.
"It is something quite ingrained in society - we are quite reserved and do not like things to be too public," he said.
Among the guests spotted in the crowd was Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, according to Luxemburger Wort newspaper., external
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