{"id":7378,"date":"2017-05-29T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2017-05-29T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T02:58:11","slug":"white-house-photo-caption-omits-husband-of-luxembourgs-gay-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/white-house-photo-caption-omits-husband-of-luxembourgs-gay-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"White House photo caption omits husband of Luxembourg\u2019s gay PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) May 29 – The name of Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel, didn\u2019t appear in the original caption to the official White House photograph. Destenay\u2019s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.<\/p>\n

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First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay is pictured during a visit of the First Ladies to a shop of Belgian fashion label Delvaux, on May 25 in Brussels, on the sidelines of the NATO summit.(AFP Photo)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

The White House omitted Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg\u2019s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, from the caption to an official photograph of the spouses of Nato leaders taken at this weeks summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n

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Destenay, a Belgian architect, married Bettel in 2015, becoming the first same-sex spouse of a leader of a European Union member state, the Guardian reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n

American First Lady Melania Trump was identified twice in the original caption to the official White House photograph, which was taken by Andrea Hanks and posted to Facebook on Saturday in a collection of pictures from Trump\u2019s nine-day international tour.<\/p>\n

Destenay\u2019s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.<\/p>\n

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(LtoR) First Lady of France Brigitte Macron, First Lady of Turkey Emine Gulbaran Erdogan, First Lady of the US Melania Trump, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Stoltenberg’s partner Ingrid Schulerud, Partner of Bulgaria’s President Desislava Radeva, partner of Charles Michel Amelie Derbaudrenghien, (back row, LtoR) First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay, partner of Slovenia’s Prime Minister Mojca Stropnik and First Lady of Iceland Thora Margret Baldvinsdottir pose for a family photo before a diner of the First Ladies and Queen at the Royal castle in Laken\/Laeken, on May 25 in Brussels. (AFP Photo)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The original caption read: \u201cFirst Lady Melania Trump poses with Belgium\u2019s Queen Mathilde, center, and other spouses of Nato leaders: First Lady Emine Erdogan of Turkey; Iceland\u2019s Thora Margret Baldvinsdottir; the First Lady of France Brigitte Trogneux; First Lady Melania Trump; Slovenia\u2019s Mojca Stropnik; Bulgaria\u2019s Desislava Radeva; Belgium\u2019s Am\u00e9lie Derbaudrenghien, and Norway\u2019s Ingrid Schulerud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Destenay, smiling and wearing a dark suit, white shirt and light blue tie, is clearly visible in the picture, behind Melania Trump\u2019s right shoulder, reports the Guardian.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmistake\u201d faced a lot of criticism and backlash on social media.<\/p>\n

Scott Bixby of the Daily Beast called the caption \u201chomophobic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Destenay and Bettel\u2019s marriage is not the first same-sex union at the highest levels of world politics.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Johanna Siguroardottir, then Prime Minister of Iceland, became the first serving leader in the world to marry a same-sex partner.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) May 29 – The name of Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel, didn\u2019t appear in the original caption to the official White House photograph. Destenay\u2019s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.<\/p>\n

First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay is pictured during a visit of the First Ladies to a shop of Belgian fashion label Delvaux, on May 25 in Brussels, on the sidelines of the NATO summit.(AFP Photo)<\/p>\n

The White House omitted Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg\u2019s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[1438,1145,894],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-gay-prime-minister","tag-homophobic","tag-same-sex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}