The
Prime Minister of Luxembourg has become the first gay EU leader to
enter into a same-sex union, after getting married in a low-key ceremony Monday.
Prime
Minister Xavier Bettel is being held up as a symbol of social change
and the growing acceptance of homosexuality across the continent.
The 42-year-old centre-right politician, who became premier in 2013, married his partner Gauthier Destenay, a Belgian architect.
The wedding comes just months after the conservative Roman Catholic duchy legalised gay weddings.
Bettel
wore a nave blue suit as he said his 'I do', while his partner
dressed in a dark grey suit, at the ceremony held at the Luxembourg town
hall.
The happy pair held hands as they arrived at the venue, to the applause of the around 100 well-wishers.
'Thank you to all Luxembourgers,' said Bettel, after the ceremony, as the crowd threw rice and confetti over the newlyweds.
Bettel is only the second gay leader in the world to wed their partner, and the first in the 28-nation EU.
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