Latvia's long-serving foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics has become the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation. Mr Rinkevics, who had served as foreign minister since 2011, was ...

Latvian lawmakers voted on Thursday to allow same-sex civil unions, providing same-sex couples with legal recognition for the first time. However, same-sex couples will still have fewer rights than ...

On Thursday (9 November) the Parliament in Latvia voted to legalise civil unions for gay couples. It means, for the first time, that gay couples have been given legal recognition. However, their ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Latvia's parliament on Thursday voted to allow same-sex couples to establish civil unions, providing them with legal recognition but fewer rights than married couples ...

Latvia and its Baltic neighbors, Estonia and Lithuania, were occupied by the Soviet Union for 50 years. After the Soviet ...

Latvia's new president Edgars Rinkevics was sworn in on Saturday (July 8) in Riga, becoming the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation.