Luxembourg’s gay First Man missing in caption

Washington, May 28: The White House has amended a caption on an official photo of US First Lady Melania Trump posing with Nato leaders’ spouses, after the name of the gay husband of Luxembourg’s Prime Minister was originally omitted.

The photo caption listed Ms Melania and eight other First Ladies in attendance, but failed to name Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg’s gay Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel. Mr Destenay married Luxembourg Prime Minister Bettel in 2015.

After drawing condemnation across social media for the “embarrassing” and “disrespectful” omission, the caption was updated to include Mr Destenay, 10 hours after it was originally posted, the ABC reported.

In the official photograph Mr Destenay appears to be dressed in a black suit and blue tie, standing behind Ms Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkey’s President, and Ms Melania.

When the photograph, taken by Andrea Hanks, was initially posted on the White House Facebook page, Mr Destenay’s name was missing from the caption. While some suggested the omission was innocent,

many slammed it on social media as “embarrassing” and “disrespectful”, the report said.

The photo was taken at the last week’s summit in Brussels, and was posted on Facebook in a collection of images from President Donald Trump’s nine-day international tour. There was no indication from the White House why Mr Destenay’s name had initially been left out of the caption.

The marriage between Mr Destenay and Mr Bettel is not the first samesex political union; Iceland’s Johanna Sigurdardottir was the first serving leader to marry her same-sex partner. She married writer Jonina Leosdottir in 2010.

Mr Trump had previously stated he is “fine” with the legislation passed during the Obama administration, which allowed couples of the same sex to marry, however vice- president Mike Pence is known to have strong views in opposition to same-sex marriage.