White House photo caption omits husband of Luxembourg’s gay PM

The White House omitted Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, from the caption to an official photograph of the spouses of Nato leaders taken at this week’s summit in Brussels.

Destenay, a Belgian architect, married Bettel in 2015, becoming the first same-sex spouse of a leader of a EU member state. American First Lady Melania Trump was identified twice in the original caption to the official White House photograph. Destenay’s name later appeared in an edited version of caption.

The original caption read: “First Lady Melania Trump poses with Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, center, and other spouses of Nato leaders: First Lady Emine Erdogan of Turkey; Iceland’s Thora Margret Baldvinsdottir; the First Lady of France Brigitte Trogneux; First Lady Melania Trump; Slovenia’s Mojca Stropnik; Bulgaria’s Desislava Radeva; Belgium’s Amlie Derbaudrenghien, and Norway’s Ingrid Schulerud.” -IANS