LGBTQ Head of State

We have identified the following individuals as LGBTQ Heads of State.

In many of the historical cases, confirmation of the individual's homosexuality is a debated issue but, generally, historians accept the case. At the time, it would not have conformed to societal and religious norms of intolerance to declare one's homosexuality.

• Alexander the Great, Macedonia
• James Buchanan, United States
• Rosario Crocetta, Sicily
• Enrique IV de Castilla, Spain
• Magnus Eriksson, Sweden
• Per-Kristian Foss, Norway
• Heliogabalus, also known as Elagabalus, Rome
• Kristina, Sweden
• Ludwig II, Bavaria
• Richard I Coeur de Lion, England
• Cecil Rhodes, South Africa
• Elio di Rupo, Belgium
• Johanna Siguroardottir, Iceland
• Claudius Nero Tiberius, Rome

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