White House snubs Luxembourg’s first gentleman: Facebook photo caption of the NATO WAGS omits husband of gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
Gauthier Destenay, Luxembourg’s First Gentleman, mingled with the spouses of world leaders on Thursday
He joined the likes of Melania Trump in Brussels while their partners attended the NATO conference
Destenay, who married his husband in 2015, posed for photos with the group of women at the Royal Castle
But the White House omitted his name from the caption when they posted the picture to Facebook on Saturday
Officials claimed it was an ‘oversight’ and have since changed the caption after an angry backlash on Twitter
By Hannah Parry and Emily Crane
DailyMail.com
28 May 2017
The White House omitted the husband of Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel from the caption of an official photograph of the spouses of NATO leaders.
Gauthier Destenay, who married Bettel in 2015, joined the likes of First Lady Melania Trump in Brussels on Thursday while their partners were off discussing world matters.
The First Gentleman posed for photos with the group of women at Royal Castle of Laeken on Thursday evening ahead of a dinner especially for spouses.
The White House then posted the picture to it’s Facebook page on Saturday, with the caption ‘First Lady Melania Trump poses with Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, center, and other spouses of NATO leaders.’
The caption then went on to list all the NATO spouses pictured, except one, Destenay.
Meanwhile, Melania Trump was identified twice in the original caption on the photo, which was posted in an album titled President Trump’s Trip Abroad.
The move sparked outrage among the LGBTQ community and many on Twitter slammed it as ‘classless’ or even ‘homophobic.’
But deputy press secretary Stephanie Grisham insists the omission was an ‘oversight.’
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