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Luxembourg City Mayor Xavier Bettel, right, and partner Gauthier Destenay attend the wedding of Luxembourg's Prince Guillaume and Countess Stephanie de Lannoy of Belgium at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Luxembourg on Oct. 20, 2012.

Luxembourg City Mayor Xavier Bettel, right, and partner Gauthier Destenay attend the wedding of Luxembourg’s Prince Guillaume and Countess Stephanie de Lannoy of Belgium at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Luxembourg on Oct. 20, 2012.   (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images)

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When the tiny European nation of Luxembourg legalized same-sex marriage in June, the conservative-leaning prime minister, Xavier Bettel, not only supported the new law, but he also may be among the first to take advantage of it.

Luxembourg premier with German chancellor

Prime Minister Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in July 2014 after a European Council meeting.   (John Thys / AFP/Getty Images)

Luxembourg leader Xavier Bettel

Xavier Bettel took office as Luxembourg’s prime minister in December 2013, after an election campaign in which his sexuality was neither a secret nor an issue.   (John Thys / AFP/Getty Images)

Luxembourg premier joins vanguard of gay leaders

Iceland’s former Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir first took the nation’s top office in 2009.   (Halldor Kolbeins / AFP/Getty Images)

Luxembourg premier joins vanguard of gay leaders

Belgium’s Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, in June. He was named premier in 2011.   (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press)

Paris mayor with successor

Bertrand Delanoe, Paris’ openly gay mayor, with his newly elected successor, Anne Hidalgo, in March 2014.   (Matthieu Amexandre / AFP/Getty Images)

Luxembourg premier joins vanguard of gay leaders

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is gay, has been in office since 2001.  (Athanasios Gioumpasis / Getty Images)

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