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Guess Who's The First European Royal To Pose For A Gay Magazine?

A European monarch has posed for the cover of a gay magazine for the first time in history. Alas, it's not Prince Harry (he's pretty far down the Windsor food chain)—it's King Felipe VI of Spain, who took the throne in June 2014 after his father, Juan Carlos I, stepped down.

King Felipe beams from the cover of the January issue of Ragap, a gay magazine in Spain, but it's not a coming out story: The handsome royal is happily heterosexual. He's just an active supporter of LGBT equality and the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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Felipe was born in 1968, at the tail end of Franco's regime, an era marked by repression and homophobia. Now, however, Spain has one of Europe's most vibrant gay communities and legalized same-sex marriage back in 2005. Patricia Yurena, who represented Spain at the Miss Universe contest in 2013, came out as a lesbian last year.

Just days after his coronation, in fact, Felipe and wife Queen Letizia met with representatives from LGBT groups as one of their first public acts.

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“The king and queen received us on their first week on the job," said National Federation of LGBTs president Boti García at the time, "while the deputy prime minister did not even return our calls on the two occasions we requested a meeting with her,”

Felipe called participants "the image of solidarity in Spain.”

Read the full Ragap article here.

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