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 weeks summit in Brussels.
Destenay, a Belgian architect, married Bettel in 2015, becoming the first same-sex spouse of a leader of a European Union member state, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
American First lady Melania Trump was identified twice in the original caption to the official White House photograph, which was taken by Andrea Hanks and posted to Facebook on Saturday in a collection of pictures from Trump’s nine-day international tour.
Destenay’s name later appeared in an edited version of the caption.
The original caption read: “First lady Melania Trump poses with Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, centre, 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 Amélie Derbaudrenghien, and Norway’s Ingrid Schulerud.”