"Rob Jetten, 38, is the new social liberal prime minister of the Netherlands and the first openly gay person to hold the office in the country. He has been open about his sexual orientation since the beginning of his career. Since 2024, he has been engaged to Nicolas Keenan, a 28-year-old Argentine field hockey player whom he met four years ago in a supermarket in The Hague."
"Three years after entering Parliament in 2017, Jetten stirred consciences with videos in which he read the homophobic comments he received on social media. Today he has almost 380,000 followers on Instagram. His relationship with Keenan began later, but his apprehension about these kinds of attacks underlay the athlete's initial reluctance to publicly acknowledge their romantic relationship."
"Keenan has played hockey since childhood, a sport that unites his entire family. His father, Patricio, coached the Egara club in Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain), where his son moved as a young boy. On his mother's side, whose surname is Capurro, his uncle Santiago participated in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games and coached the Argentine women's national team, Las Leonas."
Rob Jetten, a 38-year-old social liberal politician, made history as the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister. He has maintained transparency about his sexual orientation throughout his political career since 2008, serving in Parliament for Democrats 66 since 2017. Jetten became engaged in 2024 to Nicolas Keenan, a 28-year-old Argentine field hockey player. The couple met by chance in a supermarket in The Hague four years prior, with Keenan subsequently contacting Jetten through Instagram. Keenan comes from a prominent hockey family with connections to both Spanish and Argentine sports. Initially hesitant to publicly acknowledge their relationship due to homophobic attacks Jetten experienced on social media, Keenan eventually became comfortable with public recognition of their partnership.
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