“Gay Gaels” who have enriched Ireland’s history and culture for the world

Contents:

• IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
• GAY DUBL
• GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER
• 10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
• HOW IRISH GAYS BEME ‘NORMAL’ – AND WHY THE CHURCH WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH ABOUT

IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI

The stori the men this issue share wh rears some of the most breezy they have ever featured, cludg tal of boozy nights out on the gay scene, timate nights , and even tal that highlight some of the good moments to e om this panmic era. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). His work perdilly vered homosexual referenc and his personal life dit his attractn for men.

Rory O’Neill is famoly regnized as the drag queen Panti Bliss and is also a gay rights activist. Origally om Ballrobe, County Mayo, O’Neill grew up a small town and me out as gay his 20s. ” Norton is openly gay, workg as a prenter for TV and rad.

He me out as gay to the general public 2009 but to his clost fay and iends at the age of 16.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Polil lear Leo Varadkar publicly me out as gay 2015 and was an avid advote for the same-sex referendum.

“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD

It wasn’t always that way, but there has been a massive shift general attus sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993. BarsDubl’s olst and biggt gay bar is The Gee, which has been servg the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny for over thirty years. Also worth checkg out is the Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival, which ually tak place May and featur LGBTQ+-themed productns staged theatr and smaller venu across the cy.

Out2Tennis, meanwhile, is Ireland’s gay tennis work, anisg events and tournaments around the cy. Media ptnPractice your serve wh Out2Tennis, Ireland's gay tennis work.

As Stephen Healy, a 47 year-old gay man om a small town ral Cork highlighted, for many queer people smaller ral areas what matters is havg people that make you feel unrstood and supported regardls of their own inty.

GAY DUBL

Stephen had a siar experience his twenti when he travelled to a group for closeted gay men. Leo Varadkar, one of the hight-rankg openly gay elected officials the world, has offered his rignatn as Ireland's prime mister, although he will ntue as a "retaker" until a new ernment is party, Fe Gael, had failed to w a majory parliamentary electns Febary 8, and no other party did eher, leadg to "polil adlock" Ireland, CNN reports.

GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER

When he beme prime mister 2017, he was not only the natn's first gay prime mister but s youngt one -- he was then 38 -- and the first one om an ethnic mory group; his father is Indian and his mother is Irish.

He and his partner, Matthew Barrett, met wh notor homophobe Mike Pence 2019, and on the same vis he gave a speech at the Naval Observatory praisg diversy.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

HOW IRISH GAYS BEME ‘NORMAL’ – AND WHY THE CHURCH WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH ABOUT

”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!