Leo Varadkar, the Indian-Orig Gay Man Poised to be Ireland’s PM

Contents:

• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
• LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
• WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
• LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
• GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER
• GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
• LEO VARADKAR, THE INDIAN-ORIG GAY MAN POISED TO BE IRELAND’S PMIF ELECTED, LEO VARADKAR WOULD ALSO BEE THE YOUNGT IRISH PRIME MISTER SO FAR. RTERSUPDATED: 04 JUN 2017, 8:31 PM ISTWORLD4 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY
• IRELAND: GAY MAN OF INDIAN-ORIG LEO VARADKAR RACE TO BEE PRIME MISTER
• IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG

IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED

The son of an Indian immigrant has ma Irish history by beg the untry’s youngt and first openly gay prime Varadkar, 38, was formally elected taoiseach at a nfirmatn ceremony the Dáil Dubl after he won the Fe Gael party learship earlier this month.

Leo Varadkar, (born January 18, 1979, Dubl, Ireland), Irish polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay taoiseach (prime mister) June 2017.

The tensely private Varadkar ma headl January 2015 when durg an appearance on Irish natnal rad (RTÉ) he announced that he was gay:.

LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM

I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter. Varadkar explaed to listeners, the procs beg the untry’s first openly gay ernment mister.

WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM

The announcement me some four months before Irish voters approved legalizatn of same-sex marriage a natnal referendum, but had been only jt over two s sce homosexualy had been crimalized Ireland.

When his nomatn was approved the Dáil by a vote of 57 to 50 (wh 45 abstentns) on June 14, Varadkar, at age 38, beme the youngt taoiseach Ireland’s history as well as s first openly gay taoiseach and the first to be a member of an ethnic mory.

The son of an Indian immigrant who me out as gay 2015 will be the next Irish prime mister, after he was voted lear of the untry’s ma erng Varadkar’s victory the Fe Gael learship ntt on Friday, which took place after outgog PM Enda Kenny announced his rignatn last month, marks another signifint step forward for equaly the untry, after 2015’s gay marriage well as beg Ireland’s first gay prime mister, Varadkar, 38, will also bee the untry’s youngt lear, and the first om an ethnic mory background. Although Varadkar’s centre-right polics are clearly nservative, he portrays the image of a new, progrsive Ireland, symbolised bt May 2015 when the Republic voted overwhelmgly favour of gay marriage. “I thk ’s really signifint that both his party and the media Ireland foced on his polici, rather than him simply beg a gay man who wants to lead the untry, ” said Brian Fnegan, the edor of Gay Communy News Dubl.

LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

“It is a sign of how much Ireland has changed and moved on that no one really r if he is gay here. Irish policians were among the last sectors of our society to e out of the closet but now at least we’ve got one gay man and a lbian, Cathere Zappone, both the bet. I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician, or a gay polician, for that matter.

GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER

Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Indian-orig polician, beme the Prime Mister of Ireland on Saturday.

Leo Varadkar, who was born 1979, beme the first openly gay Taoiseach June 2017. In 2017, when he beme the Irish Prime Mister for the first time, Varadkar created history by beg the first openly gay man to hold the office of Taoiseach. "I am not a half-Indian polician or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter.

What mak Varadkar's elevatn remarkable is that an openly gay polician has now occupied the top post of Ireland, a untry domated by stnch Catholic valu, not once, but twice. DUBLIN (Rters) - Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the first gay premier of the once-stnchly Catholic untry and the youngt person to hold the Varadkar is ngratulated by lleagu as he leav Government buildgs after beg elected by parliamentary vote as the next Prime Mister of Ireland (Taoiseach) to replace Enda Kenny Dubl, Ireland June 14, 2017. “Enda Kenny’s learship enabled me to bee an equal cizen my own untry two short years ago and to aspire to hold this office, an aspiratn I once thought was beyond my reach, at least if I chose to be myself, ” Varadkar said reference to Ireland’s 2015 vote to legalize gay marriage.

GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR

6 ln people that only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalized divorce two years later.

Varadkar, the Dubl-born son of an Indian immigrant father and Irish mother, beme the first openly gay bet mister Ireland after g out mpaigned on same-sex marriage and liberalisg abortn laws, although like the majory of his party lleagu, he is an advote of tight fisl 38-year-old won early support for his learship bid om several senr bet members and a majory of his parliamentary lleagu publicly backed said Friday: "I'm not untg my chickens. At 36, he publicly me out as gay.

Homosexualy was only crimalized Ireland 1993.

LEO VARADKAR, THE INDIAN-ORIG GAY MAN POISED TO BE IRELAND’S PMIF ELECTED, LEO VARADKAR WOULD ALSO BEE THE YOUNGT IRISH PRIME MISTER SO FAR. RTERSUPDATED: 04 JUN 2017, 8:31 PM ISTWORLD4 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY

Senator David Norris, 73, the first Irish polician to publicly e out as gay told CNN that he unrstands why Varadkar wants to foc on polici and not his personal life. Now to be able to have a young, able, good-lookg gay man as prime mister of the untry, says to young people, ‘you n be anythg you want, your sexualy don’t matter, ’” he said.

If elected, Varadkar would be one of two openly gay heads of state currently office – Luxembourg’s prime mister Xavier Bettel beg the other.

Ireland is on the verge of a huge generatnal change s polil life wh the likely electn of Leo Varadkar as s next premier – a move that would give the once-stnchly Catholic untry s first openly gay lear, and also s first lear of an Asian immigrant scent. I hontly don’t thk 1981, when I first got elected, that I uld foree a time when an openly gay man might bee Taoiseach (prime mister)Nora Owen, former Fe Gael puty lear and former jtice mister“We have e a long way and the fact that someone like Leo Varadkar, who is an openly gay man, livg wh his partner, n actually put himself forward for Taoiseach and nobody is battg an eyelid is wonrful and I thk 's a great day for Ireland that we n do that. Havg only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and troduced divorce two years later, Ireland beme the first untry to adopt gay marriage via a popular vote 2015, drawg overwhelmg support om every rner of the vote marked a further ebbg of the church's domance Irish society, which has been nsistently shattered over the past two s by the unverg of sndals of sex abe by prits and celty at Catholic-n electn would also show another face of morn-day Ireland.

IRELAND: GAY MAN OF INDIAN-ORIG LEO VARADKAR RACE TO BEE PRIME MISTER

Varadkar himself has played down the signifince of his background and personal a 2015 terview wh state broadster RTE, Varadkar publicly said for the first time that he was gay. ’ The send was, ‘and a son of an immigrant’ and was only then that someone said, ‘and gay as well.

IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG

Dubl: Leo Varadkar is leadg the race to bee Ireland's first Indian-orig and also openly gay prime mister, the media reported. The Dubl-born son of an Indian immigrant father and Irish mother, Leo Varadkar beme the first openly gay bet mister Ireland after g out 2015, reported Sky News. We are a natn of hypocril homophob.