As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
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- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
- IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
- LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
- WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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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:.
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter.
IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
Leo Varadkar is an Irish physician and polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay prime mister 2017. He oversaw a robt enomy and sought to migate the impact of Brex on Ireland, but his populary was unrmed by the untry’s signifint hog crisis. * ireland gay leader *
Varadkar explaed to listeners, the procs beg the untry’s first openly gay ernment mister.
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.
He also beme the first openly gay man elected to lead the Republic of Ireland, where homosexualy was illegal until jt 24 years ago. 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. 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.
IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old the untry's first gay premier youngt person to hold the office. * ireland gay leader *
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. DUBLIN — Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the once-stnchly Catholic untry's first gay premier and the youngt person to hold the office.
"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. 6 ln people that only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalized divorce two years later. Higgs he’ll be the first gay lear Irish history and the first non-whe head of ernment wtern Europe.
It’s a heady cktail of historil firsts; Ireland only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and 92% of the populatn clared themselv whe the last cens - the same percentage as Iowa. It is thought much of the grassroots opposn among rank and file was bee he was gay. Before 2011 no openly LGBT polician had ever been elected to Dáil Éireann and he beme the first gay bet mister when he me out to plds early 2015.
LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
Ireland’s new Prime Mister is the first gay lear Irish history and the first non-whe head of ernment wtern Europe. What do he believe and stand for? * ireland gay leader *
That might make him an ternatnal gay in but much of Ireland’s LGBT muny tilts strongly to the left and have ltle time for the man.
WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
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Even if Leo Varadkar is the first gay Taoiseach n we all jt, like........
First gays to say they're "exced about the prospect of a gay Taoiseach" are SO much trouble.
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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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.
IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD
"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.
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.