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LEADG IRISH POLICIAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER

One of Ireland's most proment policians beme the first mister to announce he is gay, four months before a referendum on whether to allow same-sex marriage the tradnally nservative Catholic untry. * gay irish leader *

DUBLIN (Rters) - One of Ireland’s most proment policians beme the first mister to announce he is gay, four months before a referendum on whether to allow same-sex marriage the tradnally nservative Catholic mister Leo Varadkar, 36, who is wily seen as one of the strongt ntenrs to succeed 63-year-old Prime Mister Enda Kenny as lear of the lg Fe Gael party, ma the announcement an terview wh state broadster RTE on Sunday. “I’m a gay man. It’s not a secret, but ’s not somethg that everyone would necsarily know, ” Varadkar Roman Catholic Church domated Irish polics until the 1980s and the untry only legalized homosexual acts Ireland has bee much more liberal recent years as the Church’s public fluence waned the wake of a strg of child sex abe sndals.

Varadkar said Fe Gael lear Kenny, who December vised a gay bar for his party’s LGBT Christmas party, weled his cisn to make the rponse on social media appeared to be overwhelmgly posive. Proment Irish Government Mister Com Out As Gay: The Two-Way Leo Varadkar, speakg to Irish rad, also says he supports an upg referendum to approve same-sex marriage the tradnally nservative Catholic untry.

PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY

Ireland's Health Mister Leo Varadkar, 36, who has publicly e out as gay.

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

One of Ireland's most proment policians, Health Mister Leo Varadkar, has bee the first ernment mister ever to e out as gay — a move that jt four months before the tradnally nservative Catholic untry holds a natnwi referendum on same-sex marriage. Varadkar, 36, told Ireland's RTE Rad 1 today: "I'm a gay man.

" And, by way of background, the news agency says: "The Roman Catholic Church domated Irish polics until the 1980s and the untry only legalised homosexual acts 1993.

IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE

" The Guardian last month reported that an opn poll, nducted by The Irish Tim, showed 71 percent of Irish electorate would vote y on gay marriage.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY IRISH LEADER

Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Gay Prime Mister, Rigns .

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