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.
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- LEADG IRISH POLICIAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
- PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
LEADG IRISH POLICIAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
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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.
PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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. Ireland's Health Mister Leo Varadkar, 36, who has publicly e out as gay. 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.
IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
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.
" 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. 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.