Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Gay Prime Mister, Rigns

Contents:

• 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

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.

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.

PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY

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.

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.

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

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.

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

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

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