Timele: A history of gay rights Ireland ·

Contents:

• IRELAND PRIME MISTER URG Y VOTE GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
• IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD

IRELAND PRIME MISTER URG Y VOTE GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM

Ireland’s prime mister, Enda Kenny, has ma a fal plea for a y vote the referendum to legalise gay taoiseach told the Irish electorate on Wednday night: “There is nothg to fear for votg for love and equaly. Photograph: Shawn Pogatchnik/APThe republic is the only untry the world where the electorate will ci whether to make gay marriage legal. Earlier, at his Fe Gael party’s last prs nference of the mpaign, Kenny said he had “no tentn of beg a gay in” over his strong support for a Y also rejected suggtns om those opposed to gay marriage that relig schools would be forced to teach about the validy of same-sex marriag.

Civil law is a separate matter and there may be qutns asked any school about the civil law, ” Kenny claims by No mpaigners that children uld be forcibly adopted by gay married upl, Kenny said the terts of the child would not be changed any way if there was a Y vote.

Meanwhile, the pro-gay marriage mpaign groups are claimg that a late surge voter registratn will boost the Y e.

IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD

Timele: A history of gay rights Ireland. Leo Varadkar beg Ireland’s first openly gay mister 22 years after the crimalisatn of homosexualy Ireland. YESTERDAY MINISTER FOR Health Leo Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay bet member.

The Mister’s cisn to go public wh his sexualy jt over twenty years after the crimilisatn of homosexualy the Irish state. For most of Ireland’s history, s laws agast homosexualy dated om the Victorian era and were held over for more than 140 years. This movement was known as the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform and aimed at crimalisg homosexualy Ireland and Northern Ireland.

In the urse of the movement, Dubl Universy Gay Society was set up – a group that is still nng today, albe unr a different moniker.