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Contents:
- HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- YEARS AFTER LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE, IRELAND FALLY REMOV HOMOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNISTIC TEACHG MATERIAL
- IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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Mr Varadkar revealed publilly durg the referendum mpaign that he was gay.
“I would like to have seen that the rights of gay and lbian men and women uld have been rpected whout changg the fn of marriage. Senator Filma Healy Eam, who also mpaigned for a No vote, said the referendum “for me was never anti-gay”.
YEARS AFTER LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE, IRELAND FALLY REMOV HOMOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNISTIC TEACHG MATERIAL
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She said she had swched her vote om Y to No simply bee of her ncerns around nstutnal change and s effect on a child’s No advocy group Mothers and Fathers Matter exprsed “warm ngratulatns” to the Y si but said that one three Irish people - the vote rat - were not reprented by the polil mpaigner and Fianna Fáil Senator Averil Power said gay mpaigners who told their stori on the doorsteps of voters had “helped to change Ireland for all of ”, not jt the gay said she had seen many of them rced to tears by the experience they had durg the mpaign. Senator David Norris, who fought om the 1970s to 1993 to have homosexualy crimalised, weled the rult. “I believe that by the end of today gay people will be equal this untry.
IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
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Homosexualy and abortn were crimal offens. The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was found the 1970s, but s early activi took place agast an often hostile social and polil background. Homophobic attacks were relatively rare, but the murrs of Declan Flynn and Charl Self the 1980s were attributed to homophobic vlence.
In 1988, David Norris—then a member of the Seanad, the upper hoe of parliament—won a se before the European Court of Human Rights which led to the crimalizatn of homosexualy 1993. Ireland was one of the last stat Wtern Europe to crimalize homosexualy.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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In 1981, 62 percent of the populatn was strongly opposed to homosexualy, but this had dropped to 38 percent by 2000. Ultimately, the bill to crimalize homosexualy was not opposed by any of the ma parti when proceed through parliament.
The Gay and Lbian Equaly Network had been advotg for equal rights om the 1980s, and embarked on a profsnal and well-fund mpaign promotg full marriage rights which would heavily fluence the cisn to hold a referendum. Openly gay members of the Dáil and Seanad had been elected at several electns by 2015; most proment among them is Leo Varadkar, who me out as a gay man 2015 while a ernment mister and was subsequently elected prime mister 2017.
In 2018, Ireland ma to the top five statns for gay honeymoons, and is also nsired to be one of the saft statns for holidays for LGBT tourists.
IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
A long-nng urt se Northern Ireland, which is part of the Uned Kgdom, volved a dispute about whether a bakery engaged discrimatn when refed to bake a ke wh a pro-gay marriage msage on .
After all, Ireland, a tradnally nservative Catholic untry, only crimalized homosexualy 1993. Mister for Health Leo Varadkar publicly revealed he was gay for the first time durg the mpaign and lled the w a “historil day.
It’s been over 25 years sce the crimalizatn of homosexualy Ireland and not that many years sce Ireland led the way by beg one of the first untri to support same-sex marriage. Homosexual activy was only crimalized Ireland 1993! Gay marriage has only been legalized Ireland for four years (almost).