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- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- FIRST EVER OPENLY GAY MEMBERS ELECTED TO IRISH PARLIAMENT
- IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
- IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD
- LEADG IRISH POLICIAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
- PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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The son of an Indian immigrant has ma Irish history by beg the untry’s youngt and first openly gay prime Varadkar, 38, was formally elected taoiseach at a nfirmatn ceremony the Dáil Dubl after he won the Fe Gael party learship earlier this month. Next week Domic Hannigan and John Lyons will enter the newly elected Irish ernment as the first openly gay policians elected as members of Parliament Ireland.
FIRST EVER OPENLY GAY MEMBERS ELECTED TO IRISH PARLIAMENT
Next week Domic Hannigan and John Lyons will enter the newly elected Irish ernment as the first openly gay ... * gay politicians in ireland *
Pl McConnell, -chair of the Labor LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) group said, "History was also ma the electn of not one but two openly gay (members)... In the past Ireland had openly gay senators and later this year the untry uld have s first gay print, Senator David Norris, who is a leadg ndidate to replace outgog Print Mary McAlee.
A ph for gay marriage rights is set to beg when the new ernment tak over Natnal Lbian & Gay Feratn (NLGF) has urged the two parti likely to be ernment to m to legislate for civil marriage for same-sex-upl. NLGF chair Ailbhe Smyth said, “Fe Gael and the Labor Party have a duty to legislate for equal civil marriage rights for lbian and gay people. Discrimatg agast lbian and gay people this regard is not acceptable”.
IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old the untry's first gay premier youngt person to hold the office. * gay politicians in ireland *
Irish public support for equal marriage rights for gays has grown over the last few years, om 51% October 2006 to 67% September 2010, acrdg to an “Irish Tim” poll. 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.
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. He also beme the first openly gay man elected to lead the Republic of Ireland, where homosexualy was illegal until jt 24 years ago.
That the most proment polil lears Ireland were more than happy to be given the opportuny durg Pri Month to talk ‘gay polics’ is perhaps further ttament to the much more socially liberal Ireland that we thankfully now live , and a far cry ed om earlier s when brave voic like Noel Browne and Mary Robson stood virtually alone advotg for the rights of a beleaguered and crimalised muny.
IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay politicians in ireland *
For his part, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar spoke of beg a target of onle racist and homophobic abe and how social media platforms were failg abysmally that regard.
A young gay man who shadowed the Taoiseach for a day and who told of his experienc of homophobic bullyg left a real imprsn on Micheál Mart and unrled for him the importance of a culture of equaly permeatg the entire school muny. The appallg state sanctned anti-LGBTQ+ discrimatn beg ratcheted up Hungary and Poland was another strong fol pot of our terviews, wh the thorarian ernment Budapt havg jt enacted a Rsian-style homophobic law ntraventn of basic European laws and valu. He said he is very much of the ‘Joe Bin school of thought’ that the World is beg creasgly polarized between those who support liberal mocracy and those, like the Orban ernment Hungary, who are advancg reactnary thorarianism – which homophobia is a major feature of.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Ireland is to get s youngt prime mister, and the first who is openly gay. * gay politicians in ireland *
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar told me how the lead- to the historic 2015 marriage referendum was the talyst for his g out polics as a gay man.
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IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD
DUBLIN — Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the once-stnchly Catholic untry's first gay premier and the youngt person to hold the office. "Enda Kenny's learship enabled me to bee an equal cizen my own untry two short years ago and to aspire to hold this office, an aspiratn I once thought was beyond my reach, at least if I chose to be myself, " Varadkar said reference to Ireland's 2015 vote to legalize gay marriage. 6 ln people that only crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalized divorce two years later.
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.
”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.
LEADG IRISH POLICIAN BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
” 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.
PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
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!
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.
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