Gay sex was crimalised 2018 but the topic of same-sex marriage remas highly sensive, wh tensns nng high before a Supreme Court hearg on Monday. Leaked documents suggt the ernment oppos legal regnn.
Contents:
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
- WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
- GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER
- WHY AN OPENLY GAY PM SUCH AS LEO VARADKAR IS AN IMPOSSIBILY INDIA
- GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
- SUPREME COURT REVEALS GOVT OBJECTNS: ‘GAY… POSTS CRIL OF PM MODI’
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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India's top urt crimalised homosexualy a historic verdict 2018 by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex, followg years of activism and latt se is seen as an important tone the velopment of LGBT rights India, home to 1. India's first openly gay prce says parents wanted him to have 'nversn bra surgery'.
The issue is still highly sensive: speakg openly about homosexualy is still taboo for many the socially nservative least 15 pleas, some by gay upl, askg the urt to regnise same-sex marriag have been filed recent months, settg the stage for this legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment. Sgapore last year end a ban on gay sex but took steps to bar same-sex is the only untry among the Group of Seven (G7) natns that do not legally regnise same-sex unns, although the public broadly favours India, the issue has fuelled tensns the media and parliament, where a member of Modi's lg Hdu natnalist party December asked the ernment to strongly oppose the petns filed the top activists argue that while the 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, is unjt that they still miss out on legal backg for their marriag - a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married upl.
LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
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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.
WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
Leo Varadkar is an Irish physician and polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay prime mister 2017. He oversaw a robt enomy and sought to migate the impact of Brex on Ireland, but his populary was unrmed by the untry’s signifint hog crisis. * gay indian pm *
Leo Varadkar, (born January 18, 1979, Dubl, Ireland), Irish polician who beme lear of the Fe Gael party and Ireland’s first openly gay taoiseach (prime mister) June 2017. The tensely private Varadkar ma headl January 2015 when durg an appearance on Irish natnal rad (RTÉ) he announced that he was gay:.
GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER
The lear of a Hdu group that is the parent anisatn of India's lg party has e out support of the gay and transgenr muny, days before the ernment is due to rpond to the Supreme Court about petns to legalise same-sex marriage. * gay indian pm *
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter.
WHY AN OPENLY GAY PM SUCH AS LEO VARADKAR IS AN IMPOSSIBILY INDIA
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Varadkar explaed to listeners, the procs beg the untry’s first openly gay ernment mister. The announcement me some four months before Irish voters approved legalizatn of same-sex marriage a natnal referendum, but had been only jt over two s sce homosexualy had been crimalized Ireland.
When his nomatn was approved the Dáil by a vote of 57 to 50 (wh 45 abstentns) on June 14, Varadkar, at age 38, beme the youngt taoiseach Ireland’s history as well as s first openly gay taoiseach and the first to be a member of an ethnic mory. The son of an Indian immigrant who me out as gay 2015 will be the next Irish prime mister, after he was voted lear of the untry’s ma erng Varadkar’s victory the Fe Gael learship ntt on Friday, which took place after outgog PM Enda Kenny announced his rignatn last month, marks another signifint step forward for equaly the untry, after 2015’s gay marriage well as beg Ireland’s first gay prime mister, Varadkar, 38, will also bee the untry’s youngt lear, and the first om an ethnic mory background. Although Varadkar’s centre-right polics are clearly nservative, he portrays the image of a new, progrsive Ireland, symbolised bt May 2015 when the Republic voted overwhelmgly favour of gay marriage.
“I thk ’s really signifint that both his party and the media Ireland foced on his polici, rather than him simply beg a gay man who wants to lead the untry, ” said Brian Fnegan, the edor of Gay Communy News Dubl. “It is a sign of how much Ireland has changed and moved on that no one really r if he is gay here. Irish policians were among the last sectors of our society to e out of the closet but now at least we’ve got one gay man and a lbian, Cathere Zappone, both the bet.
GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such marriag. * gay indian pm *
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician, or a gay polician, for that matter. Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Indian-orig polician, beme the Prime Mister of Ireland on Saturday. Leo Varadkar, who was born 1979, beme the first openly gay Taoiseach June 2017.
In 2017, when he beme the Irish Prime Mister for the first time, Varadkar created history by beg the first openly gay man to hold the office of Taoiseach. "I am not a half-Indian polician or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter. What mak Varadkar's elevatn remarkable is that an openly gay polician has now occupied the top post of Ireland, a untry domated by stnch Catholic valu, not once, but twice.
Varadkar, the Dubl-born son of an Indian immigrant father and Irish mother, beme the first openly gay bet mister Ireland after g out mpaigned on same-sex marriage and liberalisg abortn laws, although like the majory of his party lleagu, he is an advote of tight fisl 38-year-old won early support for his learship bid om several senr bet members and a majory of his parliamentary lleagu publicly backed said Friday: "I'm not untg my chickens.
IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
Gtam Raghavan, a gay Indian-Amerin, will be the hight-rankg out member of the Whe Hoe staff when he advanc to director of the Office of Printial Personnel.
Gtam Raghavan, a gay Indian-Amerin who served as a Whe Hoe LGBTQ+ liaison Print Barack Obama's admistratn, has been appoted puty director of the Office of Printial Personnel by Print-elect Joe posn is "key to intifyg, recg and vettg the more than 4, 000 polil appotments across the feral ernment, " acrdg to a prs release om the LGBTQ Victory Instute, which provis trag and learship velopment to LGBTQ+ people polics.
C., wh his hband and their LGBTQ+ appote by Bin clu lbians Kare Jean-Pierre and Pili Tobar, who will be on the Whe Hoe munitns staff; Carlos Elizondo, a gay man who will be Whe Hoe social secretary; and gay man Pete Buttigieg, his nomee for secretary of Transportatn, who will require nfirmatn by the Senate. Buttigieg has been a member of Bin's transn team as people workg the transn also clu ary veteran Shawn Skelly, a transgenr woman; attorneys Chai Feldblum, a lbian, and Pamela Karlan, a bisexual woman; and Dave Noble, a gay polil activist who worked the Obama admistratn.
SUPREME COURT REVEALS GOVT OBJECTNS: ‘GAY… POSTS CRIL OF PM MODI’
REUTERS/Adnan AbidiNEW DELHI, Jan 11 (Rters) - The lear of a Hdu group that is the parent anisatn of India's lg party has e out support of the gay and transgenr muny, days before the ernment is due to rpond to the Supreme Court about petns to legalise same-sex crimalised homosexualy when scrapped a lonial-era ban on gay sex 2018, but remas a taboo topic this socially nservative untry of 1. Speakg to an RSS-backed magaze published this week, Bhagwat said the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny "should have their own private and social space as they are humans and have the right to live as others" ced Hdu scriptur and mythology as the basis of his support, and add: "Whout much hullabaloo, we have found a way wh a humane approach to provi them social acceptance.
The anisatn was behd Modi's rise to month, India's Supreme Court started hearg petns to regnise same-sex marriag after four gay upl stated that whout legal regnn, they n not have accs to rights such as those lked to medil nsent, pensns, adoptn or even club memberships.
Jun 03, 2017 02:01 PM IST There are no openly gay policians India, maly bee non-normative sexual or genr orientatn is nsired a ath knell for one’s reer January 2015, Dubl, Ireland: The untry’s health mister Leo Varadkar has jt ma history by g out as gay on a live natnal rad broadst. Ireland's erng Fe Gael party has elected Leo Varadkar, the gay son of an Indian immigrant, as s new lear and the untry's next prime mister. (AP) January 2015, Panaji, India: Goa youth affairs mister Ramh Tawadkar has jt clared settg up “gay cure” centr to al wh homosexual youth.