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.
Contents:
- WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
- LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
- OPN THE SHAMEFUL WARDICE OF INDIA’S POLICIANS ON GAY RIGHTS
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- WHY AN OPENLY GAY PM SUCH AS LEO VARADKAR IS AN IMPOSSIBILY INDIA
- IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
- INDIAN-ORIG GAY MISTER LEO VARADKAR SET TO BEE IRELAND PM
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
Wh the Centre agast appotg lawyer Srabh Kirpal as Delhi HC judge bee he is gay, a look at the evolutn of BJP lears’ posn on crimalisg homosexualy. * gay indian politician *
Gtam Raghavan is an openly gay Indian Amerin polil advisor.
LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
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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.
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.
OPN THE SHAMEFUL WARDICE OF INDIA’S POLICIANS ON GAY RIGHTS
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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.
IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
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 politician *
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. 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.
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WHY AN OPENLY GAY PM SUCH AS LEO VARADKAR IS AN IMPOSSIBILY INDIA
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March 30, 2011 -- Was Mahatma Gandhi gay? In a bgraphy that h stor this week -- "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Stggle Wh India, " former New York Tim reporter Lelyveld sists that Gandhi was gay, or at least lover was Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish archect and bodybuilr. ""And if he's a god, how n he be homosexual?
"The Hdu relign, jt as Christiany, owns upon homosexualy, acrdg to Chakrabarty, who has wrten several books about Gandhi.
IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
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But India today, discrimatn agast gays is illegal and many are open about their sexual Levyveld's book, the lovers' nicknam to each other were "Upper Hoe" and "Lower Hoe, " suggtg one may have been a stronger posn of book says Gandhi may have been the one to "thk ep thoughts" and Kallenbach was more preoccupied wh "matters of physil fns and everythg that's down to earth.
As the BJP nears almost a of s le at the Centre, the foc is back on the party’s stance on crimalisg homosexualy after the Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday rejected the Unn ernment’s objectns to appotg senr advote Srabh Kirpal as the judge of the Delhi High ernment objected to Kirpal’s appotment bee of his sexual orientatn — if appoted, he uld be India’s first openly gay judge — and bee his partner is a cizen of 2013, the Supreme Court reversed the Delhi High Court’s verdict Surh Kohal vs Unn of India, which said that Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co nnot punish sex between two nsentg adults, reasong that Parliament n crimalise homosexualy but not the urt.
INDIAN-ORIG GAY MISTER LEO VARADKAR SET TO BEE IRELAND PM
In the aftermath of that judgment, Rajnath Sgh, now the Defence Mister, gave an terview on December 15, 2013, which he said, “We support Sectn 377 bee we believe that homosexualy is an unnatural act and nnot be supported.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Adyanath, at the time a Lok Sabha MP, told reporters outsi Parliament that he was opposed to any move to crimalise homosexualy.
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.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
“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.