Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Mister on Wednday, makg the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the first gay premier of the once-stnchly Catholic untry and the youngt person to hold the office.
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- INDIAN-ORIG GAY MISTER LEO VARADKAR SET TO BE IRELAND'S PRIME MISTER
- GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER
- IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
- 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
- IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
- GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
- LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
- I’M GLAD A GAY MAN OF LOUR WILL BE IRISH PRIME MISTER, EVEN IF I ABHOR HIS POLICS
- LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
- LEO VARADKAR IS IRELAND’S NEW PRIME MISTER. HE’S ALSO OPENLY GAY AND AN IMMIGRANT’S SON.
- LEO VARADKAR, SON OF AN INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
- LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
- IRELAND: GAY MAN OF INDIAN-ORIG LEO VARADKAR RACE TO BEE PRIME MISTER
INDIAN-ORIG GAY MISTER LEO VARADKAR SET TO BE IRELAND'S PRIME MISTER
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GAY INDIAN-ORIG LEADS RACE TO BEE NEW IRISH PRIME MISTER
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homosexual. 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.
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. 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.
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. * ireland gay indian leader *
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. 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:.
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter.
Varadkar explaed to listeners, the procs beg the untry’s first openly gay ernment mister.
WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
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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.
LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
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“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.
I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician, or a gay polician, for that matter. 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.
IRISH PM LEO VARADKAR IS GAY, NSERVATIVE — AND OF INDIAN ORIG
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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. We are a natn of hypocril homophob. Leo Varadkar uld not have been an openly gay polician India, leave alone prime Irish have elected a new Taoiseach, or Prime Mister, whose name is Leo Varadkar and whose father was an Indian immigrant.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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A parliamentary vote on June 14 nfirmed the 38-year-old, Ireland’s youngt PM and first openly gay lear.
IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER FORMALLY TAK OFFICE
His homosexualy did not dampen the enthiasm to claim him as one of our own. This is why are a natn of hypocril homophob.
GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
Leo Varadkar uld not have been an openly gay polician India, leave alone prime mister. In fact, he uldn’t have been openly gay. Remember Article 377, which even 2017 ntu to crimalise homosexualy?
If we, as a natn, slap ourselv on our backs on the achievements of our gay immigrants, while crimalizg those back home, that hypocrisy needs to be talked about. And the ease wh which the Indian media the phrase, “openly gay, ” needs to be talked about as well.
LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
We don’t feel proud about our openly gay people. How many of will be fortable wh our sons and dghters beg openly gay?
Tth is, we nnot celebrate Varadkar’s polil succs whout also notg, the evable same breath, that he is Ireland’s first gay mister. The symbolic importance of this nnot be over-emphasised a untry where homosexuals and lbians have been ridiculed, bullied and killed for their sexual preferenc.
A search for “openly gay Indian policians’ leads to – y, you gused , to Leo Varadkar. For India’s gay muny, this isn’t merely about symbolism.
I’M GLAD A GAY MAN OF LOUR WILL BE IRISH PRIME MISTER, EVEN IF I ABHOR HIS POLICS
Priyam, a 28 year old gay person I spoke to, poted out that “majorarianism is creasgly fg standards for moraly India. Varadkar, himself, had this to say about his sexual orientatn, when he first me out as gay 2015: “It’s not somethg that f me.
LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S FIRST GAY LEAR AND AN EMIGRANT'S SON, SPARKS INDIA CELEBRATN
Robbie Lawlor, a Dubl based activist and former Mr Gay Ireland, workg on HIV awarens, put his fger on the button when he said, “All that symbolism is great, but wh great shame as his polil views are very nservative.
LEO VARADKAR IS IRELAND’S NEW PRIME MISTER. HE’S ALSO OPENLY GAY AND AN IMMIGRANT’S SON.
Varadkar’s stat as the son of an Indian immigrant should be far ls important – to India and the world – than the fact that he is agast women’s reproductive rights, has monstrated a track rerd of beg anti-workg class and even has rervatns agast gay people adoptg children. Still, Varadkar’s ascensn to the top job polics is as much a vote favour of Ireland’s liberal crentials, which crimalized homosexualy 1993 and legalised same sex marriage 2015.
In the same year Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Mister. Even if all hell fally breaks loose and Kaliyug shows s te lours, the possibily of an openly gay or lbian polician India is remote. Across the polil spectm, allegatns about sexism and homophobia rema unaddrsed.
LEO VARADKAR, SON OF AN INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE IRELAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
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.
LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME 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. 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. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.
IRELAND: GAY MAN OF INDIAN-ORIG LEO VARADKAR RACE TO BEE PRIME MISTER
“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.
Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. He also beme the first openly gay man elected to lead the Republic of Ireland, where homosexualy was illegal until jt 24 years ago.
At 36, he publicly me out as gay. Homosexualy was only crimalized Ireland 1993. Senator David Norris, 73, the first Irish polician to publicly e out as gay told CNN that he unrstands why Varadkar wants to foc on polici and not his personal life.