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Contents:

• IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• IRELAND'S GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM TO BE HELD IN 2015
• HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• IRELAND VOT Y TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IN HISTORIC REFERENDUM
• Y OR NO? IRELAND CIS WHETHER TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• ‘IRELAND MIGHT JT HAVE BEE A GREAT LTLE UNTRY WHICH TO BE GAY’

IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA uple at Dubl Castle on McQuillan/Getty ImagSli 1 of 10 A uple at Dubl Castle on McQuillan/Getty ImagMay 23, 2015DUBLIN — Ireland beme the first natn to approve same-sex marriage by a popular vote, sweepg asi the opposn of the Roman Catholic Church a roundg victory Saturday for the gay rights movement and placg the untry at the vanguard of social the fal ballots unted, the vote was 62 percent favor of legalizg same-sex marriage, and 38 percent opposed. Ireland crimalized homosexualy only 1993, the church domat the tn system, and abortn remas illegal except when a mother’s life is at risk. At the same time, homosexualy is illegal across much of the Middle East and gay rights are unr renewed attack Rsia and parts of rults showed wi and ep support for a measure that had domated public disurse and dner-table nversatn the months before the vote on Friday.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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IRELAND'S GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM TO BE HELD IN 2015

“Throughout my youth, adolcence and young adulthood, was a crimal offense to be gay, ” said David Norris, a 70-year-old Irish senator and longtime said he had faced “total isolatn” as a young man. Though that is a formaly, the date when gay and lbian upl n marry will be termed that was support for the measure across the polil spectm, cludg om Prime Mister Kenny, of the center-right Fe Gael party, and his Labour aln partner, which had phed for the referendum. ”Gay rights activists around the world had said a victory would be an important tone.

One opposn mercial said, “You should be able to have rervatns about gay marriage whout beg lled a homophobe, ” while a mercial supportg same-sex marriage featured young people enuragg their parents to vote. Ireland’s paradigm shift om a quasi theocracy to a lear on gay rights was the rult of a staed mpaign by gay activists.

HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

“Commentators jt don’t seem to have grasped that this has been the culmatn of a 10-year mpaign to change attus this untry, ” said Colm O’Gorman, chief executive of Amnty Internatnal (Ireland) and a leadg gay rights mpaigner. “The personal stori of people’s own ttimoni, as to their difficulti growg up beg gay certaly stck a chord wh people, ” said Jim Walsh, an Irish senator who opposed the marriage referendum, durg a televisn terview.

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IRELAND VOT Y TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE IN HISTORIC REFERENDUM

But whether Labour gas om today’s stunng pro-gay marriage victory pecially greater Dubl is open to O'CarrollThe archbishop of Dubl, Diarmuid Mart, has scribed the almost certa Y fal rult as a wake-up ll for the Catholic church. As is the se many other untri around the world, the issue is a polarizg one Ireland, a untry that didn’t crimalize homosexualy until the 1990s. Gay and lbian upl will now be able to enter to civil marriage, which “is different and distct om relig marriage, ” acrdg to Y Equaly, the umbrella group that spearhead the mpaign.

“No relig stutn n be forced to marry a lbian or gay uple agast their beliefs, ” the group’s webse says. 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. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

Y OR NO? IRELAND CIS WHETHER TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

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.

“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.

‘IRELAND MIGHT JT HAVE BEE A GREAT LTLE UNTRY WHICH TO BE GAY’

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Members of the Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr muny highlight their llg for the troductn of gay marriage Ireland The nstutnal nventn voted last April to remend a change the Constutn to allow for same-sex upl to have a full civil marriage and not jt a civil than 1, 500 upl have secured civil partnerships Ireland sce they were troduced 2010.

Grane Healy, chairman of Marriage Equaly, said she was nfint that the people of Ireland overwhelmgly support the extensn of civil marriage rights to lbian and gay people. “When the people of Ireland vote on this issue 2015, we will be participatg a fal act of legal regnn of the full equaly of our gay and lbian lleagu and neighbours, iends and fay, ” he Iona Instute, which scrib self as a pro-marriage, pro-relign thk-tank, said brgg the reform was about refg marriage. Mister for Fance Michael Noonan said he also supported the prciple of gay marriage and had no objectn to .

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