7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt

Contents:

• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY
• IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
• PENCE HOSTS OPENLY GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER AND HIS PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST
• GAY POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH PRINT
• MIKE PENCE MEETS WH IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
• GAY SENATOR LEADS RACE FOR IRELAND PRINT
• PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
• COULD DAVID NORRIS BEE IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• GAY POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH PRINT

IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED

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, (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. 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. 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.

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

” 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.

GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY

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 ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. 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. Print Joe Bin weled Ireland’s gay prime mister, known as the Taoiseach, to the Whe Hoe on St.

Bin also regnized on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, which assisted endg the nflict, lled the Troubl, over whether Northern Ireland would separate om the Uned Kgdom and jo also gifted Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s first gay head of ernment, a bowl of shamrocks, which the AP not has been a tradn sce print greeted Varadkar wh dyed water the South Lawn founta meetg Bin, Varadkar praised the U.

IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE

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A major effort is unrway to elect Senator David Norris, the Dubl-based polician, as the first openly gay print of Ireland.

Norris, 65, a former Try College Dubl lecturer who has led the mpaign for gay rights Ireland for a generatn, is a highly rpected figure both lerary and polil circl known equally for his Joycean expertise as his advocy of liberal . “From some of the gay muny Ameri was, ‘Well done for nontg Vice Print Pence wh the realy of morn relatnships. The meetg between the gay uple and the Send Fay of the Uned Stat me right after Pence’s staff attempted to e the meetg to prove that he was more LGBTQ-iendly than believed.

PENCE HOSTS OPENLY GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER AND HIS PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST

“I’ve sat at tabl wh people who would gladly ny me the right to marry, who openly support nversn therapy, and who adamantly believe beg gay is a choice, ” Chasten Buttigieg said of that. “Don’t mean they’re any ls homophobic bee we shared a meal. The now-42 year old admted that already feelg othered ma him hope he wasn’t actually gay.

GAY POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH PRINT

Vice Print Pence hosted the openly gay prime mister of Ireland and his partner for breakfast at the Naval Observatory Thursday. His meetg wh Pence drew attentn given that Varadkar is one of the few openly gay world lears, while Pence has been equently cricized for supportg anti-LGBTQ posns. Although Pence has hosted Varadkar before, this is the first time the vice print has hosted the partner of an openly gay world lear.

MIKE PENCE MEETS WH IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER

The Irish prime mister, Leo Varadkar, who is gay, brought his partner to a meetg on Thursday wh the US vice-print, Mike Pence, a nservative Christian once dubbed “the face of anti-LGBTQ hate Ameri”. Durg a nversatn on gay rights wh legal scholars, Tmp once terpted and gtured to Pence, sayg, “Don’t ask that guy – he wants to hang them all!

” acrdg to the New ’s anti-LGBT bona fis clu supportg so-lled nversn therapy, to signg a relig eedom bill that would have worked as a license to discrimate agast gay people. Ireland may be on s way to elect a gay print after the first opn poll the race showed Senator David Norris, a Dubl-based gay activist, well-ahead. The Joyce scholar and gay rights mpaigner is an pennt senator reprentg Try College the Irish senate and has never been nsired a ndidate for natnal office.

GAY SENATOR LEADS RACE FOR IRELAND PRINT

Norris is most famo for takg the Irish ernment to the European Court to crimalize homosexualy.

Vice Print Mike Pence, a noted opponent of LGBT rights, met Ireland’s first gay prime mister Thursday, acrdg to footage of the awkward enunter tweeted by reporter Shane Beatty. He would be Ireland's first openly gay print. Former IRA lol manr-turned-polician Mart McGuns will have to feat an openly gay senator and a popular Labour party polician, among others, if he is to bee print of the Republic of Ireland, emerged Wednday as the electn ballot was falized.

Norris – tipped to be the untry’s first openly gay head of state – got onto the ballot, thanks to an 11th-hour terventn by his rival Higgs. The other ndidat the electn are Gay Mchell of the ma lg party Fe Gael and two more pennts, Mary Davis and Sean Gallagher. The new print of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, clared an anti-gay tira 2014 that same-sex relatns are “nothg but savagery.

PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY

For example, Ebrahim Raisi, who is now Iran’s print, said 2014 (when he head Iran’s judiciary) that homosexualy is ‘nothg but savagery. ”He add, “Endg the ath penalty and the crimalizatn of homosexualy should be ma addnal prendns for the liftg of sanctns on Iran.

”In 2019, the Post reported that the Islamic Republic publicly hanged a man based on the Iranian regime’s anti-gay law. ”Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-Amerin human rights activist, told the Post that “ the last s, the Islamic Republic of Iran is embolned and fends s stand agast homosexualy and nmns the Wtern untri for what they ll ‘savage acts, ner rptn, ’ and a ncrete example of the failure of Wtern civilizatn moral matters. ” She said the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Lear Ali Khamenei issued the anti-gay quot ced.

Bazargan add that “the reprsn of homosexuals will ntue until Europe and the Uned Stat al serly wh this Islamic liphate and s barbaric laws, which date back to 1, 400 years ago.

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

(cred: FAUSTO TORREALBA/REUTERS)Zarif said 2019 rponse to a qutn about executg homosexuals, “Our society has moral prcipl, and we live acrdg to the prcipl. Ali Larijani, the former speaker of Iran’s parliament, said January 2011 that the ath penalty for homosexualy was “effective keepg society safe om perversn. Proment Irish Government Mister Com Out As Gay: The Two-Way Leo Varadkar, speakg to Irish rad, also says he supports an upg referendum to approve same-sex marriage the tradnally nservative Catholic untry.

Ireland's Health Mister Leo Varadkar, 36, who has publicly e out as gay. One of Ireland's most proment policians, Health Mister Leo Varadkar, has bee the first ernment mister ever to e out as gay — a move that jt four months before the tradnally nservative Catholic untry holds a natnwi referendum on same-sex marriage. Varadkar, 36, told Ireland's RTE Rad 1 today: "I'm a gay man.

IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE

" And, by way of background, the news agency says: "The Roman Catholic Church domated Irish polics until the 1980s and the untry only legalised homosexual acts 1993. " The Guardian last month reported that an opn poll, nducted by The Irish Tim, showed 71 percent of Irish electorate would vote y on gay marriage. He would have bee the first openly gay print anywhere the world.

Alongsi the gay tellectual is the former IRA lear who is a polician another untry, an entreprenr who was born virtually bld and now judg Ireland's versn of Dragons' Den, and Dana Rosemary Sllon, a former Irish MEP and the sger of that wng Eurovisn ndidate seekg to follow the revered Mary McAlee and Mary Robson to the princy has found their liv beg picked over for any whiff of sndal.

COULD DAVID NORRIS BEE IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT?

He ma his name mpaigng for the crimalisatn of homosexualy, a brave and lonely battle that began the 1970s and end wh his victory the European urt 1988. The Irish law crimalisg homosexualy was fally repealed 1993.

"I don't want to be elected as a gay print.

I'm not gog to be a gay print. I'm gog to be a print who happens to be gay, " Norris says when he fally ps for a cup of earl grey after his day of mpaigng. "I was the first person the world to be elected to a natnal parliament who happened to be openly gay.

GAY POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH PRINT

Fe Gael's ndidate, Gay Mchell, was send-last place a recent Irish Tim poll spe the backg of the biggt party the untry. "Jt as Mary Robson "didn't have to go bleatg about human rights for the rt of her reer" after she was elected print, so Norris promis a visn far broar than gay rights. Over qutns of his physil fns for office, he says he is fully revered; he is a f refal to ll this media sndalmongerg homophobic – "I don't feel they are hostile agast me personally" – is probably an attempt to dismiss the charge that he is unstatmanlike.

The son of an Indian immigrant, he me out publicly as gay 2015, beg the first openly gay Irish ernment mister and the first Irish mister of Indian orig.

His appotment as the prime mister is signifint the polil history of Ireland due to several reasons; he is not only the untry’s first openly gay Taoiseach, but also the youngt and the first of Indian orig.