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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.

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

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.

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

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. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

”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!

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

”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.

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

“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.

GAY POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH 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.

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

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. From Your Se Articl31 LGBTQ+ Lears From World History ›Ireland's Gay PM to Mike Pence: 'We Are All God's Children' ›Mike Pence D Wh Ireland's Openly Gay Lear, Leo Varadkar ›Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Gay Prime Mister, Rigns ›Gay Man Elected as Print of Latvia ›.

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.

GAY SENATOR LEADS RACE FOR IRELAND PRINT

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.

PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY

“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.

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

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.

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

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!

COULD DAVID NORRIS BEE IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT?

” 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 POL DAVID NORRIS AHEAD POLL FOR IRISH 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.