Openly Gay Lear Leo Varadkar to Bee Irish PM for Send Time - News18

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
• MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA
• OPENLY GAY LEAR LEO VARADKAR TO BEE IRISH PM FOR SEND TIME
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY POLICIANS?
• I’M GLAD A GAY MAN OF LOUR WILL BE IRISH PRIME MISTER, EVEN IF I ABHOR HIS POLICS
• GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI
• IRELAND'S GAY LEAR, LEO VARADKAR, RUM MEDIL PRACTICE CRISIS

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. 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. ”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!

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

”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.

MEET DR. JSE EHRENFELD: A JEWISH VETERAN, AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT OF THE AMA

“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. Q: Did you ever experience antisemism, homophobia, or mockery of beg a Republin?

Retag his sense of humour through the termable unt he scribed as “the agony and the ex-TD” long time nstuency lleague and rival Gay Mchell of Fe Gael scribed Brise after his ath as a pleasant and charmg man who loved his native cyThe oute had huge polil signifince at the time as the failure of Byrne to be elected put an end to the prospects of a rabow aln volvg Democratic Left, Labour and Fe Gael.

All three were advot for the state of Israel a chamber not noted for sympathy for their long time nstuency lleague and rival Gay Mchell of Fe Gael scribed Brise after his ath as a pleasant and charmg man who loved his native cy. (File Photo: Rters)Varadkar, who is mixed race, openly gay and is still one of Ireland's youngt ever lears even his send stt the role, steps up om puty premier on Varadkar tak over for the send time as Ireland’s prime mister this weekend, a handover of power between the two ma polil partners the three-party erng aln.

OPENLY GAY LEAR LEO VARADKAR TO BEE IRISH PM FOR SEND TIME

Varadkar, who is mixed race, openly gay and is still one of Ireland’s youngt ever lears even his send stt the role, steps up om puty premier on rotatn between 43-year-old Varadkar’s Fe Gael and current premier Micheal Mart’s Fianna Fail parti is unprecented Irish centre-right parti were fed om opposg sis the Irish Civil War the early 20th agreed to the rotatg premiership as part of a aln wh Ireland’s Greens followg 2020 electns. A December poll for Ireland’s Sunday Inpennt dited 43 percent of rponnts were favour of Mart remag power, agast 34 percent for Varadkar’s backers pot to his experience steerg the natn through the ronavis panmic and the aftermath of the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European ceilgsVaradkar’s rise to the top of Irish polics was remarkable a untry domated by a strict, nservative Catholic moraly well to the latter half of the last 38, he beme the untry’s youngt Taoiseach as well as s first openly gay head of ernment and first of Indian herage.

“I am a gay man, ’s not a secret, but not somethg that everyone would necsarily know, " Varadkar told RTE at the time. When a Meath Dail ndidate joed a Gay Pri para wh his partner, barely an eyebrow was raised.

So why is only one member of the 226-strong Oireachtas openly homosexual?

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY POLICIANS?

His work perdilly vered homosexual referenc and his personal life dit his attractn for men.

Rory O’Neill is famoly regnized as the drag queen Panti Bliss and is also a gay rights activist. Origally om Ballrobe, County Mayo, O’Neill grew up a small town and me out as gay his 20s. ” Norton is openly gay, workg as a prenter for TV and rad.

He me out as gay to the general public 2009 but to his clost fay and iends at the age of 16. Polil lear Leo Varadkar publicly me out as gay 2015 and was an avid advote for the same-sex referendum.

I’M GLAD A GAY MAN OF LOUR WILL BE IRISH PRIME MISTER, EVEN IF I ABHOR HIS POLICS

Leo Varadkar, who is gay and half-Indian, has won the learship ntt of Ireland’s Fe Gael party, and, aged jt 38, is set to bee the republic’s youngt taoiseach. Left-leang folk Ireland are hoarse tryg to expla to the faraways that, y, we unrstand the optics – but this is Ireland, land of the topsy-turvy, where the electn of a gay person of lour at the same time signals the entrenchment of anti-woman, anti-workg-class stery-as-ual. But I feel the followg simple observatn is necsary: we n celebrate the fact that Ireland’s next lear will be a gay man of lour, even while we prott his polics.

Ireland only crimalised homosexualy 1993. The public atmosphere was such that the Fe Gael member of parliament Pl McGrath uld stand up the Dáil and crloly proclaim: “Are we now to see exhibns public by homosexuals? Ireland now has gay marriage (voted for, I am proud to say, by 62% of the populatn), some of the world’s most progrsive trans regnn legislatn, and an openly gay prumptive taoiseach.

GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI

In arad terview he gave after g out, he said: “I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician, for that matter. C., March, Karen Pence was travelg abroad an antigay untry. "I know that you unrstand the impact a hard borr will have on on this island -- barriers to the ee movement of people and ictnls tra; barriers to north-south operatn; the risk that the Good Friday Agreement and peace will be unrmed, " Varadkar if gay rights played no role the meetg, there still was plenty of talk about buildg urse, not all who heard of the dg and diplomacy felt the meal erased Pence's history wh LGBTQ rights.

IRELAND'S GAY LEAR, LEO VARADKAR, RUM MEDIL PRACTICE CRISIS

"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, " noted Chasten Buttigieg, hband to printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg.