Leo Varadkar: Gay, half-Indian, nservative - and favoure to be Ireland's next lear

Contents:

• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
• LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
• WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM
• GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
• ‘WHEN YOU ARE A PERSON OF LOUR IRELAND PEOPLE DON’T SEE YOU AS GAY’
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR
• GAY IRELAND
• LEO VARADKAR, THE INDIAN-ORIG GAY MAN POISED TO BE IRELAND’S PMIF ELECTED, LEO VARADKAR WOULD ALSO BEE THE YOUNGT IRISH PRIME MISTER SO FAR. RTERSUPDATED: 04 JUN 2017, 8:31 PM ISTWORLD4 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY
• FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

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. 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

“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.

WHO IS LEO VARADKAR? THE INDIAN-ORIG, OPENLY GAY LEAR BACK AS IRELAND PM

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, (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:.

GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR

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. Leo Varadkar, an openly gay Indian-orig polician, beme the Prime Mister of Ireland on Saturday.

‘WHEN YOU ARE A PERSON OF LOUR IRELAND PEOPLE DON’T SEE YOU AS GAY’

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. 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.

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.

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

Now to be able to have a young, able, good-lookg gay man as prime mister of the untry, says to young people, ‘you n be anythg you want, your sexualy don’t matter, ’” he said.

LEO VARADKAR: GAY, HALF-INDIAN, NSERVATIVE – AND FAVOURE TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR

If elected, Varadkar would be one of two openly gay heads of state currently office – Luxembourg’s prime mister Xavier Bettel beg the other. 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.

GAY IRELAND

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.

The stori the men this issue share wh rears some of the most breezy they have ever featured, cludg tal of boozy nights out on the gay scene, timate nights , and even tal that highlight some of the good moments to e om this panmic era. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).

When Praep Mahashwar was growg up Mumbai he regularly saw members of the cy's transgenr and tersex muny – known as hijra – the streets around his home and "third genr" muny, as they are scribed India, trigued Mahashwar who realised at an early age he was gay.

LEO VARADKAR, THE INDIAN-ORIG GAY MAN POISED TO BE IRELAND’S PMIF ELECTED, LEO VARADKAR WOULD ALSO BEE THE YOUNGT IRISH PRIME MISTER SO FAR. RTERSUPDATED: 04 JUN 2017, 8:31 PM ISTWORLD4 M READSHARE THE QUT DAILY

”Mahashwar never formally "me out" as gay but beme more fortable about his sexualy at llege as his circle of iends grew. I loved the vibrancy of s gay culture.

FAMO GAY MEN INDIA

Tryg to meet new people Irish gay bars was difficult and he found many men stereotyped him bee of his appearance.

"When you are a person of lour Ireland people don't see you as a gay person. "My iends had cid to go to a gay bar to celebrate but the doorman wouldn't let me bee he said I 'didn't look gay'. I'm gay.

"People don't e here jt to work and learn; they brg their whole culture wh them, and the procs our society be more mature as we're exposed to different realiRacial stereotypg is an everyday occurrence for most people of lour on the Dubl gay scene, says Mahashwar. Some acunts specify “only Irish”, he gay men, particularly Brazilians, are seen as “glamoro, fun and sexually sirable” while Asian or black Ain gay men are regularly nsired “unsexy” or “unattractive”, he adds. Mahashwar has wnsed members of the gay muny velop iendships, go on dat or engage sual hookups based on “sk lour, class and geographil stereotyp” but then “exprs outrage about racism on social media”.