Ireland be first untry to legalise gay marriage by popular vote | Ireland | The Guardian

Contents:

• IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
• IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
• IRELAND SAME-SEX REFERENDUM SET TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE
• HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD

Denmark led the way on civil partnerships, troducg them for same-sex upl 1989, but gay marriage only beme legal there June the turn of this year Luxembourg beme the latt untry to legalise same-sex marriage. Rearch by the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (Ilga), published May 2014, found that more than 2.

IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE

7 billn people live untri where beg gay is a crime. It said beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr was illegal almost 80 untri, and at least five of the was punishable by ath.

IRELAND SAME-SEX REFERENDUM SET TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE

After all, Ireland, a tradnally nservative Catholic untry, only crimalized homosexualy 1993. Mister for Health Leo Varadkar publicly revealed he was gay for the first time durg the mpaign and lled the w a “historil day.

Mr Varadkar revealed publilly durg the referendum mpaign that he was gay. “I would like to have seen that the rights of gay and lbian men and women uld have been rpected whout changg the fn of marriage.

HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Senator Filma Healy Eam, who also mpaigned for a No vote, said the referendum “for me was never anti-gay”. She said she had swched her vote om Y to No simply bee of her ncerns around nstutnal change and s effect on a child’s No advocy group Mothers and Fathers Matter exprsed “warm ngratulatns” to the Y si but said that one three Irish people - the vote rat - were not reprented by the polil mpaigner and Fianna Fáil Senator Averil Power said gay mpaigners who told their stori on the doorsteps of voters had “helped to change Ireland for all of ”, not jt the gay said she had seen many of them rced to tears by the experience they had durg the mpaign. Senator David Norris, who fought om the 1970s to 1993 to have homosexualy crimalised, weled the rult.