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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
• IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT
• GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY
• COULD DAVID NORRIS BEE IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT?
• LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
• MIKE PENCE MEETS WH IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER
• DAVID NORRIS STILL SE HIS STY AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT
• PENCE HOSTS OPENLY GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER AND HIS PARTNER FOR BREAKFAST
• GAY SENATOR LEADS RACE FOR IRELAND PRINT
• LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

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.

IRELAND ULD ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT

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.

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

”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.

COULD DAVID NORRIS BEE IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT?

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.

LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM

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.

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

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.

DAVID NORRIS STILL SE HIS STY AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRINT

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.

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 . Print Joe Bin weled Ireland’s gay prime mister, known as the Taoiseach, to the Whe Hoe on St.

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

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 ›.

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. 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.

GAY SENATOR LEADS RACE FOR IRELAND 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. 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 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.

LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

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.

“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.