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Contents:

• ENGLAND GOALKEEPER AARON RAMSDALE PLEDG TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL SUPPORT OF GAY BROTHER
• A LOOK BACK AT DUBL'S INIC GAY CLUB FLIKKERS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• IRELAND'S GAY UPL WAKE UP TO A SHOCKG NEW REALY
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

ENGLAND GOALKEEPER AARON RAMSDALE PLEDG TO FIGHT HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL SUPPORT OF GAY BROTHER

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A LOOK BACK AT DUBL'S INIC GAY CLUB FLIKKERS

In the years that followed after I me out to my fay, beg gay beme water unr the bridge to them. Ireland is where I had spent many nights "prayg the gay away.

And gay men have e a long way sce Declan Flynn's murr 1982.

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

I was awe wh the album's ler not: "If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basilly an asshole, don't buy this CD.

I'm no longer "prayg the gay away" at night or playg out scenars my head. The same year Leo Varadkar was appoted as Ireland's Taoiseach (Head of Government) and beme the fourth openly gay head of state/ernment the world. In 2018, on behalf of the Irish ernment, Varadkar issued a public apology to members of the LGBTQ+ muny for the sufferg and discrimatn they faced om the Irish state before the legalizatn of homosexualy there.

Gay sex and kissg scen films and TV shows are often censored; there's not enough LGBTQ+ reprentatn the ernment, and blood donatns om gay men are still nsired tated or ntamated. 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).

IRELAND'S GAY UPL WAKE UP TO A SHOCKG NEW REALY

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!

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

”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. “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. Acrdg to the Irish Examer, the Gardaí Sligo are examg whether there is a homophobic motive for the grisly killgs of two men the town over the past two days. DUBLIN - The gay upl of Ireland woke up Sunday what felt like a natn reborn - some wh dreams of weddg plans dancg their weren't risg too early, however, after celebratg the history-makg oute of Ireland's referendum enshrg gay marriage the nstutn.

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

The unexpectedly strong willgns of Irish voters to change their nservative 1937 nstutn is expected to lead to a wave of gay weddgs Ireland the fall.

The "y" mpaign also featured movg personal stori om proment Irish people - eher g out as gays or scribg their hop for gay children - that helped nvce waverg voters to back equal marriage rights. Both Catholic Church lears and gay rights advot said the rult signaled a social revolutn Ireland, where only a few s ago the thory of Catholic teachg was rerced by voters who massively backed bans on abortn and divorce the Ireland's most proment gay uple, Sen.

"By then, several mentators have noted, a new generatn of Irish people should already be acceptg the sight of a gay uple holdg hands the street, or exchangg their vows and kissg ont of their fai.