Is havg a gay Taoiseach really a good ia? — - Now Ye're Talk'

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• IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH A BIG AL FOR IRELAND?
• TANAISTE LEO VARADKAR OPENS UP ON G OUT AS GAY AND THE 'VERY DIFFERENT' EXPERIENCE NOWADAYSLEO VARADKAR BEME IRELAND’S FIRST GAY TAOISEACH 2017 BUT ADMTED THAT WHEN HE FIRST ENTERED POLICS HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FULLY AWARE OF, OR ACCEPTED, HIS SEXUALYIRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCLARE MCCARTHYREPORTER19:22, 9 APR 2022BOOKMARKLEO VARADKAR AT THE DUBL GAY PRI PARA 2015WANT THE LATT POLIL NEWS AND ANALYSIS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX? SIGN UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 WANT THE LATT POLIL NEWS AND ANALYSIS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX? SIGN UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• INDIAN-ORIG GAY POLICIAN LEO VARADKAR RETURNS AS PRIME MISTER OF IRELAND
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH REALLY A GOOD IA?
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• GAY TEENAGER TELLS TAOISEACH OF HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG
• IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH REALLY A GOOD IA?

IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH A BIG AL FOR IRELAND?

On Febary 1st, 2009, at the height of her untry’s fancial crisis, Jóhanna Sigurdardottir was elected Iceland’s first female prime mister and the world’s first openly gay head of years later, El Di Rupo, who had publicly e out unr media prsure 1996, beme prime mister of December 2013, Xavier Bettel succeed Jean-Cl Juncker to bee the 24th prime mister of Luxembourg. In 2015 he married his partner of five when, barrg parliamentary mishaps, the new Fe Gael lear Leo Varadkar is elected taoiseach some time the next few weeks, he will bee the fourth openly gay head of ernment morn European an earth-shatterg landmark, but far om nsequential eher. The fact that many proment rol society are filled by openly gay and lbian people is now nsired so unremarkable that many fet such a suatn would have been unthkable a generatn ago.

"Ireland, a voutly Catholic untry that crimalised homosexualy only 24 years ago, is poised to elect s first openly gay prime mister next month, " wrote the New York Post. "It would be a monumental piece of history for the once-stnchly Catholic untry, " wrote Gay News the n expect much more of the same when Varadkar actually be taoiseach, and more aga when he attends his first major ’s not surprisg that the current ternatnal verage foc so much on the future taoiseach’s sexual orientatn, along wh his youth and ethnic background, wh snt attentn paid to his polil views or track yet, bar a uple of heavily d cints, Varadkar’s sexualy barely cropped up durg the learship the weeks before the mpaign proper, the Irish Inpennt ran a uple of packag drawg liberate visual parisons between Simon Coveney, picturg him wh his wife and children, and Varadkar, standg obvly the learship ntt self was to s last week before puty lear Jam Reilly chose to note potedly that Coveney “unrstands what means to rear a young fay” the notn that a natnal lear should ially be equipped wh a spoe still reta some purchase the public imagatn? More fundamentally, do matter that Varadkar is gay?

"What do mean is that gay and lbian people are now seen as credibly ordary, " says Andrew Hyland, former director of the Marriage Equaly mpaign. Everywhere – not jt Dubl – beg gay was normalised. Now there are gay weddgs across the untry.

TANAISTE LEO VARADKAR OPENS UP ON G OUT AS GAY AND THE 'VERY DIFFERENT' EXPERIENCE NOWADAYSLEO VARADKAR BEME IRELAND’S FIRST GAY TAOISEACH 2017 BUT ADMTED THAT WHEN HE FIRST ENTERED POLICS HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FULLY AWARE OF, OR ACCEPTED, HIS SEXUALYIRISHMIRRORBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYCLARE MCCARTHYREPORTER19:22, 9 APR 2022BOOKMARKLEO VARADKAR AT THE DUBL GAY PRI PARA 2015WANT THE LATT POLIL NEWS AND ANALYSIS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX? SIGN UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER MORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 WANT THE LATT POLIL NEWS AND ANALYSIS LIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX? SIGN UP TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTER INVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Printial electns often scend to personal attacks on dividual ndidat, and Norris had been known for years as a mpaigng gay polician, rather than a polician who jt happened to be the Fe Gael electn, Varadkar was appealg to a small, very specific set of voters wh a msage rooted Fe Gael valu.

Perhaps what really mak Varadkar unual is that he took so long to e out as gay. “And the fact that jt two years after the referendum, we’ll have a gay taoiseach is still huge for Ireland.

INDIAN-ORIG GAY POLICIAN LEO VARADKAR RETURNS AS PRIME MISTER OF IRELAND

Leo Varadkar has opened up about g out as gay and how young people have a 'very different' experience nowadays.

The Tanaiste, who beme Ireland’s youngt and first gay and mixed-race Taoiseach 2017, admted that when he first entered polics he may not have been fully aware of, or accepted, his sexualy. Mr Varadkar said has been "liberatg" how thgs have changed over the last 20 years and that Ireland is now a very different place for young gay people to grow up . He ntued: “It’s te for gay men and very te for women as well, that the views of how women should behave has very much changed and changed for the better.

“Certaly, even for young gay people their 20s now, ’s a very different experience.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

“They tend to have a group of mixed iends, men and women, and they might be the gay guy the group, and everyone thks that’s great. “That’s not to say that homophobic bullyg don’t still exist schools, do, but ’s not like ed to be thankfully.

" Mr Varadkar was first elected a TD 2007 me out as gay an terview on natnal rad 2015 the n-up to the marriage equaly referendum. Varadkar, 43, served as prime mister between 2017 and 2020 the untry's youngt-ever lear and first openly gay prime mister.

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IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH REALLY A GOOD IA?

Not sure about the gay b but is a good ia havg leo varadkar as taosaich? So my believe opn Leo Varadkar is the bt man for Taoiseach and so what if he gay, blue, pk,. His poor bashg stuff is nearly as bad as the homophobic stuff you get on this thread.

Are you not aware of the Sdis (and pretty much every other majory mlim untri) attu towards gay people? Hope I didn't keep you wag too long to pot out that you first of all suggted the Sdis would have a problem wh Leo, then when asked why, you suggted that their attus you assumed they would have towards people who are gay would be based upon your perceptn that they would have that attu by virtue of the fact that they are adherents of Islam. That's the problem wh inty polics - you assume the two ncepts are mutually exclive, as though there uld be no gay Mlims Sdi Arabia, let alone that anyone there would have an issue wh Leo based upon the fact that he is gay.

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Yet you still want to say that the fact he is gay is irrelevant. So, to rep - you n make assumptns about people who are adherents of Islam, but you get your knickers a bunch when people make assumptns about people who are gay...

I know a gay Mlim man the U. Homosexualy is an issue Islam and some untri have a very severe cultural attu to . Nobody is gog to go "Oh he's the gay guy, I'll vote for him", except the imagary people your head.

I certaly don't feel that way bee he's gay, jt bee he's an all-around terrible human beg wh no spe whatsoever and zero polil acumen, and I would like to see terrible misfortune befall him and almost all his party, and most of the opposn party too. My ex and some of his iends would've voted for David Norris bee they thought a gay print would've been a great thg. Don't re about him beg gay, do re about him beg a Bluhirted arsehole tho.

GAY TEENAGER TELLS TAOISEACH OF HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG

I ma no reference to dividual mlims, nor did I "get my knickers a twist" about any assumptns wh regard to gay people - you jt ma those two thgs up. The Sdis, as I stated, are unlikely to wele Varadkar, as Sdi Arabia, like most Mlim-majory untri, has laws agast homosexualy.

Homosexualy is an issue Islam and some untri have a very severe cultural attu to 's not a matter of whether they are dividually sound. It is though, and this is the pot I was makg to Gravelly who was assumg that "the Sdis" as they put would actually have any issue wh Leo by virtue of the fact that he is gay. I would suggt that they wouldn't give two fcs about Leo, nor the fact that he is gay.

IS HAVG A GAY TAOISEACH REALLY A GOOD IA?

I mix wh plenty of Mlims (my own sister is a nvert to Islam) who are no different to anyone else as people - they all e wh varyg gre of opn on var issu, and I don't tomatilly assume of them that bee someone is Mlim, or bee someone is gay, or bee someone is Catholic, that they would have a problem wh someone or somethg. Aga, as has been vered this thread already, gay policians and senr officials have vised and alt wh the untri already.