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Contents:

• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED
• PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD
• "THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND THE WORLD
• LEO VARADKAR, GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT, TO BE NEXT IRISH PM
• IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE
• LEO VARADKAR BE IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
• IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR
• LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER
• GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER WELED AT WHE HOE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY
• MIKE PENCE CHID FOR CLOSED EVENT WH GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR

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. Proment Irish Government Mister Com Out As Gay: The Two-Way Leo Varadkar, speakg to Irish rad, also says he supports an upg referendum to approve same-sex marriage the tradnally nservative Catholic untry. Ireland's Health Mister Leo Varadkar, 36, who has publicly e out as gay.

One of Ireland's most proment policians, Health Mister Leo Varadkar, has bee the first ernment mister ever to e out as gay — a move that jt four months before the tradnally nservative Catholic untry holds a natnwi referendum on same-sex marriage.

PROMENT IRISH GOVERNMENT MISTER COM OUT AS GAY

Varadkar, 36, told Ireland's RTE Rad 1 today: "I'm a gay man. And, by way of background, the news agency says: "The Roman Catholic Church domated Irish polics until the 1980s and the untry only legalised homosexual acts 1993. " The Guardian last month reported that an opn poll, nducted by The Irish Tim, showed 71 percent of Irish electorate would vote y on gay marriage.

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:. 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.

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

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.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

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. 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. 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.

IRELAND’S NEXT PRIME MISTER IS A NSERVATIVE, GAY 38-YEAR-OLD

”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.

"THE PRIME MISTER AND HIS HBAND": GAY LEARS AROUND 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! ”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.

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

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

IRELAND’S GAY FORMER PRIME MISTER RELLS BRGG HIS PARTNER TO FAMO MEETG WH MIKE PENCE

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

LEO VARADKAR BE IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". K., cludg major laws that advanced LGBTQ rights cludg the partial crimalizatn of homosexualy 1967 and the Marriage (Same Sex Coupl) Act 2014.

Elton John has prevly vouched for Charl, exprsg his nfince that the kg would e his fluence to crimalize homosexualy all Commonwealth stat.

IRELAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LEO VARADKAR

If you don’t step the water, nothg’s ever gog to get done, ” John said 2018, the Gay Tim reported. Homophobia is one of the many lgerg legaci of the Brish Empire which rried over to the Commonwealth of Natns head first by Elizabeth and now by her elst son.

“While a number of untri have recently crimalised homosexualy, others, such as Uganda, have troduced legislatn to enhance existg laws, ” she noted. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

LEO VARADKAR ELECTED AS IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER

The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament.

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

It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

MIKE PENCE CHID FOR CLOSED EVENT WH GAY IRISH PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology.

The ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy. Ireland is to get s youngt prime mister, and the first who is openly gay.

In 2015, as Mister of Health, Varadkar me out on Irish natnal rad, jog a handful of other openly gay policians Ireland support of the Marriage Equaly Bill, which allows same sex upl to marry. She beme the first lear of any untry the Balkans to attend a gay pri march, sayg “For me, this is a way to make an active ntributn to alg wh stereotyp and prejudic.