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Leo Varadkar, a 38-year-old gay son of an Indian immigrant father is likely to bee Ireland’s next prime mister.

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GAY SON OF INDIAN IMMIGRANT LIKELY TO BE IRELAND’S NEXT LEAR

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At 36, he publicly me out as gay. I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician or a gay polician for that matter. Homosexualy was only crimalized Ireland 1993.

Senator David Norris, 73, the first Irish polician to publicly e out as gay told CNN that he unrstands why Varadkar wants to foc on polici and not his personal life.

Now to be able to have a young, able, good-lookg gay man as prime mister of the untry, says to young people, ‘you n be anythg you want, your sexualy don’t matter, ’” he said.

IRELAND'S FIRST GAY PRIME MISTER LEO VARADKAR FORMALLY ELECTED

If elected, Varadkar would be one of two openly gay heads of state currently office – Luxembourg’s prime mister Xavier Bettel beg the other.

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. Varadkar will be the first openly gay man to hold the post, and his appotment will be nfirmed at the end of the month, when the Irish parliament returns om a break. Bis beg an openly gay lear of a major polil party, and a soon-to-be Prime Mister, Varadkar stands out some other ways as well.

7 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LEO VARADKAR, IRELAND’S NEXT PM, WHO IS HALF INDIAN & OPENLY GAY

Here are seven thgs about Leo Varadkar that you should know before he tak office: He is openly gay and me out on January 18, 2015, on his 36th birthday.

Ireland legalized gay marriage 2015, and Varadkar me out a few months after that on a rad show. I’m not a half-Indian polician, or a doctor polician, or a gay polician, for that matter.

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. 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.

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

“It is a sign of how much Ireland has changed and moved on that no one really r if he is gay here. Irish policians were among the last sectors of our society to e out of the closet but now at least we’ve got one gay man and a lbian, Cathere Zappone, both the bet.

Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s mister for social protectn, is the strong favoure to replace Enda Kenny as Taoiseach of 38-year-old, who me out as gay durg the same-sex marriage referendum mpaign Ireland 2015, has dropped to 2/5 wh Paddy Power to bee the next lear of Fe Gael, which leads a mory he were to w, would mark a tone for the historilly very nservative untry. 25 ln mory ethnic to lead IrelandMr Varadkar, whose father is Indian, would be the first mory ethnic Taoiseach of Ireland as well as the first gay man to hold the would be the fourth openly gay prime mister the world after Belgium’s El Di Rupo, Iceland’s Johanna Sigurdardottir and Luxembourg’s Xavier Mister Leo Varadkar livers heartfelt speech llg for same-sex marriageThe polician me out a rad terview 2015 before the untry voted to make same-sex marriage said: “It’s not somethg that f me.

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