標題我稍微改了一下 ( 因下面那篇轉錄的文章貼出時此事尚未確定, 現已確定 ).
最新發展:
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天主教國家愛爾蘭選出了出櫃男同志 Leo Varadkar 作為下任總理.
他除了是目前世界上唯二已出櫃的現任
國家領袖之外,
( 另一位下面轉錄文章有寫, 為盧森堡
首相 Xavier Bettel )
( 已卸任的出櫃國家領袖下文也有提到
, 前比利時首相 Elio Di Rupo 以及前
冰島首相 Jóhanna Sigurõardóttir )
同時就任後他也將會是目前最年輕的歐
盟國家領袖.
執得一提的是,
同性戀在愛爾蘭直到 1993 年才除罪化,
到了 2015 年，其便已通過婚姻平權法;
2017 年, 愛爾蘭選出首位同志總理.
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標題: [新聞] 印度移民同志兒子可望成為下任愛爾蘭首相
時間: Tue May 30 22:58:58 2017
Gay son of Indian immigrant likely to be Ireland's next leader
by Kara Fox, CNN
Updated 1119 GMT (1919 HKT) May 30, 2017
印度移民的同志兒子 將可能成為愛爾蘭的下任首相
CNN Kara Fox 報導
2017年五月三十日
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He was 22 when he entered Irish politics. At 27, he was elected to
parliament. At 36, he publicly came out as gay. And now, at 38, Leo Varadkar,
the son of an Indian immigrant father and an Irish mother, appears on course
to become Ireland's next prime minister.
22歲時，他投入愛爾蘭政壇。27歲時，他選上國會議員。36歲時，他向全世界公開他的同
志身份。如今，38歲了，這位叫做里歐法拉克（Leo Varadkar）的印度移民之子，父親是
印度人，母親是愛爾蘭人，正堂堂走向愛爾蘭的首相之位。
As Ireland prepared to cast a historic vote that legalized same sex marriage
in 2015, Varadkar came out publicly on Irish national radio.
2015年，正當愛爾蘭準備投下歷史的一票讓同性婚姻合法化，法拉克在愛爾蘭國家電臺公
開出櫃了。
"It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician, or a
doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter. It's just part of who
I am, it doesn't define me, it is part of my character I suppose," the
fiercely private politician said speaking on RTE 1.
「性向並不能定義我是誰。我是一名政治人物，但我身上沒有貼著印度移民之子的標籤、
醫師從政的標籤、或同志身份的標籤。那些身份都只是我這個人其中的一個面向而已，這
些面向並不能定義我是誰，即便這些面向的確都是我人格的一部分。」這位私生活極度低
調的政治人物在愛爾蘭RTE1電臺上說著。
Although Varadkar has tried to steer attention away from his sexuality to his
politics, for a country that is increasingly trying to focus on a more
liberal European identity and shake off the hangover of religious involvement
in politics, a coming-out speech like Varadkar's, whatever its tone, is still
ground-breaking.
雖然法拉克試圖將公衆的注意力從他的性向轉移到他的政治表現，也雖然愛爾蘭已經不斷
努力讓自己成為一個更自由派的歐洲國家，極力擺脫過去政教合一的包袱，法拉克的出櫃
演說對愛爾蘭政壇而言仍是石破天驚，不管他的措辭是不是委婉。
Homosexuality was only decriminalized in Ireland in 1993. In 2015, Ireland
passed the Marriage Equality Bill, allowing same-sex couples to marry.
同性戀在愛爾蘭直到1993年才改判為無罪。而2015年，愛爾蘭便已通過婚姻平權法案，讓
同性伴侶可以結婚。
Senator David Norris, 73, the first Irish politician to publicly come out as
gay told CNN that he understands why Varadkar wants to focus on policies and
not his personal life. Speaking of his own experience, Norris said, "I never
made a big deal out of it, because I didn't want to be treated as a 'freak'.
I didn't want to be stuck just with issues of sexuality."
現年73歲的參議員大衛諾瑞斯是愛爾蘭第一位公開出櫃的同志政治人物，他跟CNN說他懂
為何法拉克希望大家把焦點擺在他的政策，而不是他的私生活。諾瑞斯以自己的個人經驗
為例，說：「我從來就不想在我的性傾向上面大作文章，因為我不想被大家當『怪物』對
待。我不希望被定位成只能討論性方面的議題。」
"What Varadkar does in bed is irrelevant," Norris said. But he also noted
that if Varadkar becomes Ireland's next prime minister or taoiseach, it would
signal another stride forward for equality rights in Ireland.
「法拉克要在他的床上做什麼事，跟大家一點關係都沒有。」但諾瑞斯也說，如果法拉克
成為愛爾蘭的下任首相，這對愛爾蘭的平權運動來說，將是向前躍進的一大步。
"For people of my generation, there were no role models at all. Now to be
able to have a young, able, good-looking gay man as prime minister of the
country, it says to young people, 'you can be anything you want, your
sexuality doesn't matter,'" he said.
「我這一代裡，沒有什麼典範的人物。然而現在，如果愛爾蘭能有這麼一位年輕、能幹、
英俊帥氣的男同志來當我們的首相，這將會為年輕世代帶來一個訊息：『沒有什麼你做不
到的事，即便你的性向跟別人不一樣也沒關係。』」諾瑞斯說。
If elected, Varadkar would be one of two openly gay heads of state currently
in office