Irish Presidential candidate David Norris strikes a pose
It looks like a gay is going to win either way in the upcoming Presidential election in Ireland.
The Irish will vote for the post in October, and the two leading contenders are independent senator David Norris, who is gay in the sense of gay marriage. And then there is Gay Mitchell, the candidate of the government party Fine Gael, who just has a gay name and is married. Alas, the female gays are invisible.
May the best gay win!
Senator David Norris
Two great pieces of news out of Ireland in recent days:
1. The country is now recognizing same sex marriages performed in other European Union (EU) countries, though bizarrely they seem to claim to be doing is by according civil partnership rights to such couples (why? Smells of separatism to me)
2. The new leading candidate to be the next Irish President is the gay man who forced Ireland to decriminalize gay sex in the first place in 1998. Irish Senator David Norris leads the pack by a resounding margin. Norris, 66, is favored by 27 percent of voters, followed by Member of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness at 13 percent.
