Why traditionally conservative Ireland, Serbia are open to openly-gay prime ministers

Leo Varadkar is Ireland’s first gay PM, while Ana Brnabic is nominated for the job in Serbia.
Technocrat Ana Brnabic has just been nominated as prime minister of Serbia, while Leo Varadkar became PM of Ireland this spring.
LONDON, U.K.—For most Irish people, the most striking thing about their new prime minister, Leo Varadkar, is that he is very young. (At 38, he is the country’s youngest leader ever.) It’s mainly the foreign press that goes on about the fact that he is: a) half-Indian, and b) gay. Varadkar him...

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