OPINION:
The election of the first openly gay man to the most powerful political office in the state has evoked mixed reactions within the LGBT+ community. For some, it heralds an historic watershed and a stark rejection of the kind of institutional homophobia that has served as a barrier to generations of LGBT+ people from realising their full potential. Yet for others, Leo Varadkar is a right-wing ideologue whose politics couldn’t be more out of sync with a (LGBT+) movement defined by progressive activism and a broader solidarity with other traditionally marginalised groups.