LGBTQ+ rights in Europe are caught in a “chill wind” from east and west as Vladimir Putin’s Russia exports its conservative agenda and the “Americans are off the pitch” under Donald Trump, Ireland’s former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
Varadkar, who in 2017 became Ireland’s first out gay prime minister, said Europe needed to “step up” to avoid the continent becoming further squeezed by global forces seeking to chip away at recent progress.
“I’m afraid of where things are going,” he said. “Europe is still the light when it comes to human rights and democracy and freedom of expression, given what else is going on in the world – but it’s a flickering light.” » | Ashifa Kassam | European community affairs correspondent | Thursday, March 19, 2026
Trump’s negative influence on LGBTQ+ diminishing rights can be blamed particularly on Goldilocks himself. The man is a fossil and a hypocrite, especially as he likes “pussy” a lot and especially because he is known to be a convicted sex offender. Is a person loving another person of the same gender as bad as that? Here’s a video clip of Trump talking about pussy. That he could be elected and then re-elected to the highest office in the land after all that beggars belief! As for Orbán, he’s just a dangerous Russophile who wants to turn the clock back. These tw*ts (use the vowel of your own choosing) might intimidate others; but they won’t intimidate me. I am absolutely and totally secure in my sexual identity and no Trump or Orbán will ever change that! It is imperative that we fight this benightedness to the end! — © Mark Alexander
