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The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc.

“It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said. Mart: 'My mother asked who else our town was gay' I myself was my 30s when I publicly me out for the first time, and I chose to do at an LGBT pri edy event where I was performg.

WHAT’S LIKE TO E OUT AS GAY THE TRAVELLER MUNY?

I was joed onstage by a iend and fellow performer, Kathere Lynch, who cintally was also the same person to brg me to an LGBT venue Dubl for the first time, back days of my story reachg the lol newspapers I was undated wh msag om the Traveller muny, some nasty and homophobic, but the majory msag of support and hope. One mother wrote to me to tell me that her dghter was gay, and that if more Travellers me out, would do a lot stemmg suici amongst LGBT Travellers. We didn’t talk about my sexualy, not bee he was homophobic, but bee speakg about would mean he would have to wrap his head around the physily of me beg gay, and that was far too an awkward nversatn for both of the week that the article about my g-out was released, I lled my mother for a chat, and the background I uld hear my father shoutg: “Is that Rory.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

” My father, a big fan of the TV s Mrs Brown’s Boys, felt that llg me Rory (an openly gay character the show) was enough for me to unrstand that he knew I was gay. Photograph: RTÉ Hughie: 'You fear your parents will never unrstand' Hughie Mghan (26), who has appeared on Big Brother, Eatg wh the Enemy on Virg Media and First Dat Ireland on RTÉ, speaks of the homophobia he has experienced. While he adms that homophobia Ireland is not as bad as was, the past he faced heavy abe om wh the Traveller muny.

'The homophobia I faced the muny ma me feel at that pot that I would have rather been ad. That's how bad was'“I faced homophobia om settled and Traveller muni, but if I am beg hont, I fely faced more om other Travellers.

When you are listeng to your father speakg wh his iends, for example, and how they might have banter between them, and how if someone ed a homophobic word agast someone, mak you thk that you n’t speak to them about beg gay.

MANY UNTRI DON'T ACCEPT OUR RIGHT TO EXIST: LIFE AS A GAY TRAVELER

“The homophobia I faced the muny ma me feel at that pot that I would have rather been ad. ”Ruby O’Brien Ruby: 'It took me years to see that I wasn't gay, I was trans' Ruby O'Brien (21), a trans Traveller om Co Kerry speaks about beg physilly asslted by a group of Traveller men London, simply bee she was trans and a Traveller. She me out first as a gay man, simply bee she felt was an easier procs to engage her parents and fay wh.

When I me out my hometown, a lot of people accepted me as beg gay, but when I me out as trans, a lot of people stopped talkg to me.

I didn’t grow up seeg trans people, and took me years to see that I wasn’t gay, I was trans.

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“I feel that people need to expla to young people what transgenr means, bee I have iends that I believe are trans, but they feel that ’s jt worse to e out as trans, so they live their liv as gay men, bee there is no one explag the difference to young Travellers.

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”Jam Lawrence Jam: 'I was more feme than other Traveller men' Jam Lawrence (23), a Traveller om Bristol England, scrib g out as a gay man.

“I had a lot more experienc of homophobia before I me out as gay, I suppose bee I was more feme than other Traveller men. ”Traveller anisatns: 'The culture is one of masculy ' When Ireland was gog through the legal procs of changg homosexualy om beg a crime the mid 1990s, Irish Travellers were only jt begng to emerge wh anisatns aimed at highlightg human rights issu faced by the Traveller is a sense om the LGBT+ Travellers that they nnot tst Traveller anisatns to act on their behalf bee the Traveller muny would not then support themThere was an evable prrisatn of what rights were fought for, and like every suatn throughout history, LGBT+ people were the last to be thought of. It is ludicro that nsens and stagnatn is favoured over the preventn of homophobic and transphobic abe of our most margalised is not progrsn, is the protectn of that which we seek to remove, discrimatn.

”While I have no doubt that Pavee Pot, and ed all Traveller anisatns, do their bt to help LGBT+ Travellers as the need aris or as the LGBT+ Travellers prent themselv, do not go far enough challengg homophobia and transphobia wh the muny, somethg that uld be done through hard-htg social media mpaigns highlightg the issu. Homophobia/transphobia is a mentaly based on eher ignorance or misrmed hate, which n be changed only through engagement and through proactive approach via dialogue and policy chang. I’ve known I was gay sce I was six years old, but growg up the Irish Traveller muny ma very difficult for me to e out.

Homophobia is rooted wh the culture of Irish Travellers; ’s a dark and secret world, and when people step out of le, they tend to get beaten up. I grew up knowg that beg gay was not somethg that most travellers would tolerate and that tellg anyone about would put me at risk. One night, I’d worked up the urage to slip away om the group and head to the cy’s gay district.

If you’re known to be gay, other men avoid you — they won’t s wh you a rtrant, they wouldn’t get a r wh you.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.