Hannah Tiernan shar the moment of realisatn that the park she grew up playg had another life for gay men forced to secrecy.
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- EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM
- THE BT OF GAY DUBL
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EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM
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When a piece of queer art ed a childhood memory to e floodg back, Han Tiernan reflected on the send liv public spac had for gay people.
One day when we were playg the park, one of the olr kids told that we better not enter at night bee there were “rent boys” and “gay men”.
By the time I was The Gee watchg the film, I was a long-standg, fully-fledged lbian unr no illns about cisg culture and “rent boys” or even “gay men”.
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I assumed, although we never discsed , that many of my gay iends had cised.
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