Ireland's first male ballet dancer Roy Galv talks growg up gay a very different time • GCN

Contents:

• IRELAND'S FIRST MALE BALLET DANCER ROY GALV TALKS GROWG UP GAY A VERY DIFFERENT TIME
• IRELAND’S FIRST PRO BALLET DANCER SAYS HE GREW UP AS A GAY MAN A VERY DIFFERENT IRELAND
• TOP TEN IRISH, TALENTED AND GAY SEE PHOTOS
• LGER REVIEW: A GAY URTSHIP, IRISH DANCG AND TACKLG AGE AND INTY
• REPRSN AND LIBERATN: A G-OUT FOR GAY MEN AND IRISH STEP DANCE

IRELAND'S FIRST MALE BALLET DANCER ROY GALV TALKS GROWG UP GAY A VERY DIFFERENT TIME

The extraordary life of Roy Galv, a gay man om Limerick who beme the first male ballet dancer Ireland, is the foc of a particularly amazg episo of the TG4 seri Fné tonight.

IRELAND’S FIRST PRO BALLET DANCER SAYS HE GREW UP AS A GAY MAN A VERY DIFFERENT IRELAND

As was here he began to realise he was gay, Roy scribed what his younger self would have ma of the leaps forward the LGBTQ+ muny has ma sce then. “Growg up as a gay boy Limerick, I was nonted by three stutns; the laws of the land wh the State tellg me that I’m crimal; the send is the World Health Organisatn tellg me that is a mental disease, and then, of urse, the Roman Catholic Church, tellg me that ’s trsic evil.

© 2022 GCN (Gay Communy News).

TOP TEN IRISH, TALENTED AND GAY SEE PHOTOS

Always a risk | Roy Galv: “Somethg as simple as walkg down the street at night, you had to be very reful and watch over your shoulr jt se”The man who beme Ireland’s first profsnal ballet dancer has told how he grew up as a gay man a very different Ireland. Limerick man Roy Galv grew up Limerick’s ner cy and beme the first male ballet dancer the fal episo of Fné, to air on TG4 on March 9th, he reflects on his extraordary reer as a mician and profsnal ballet dancer, while also reuntg his story of growg up gay a very different Ireland. “Everyone knew I was gay.

”He add that Gardaí didn’t have the power to support LGBT people bee homosexualy at the time was illegal. 8 percent of the men dance pani overall were gay, while they nsired 53 percent of the men their own pani to be gay.

The LGBTQ participatn the profsn has been domated by gay male dancers - this rerc the stereotype of the male ballet dancer as breathtakgly betiful and gay. As recently as 1994, homosexualy was illegal Ireland. To celebrate this, here at we have piled a list of some of the most talented Irish and Irish-Amerins whose admissns of homosexualy have spired others to do the same.

LGER REVIEW: A GAY URTSHIP, IRISH DANCG AND TACKLG AGE AND INTY

In 2006 he was named as one of the most fluential gay men Bra by the London Inpennt. In recent years the goalkeeper beme the first Irish sport-mans to openly talk about beg gay. Although a furtive and tentative rual dance of gay urtship is prented on screen, the work has a universaly that rists any one readg.

Conneely, a native of Knock, Kilshamuck, Co Mayo, told host "The Late Late Show" host Gay Byrne and the dience his spirg story this clip om 1972. Gay male inty isn’t a subject normally explored Irish step dance.

REPRSN AND LIBERATN: A G-OUT FOR GAY MEN AND IRISH STEP DANCE

" Comg outThis physil exprsn of reprsn and liberatn reflects the lgerg prsur of g out as a gay man.