Health mister tipped as future party lear tells rad show: ‘I am a gay man. It’s not a secret’
Contents:
- QUEER LOVE: 'THERE AREN’T MANY BOOKS THAT FOC ON GAY PEOPLE'
- GAY IRISH STRONGMAN AND HIS FIANCé CELEBRATED PRI WHERE MARRIAGE EQUALY IS BANNED
- LEO VARADKAR BE IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
- STEPHEN FRY AND GAY BYRNEIRISH TV TERVIEW TRANSCRIPTN & MENTS
- IRISH GAY GROUP PRAIS POPE FRANCIS’S AIRBORNE MENTS
QUEER LOVE: 'THERE AREN’T MANY BOOKS THAT FOC ON GAY PEOPLE'
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© 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). “Pat said there had been an anthology [The Irish Eros, published 1996] which had featured jt two piec on Irish gay life and one was a poem by a straight man. There aren’t many books that foc on gay people and there are even fewer on the love liv of gay people.
GAY IRISH STRONGMAN AND HIS FIANCé CELEBRATED PRI WHERE MARRIAGE EQUALY IS BANNED
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It’s the same thg as ‘I don’t really md gay people but I don’t really want to talk or hear about what they do bed’. Even films or on TV, the pictn of the gay person is often of the mp, funny bt iend. We very rarely see them bed wh their lover, ” says thor says the lack of reprentatn of gay liv and perspectiv was also recently brought home to him when he watched It’s A S, the acclaimed drama om Rsell T Davi centred on the liv of gay people 1980s London durg the AIDS crisis.
LEO VARADKAR BE IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER
There is also a piece by the legendary gay rights activist and Aosdána member Mary Dorcey.
“This was never gog to be verg 150 years of wrg or whatever, is more like a ltle llectn of love letters to gay fictn om Irish wrers, ” he says. “I don’t pick up a book and go, ‘oh my God, that’s a straight book, don’t talk to me about my life, I’m not gog to read straight books’, but I thk a lot of people do that about gay books.
STEPHEN FRY AND GAY BYRNEIRISH TV TERVIEW TRANSCRIPTN & MENTS
They thk, ‘why would I read a book about gay people, don’t reflect my life and I’m not really terted’. “Gay people of my generatn often led lonely liv — they were very isolated bee they were rejected by society, schoolmat and sometim their fay. It will clu three origal songs, a ver of Melanie C’s ‘I Turn To You, ’ and a new versn of ‘Proud’ featurg The London Gay Men’s Chos.
IRISH GAY GROUP PRAIS POPE FRANCIS’S AIRBORNE MENTS
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