Stephen Fry and Gay Byrne Irish TV terview transcriptn & ments

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'

The stori the men this issue share wh rears some of the most breezy they have ever featured, cludg tal of boozy nights out on the gay scene, timate nights , and even tal that highlight some of the good moments to e om this panmic era.

© 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

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. 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.

LEO VARADKAR BE IRELAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER

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.

STEPHEN FRY AND GAY BYRNEIRISH TV TERVIEW TRANSCRIPTN & MENTS

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. © 2022 GCN (Gay Communy News).

IRISH GAY GROUP PRAIS POPE FRANCIS’S AIRBORNE MENTS

Although this film is set Cuba, ’s wrten by Irish gay man, Mark O’Halloran, directed by an Irish man, and fund by the Irish film board, so we’re claimg as an Irish film. Jt as Jús (Héctor Meda) gets a start his dream job as a drag queen at his gay lol Havana, his tranged macho father (Je Pegorría) lands on his doorstep, and forbids him to perform.

Deeply closeted at a time when homosexualy is still a crimal offense Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creat a lol sndal when he announc a productn of Osr Wil’s play Salome, starrg untry girl Ale (Tara Fzgerald) and Robbie (Ruf Sewell), the b driver for whom Alfie secretly p. Hapls civil servant, Shane (Michael Legge) gets more than he bargaed for when he mov to an apartment wh a gay fashn stunt, Vcent (Allen Leech). Angie (Flora Montgomery) is the lbian who has an affair wh bisexual Clara, then falls love wh Kate, and then has a hapls one-night-stand wh her gay bt iend, Red, and be pregnant.

‘Big’ Kev (Andrew Bent) and “Ltle’ Kev (Michael Legge, Cowboys & Angels) are a gay uple this Irish answer to The Haner, which follows a band of bondg boys on a stag party the wilds of Wicklow. Dpe the director beg a gay man, ’s easy to thk the gays are there jt for show, but then they bee the centre of the tensn as we realise ‘Big’ Kev isn’t ved to the weddg bee the father of ‘Ltle’ Kev (and the groom) is agast their relatnship. It allows for a brief discsn on a divi between young and old generatns on the subject of homosexualy that seems dated already, but the film’s gay payoff is genuely movg.