A claim the Provisnal IRA "kneepped people for beg gay" has been met wh an angry backlash, but the man behd the ment says he was "speakg the tth" to highlight how attus had changed over recent years.
Contents:
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- GAY RUC MAN HAD IENDS ON BOTH SIS OF POLIL DIVI
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * gay irish republicans *
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.
“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. A claim the Provisnal IRA "kneepped people for beg gay" has been met wh an angry backlash, but the man behd the ment says he was "speakg the tth" to highlight how attus had changed over recent years.
Proment gay rights activist and Irish polician David Norris ma the claim at the lnch of the first LGBT History Ftival 'OUTg the Past' at Belfast Cy journalist Johnny Caldwell reported the Irish senator's reactn many rid the claim as "total fictn" wh some highlightg how gay activists had the past supported the republin Fe's Alex Maskey scribed the ments as "reprehensible". "I have had a lot of rpect for David terms of the urage he showed standg up for gay rights and whatever reason he has said this I jt fd crlo and I would have expected more om him.
BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM
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Senator David Norris has mpaigned for gay rights and was stmental the crimalisatn of homosexualy the Republic after takg a se through the domtic urts and all the way to the European Court of Human said he was speakg of the chang attus Ireland toward those the LGBT muny. "People fet was not that long ago that beg gay was a crimal offence.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
"They wore badg, which said Irish 'gay liberatn' and they had been bullied, timidated and y kneepped. "Now, I don't know if those behd may have been actg as eelance but at that time the provisnal movement was very anti-gay.
And ed I remember people who were the provisnal movement shoutg homophobic remarks at me.
GAY RUC MAN HAD IENDS ON BOTH SIS OF POLIL DIVI
"But people were beaten for beg gay. Leo Varadkar, one of the hight-rankg openly gay elected officials the world, has offered his rignatn as Ireland's prime mister, although he will ntue as a "retaker" until a new ernment is party, Fe Gael, had failed to w a majory parliamentary electns Febary 8, and no other party did eher, leadg to "polil adlock" Ireland, CNN reports.
When he beme prime mister 2017, he was not only the natn's first gay prime mister but s youngt one -- he was then 38 -- and the first one om an ethnic mory group; his father is Indian and his mother is Irish.
He and his partner, Matthew Barrett, met wh notor homophobe Mike Pence 2019, and on the same vis he gave a speech at the Naval Observatory praisg diversy.