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3This week he will make history as the first gay Traveller on RTE’s First DatCred: PA:Prs Associatn. And this week Hughie will make history as the first gay Traveller on RTE’s First Dat.
I’d have mted suici bee whout Big Brother, I don’t thk I would have openly me out as gay. I would never have thought five years ago that I would be talkg about beg gay a newspaper whout worryg what people thk of me but I have the nfince to do that now.
Caoimhín and Shna Caoimhín First Dat Ireland“So far, I have mostly been chatted up by gay men, ” says Caoimhín om Louth. Mart: 'My mother asked who else our town was gay' I myself was my 30s when I publicly me out for the first time, and I chose to do at an LGBT pri edy event where I was performg. I was joed onstage by a iend and fellow performer, Kathere Lynch, who cintally was also the same person to brg me to an LGBT venue Dubl for the first time, back days of my story reachg the lol newspapers I was undated wh msag om the Traveller muny, some nasty and homophobic, but the majory msag of support and hope.
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One mother wrote to me to tell me that her dghter was gay, and that if more Travellers me out, would do a lot stemmg suici amongst LGBT Travellers. The worst I got om my mother was askg me who else our town was gay. We didn’t talk about my sexualy, not bee he was homophobic, but bee speakg about would mean he would have to wrap his head around the physily of me beg gay, and that was far too an awkward nversatn for both of the week that the article about my g-out was released, I lled my mother for a chat, and the background I uld hear my father shoutg: “Is that Rory.
” My father, a big fan of the TV s Mrs Brown’s Boys, felt that llg me Rory (an openly gay character the show) was enough for me to unrstand that he knew I was gay. Photograph: RTÉ Hughie: 'You fear your parents will never unrstand' Hughie Mghan (26), who has appeared on Big Brother, Eatg wh the Enemy on Virg Media and First Dat Ireland on RTÉ, speaks of the homophobia he has experienced.
While he adms that homophobia Ireland is not as bad as was, the past he faced heavy abe om wh the Traveller muny. 'The homophobia I faced the muny ma me feel at that pot that I would have rather been ad. That's how bad was'“I faced homophobia om settled and Traveller muni, but if I am beg hont, I fely faced more om other Travellers.