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Contents:
- GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI
- ‘WHEN YOU ARE A PERSON OF LOUR IRELAND PEOPLE DON’T SEE YOU AS GAY’
- EXPLORG THE EXPERIENC OF OLR GAY MEN LIVG IRELAND
GAY IRELAND TRAVEL GUI
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But that experience is even more plited when you are lbian, gay, bisexual or to terms wh your inty a small town or village – and eventually g out or transng – n be enormoly challengg. I left Rosmon when I was 18, six years after I first realised I was gay.
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‘WHEN YOU ARE A PERSON OF LOUR IRELAND PEOPLE DON’T SEE YOU AS GAY’
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Dpe Rosmon-South Lerim’s famy for votg No the referendum, Keane says the people of his unty are not homophobic.
“She said, ‘You’re that gay fella, aren’t you? ”While Keane lov livg Rosmon today, he adms he felt a need to leave as a young gay man the late 1990s. “I don’t see any difference between beg gay Rosmon, beg gay Athlone, beg gay Kildare town, or beg gay Dubl.
EXPLORG THE EXPERIENC OF OLR GAY MEN LIVG IRELAND
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