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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.

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OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”

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“We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not, ” he told the L. Both films picted gay relatnships. In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job.

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“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. 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. 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.

BACKLASH OVER 'IRA KNEEPPED GAYS' MENT - BUT SENATOR NORRIS STANDS BY CLAIM

"People fet was not that long ago that beg gay was a crimal offence. "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. "But people were beaten for beg gay. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports. McCrory was also one of two UDA lears chosen to meet Mo Mowlam 10 years ago her talks the Maze aimed at salvagg the loyalist now McCrory has bee the first paraary to publicly out himself as a gay man.

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The 43-year-old has swapped a life domated by direct volvement UDA assassatn squads Northern Ireland for one of gay activism his first terview, McCrory has also claimed he was the unlikely spiratn for a novel wrten by one of his former fo - ex-Sn Fe publicy director Danny Morrison. 'Even before I joed the UDA, I ed to pretend I was homophobic.

I hated Catholics, blacks, Jews and gays - even though I was gay myself. The ia was to e a mix among the republin and loyalist mat, to provoke the IRA men to slaggg me about my gay lover Stland.

GAY UDA GUNMAN: 'I HID MY TE SELF'

Morrison wr sympathetilly about this prisoner who is ridiculed for beg gay. " I uldn't tell them was a man, was such a macho, homophobic culture.

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He now attends Gay Pri ralli across Bra om Glasgow to Brighton, regularly viss Manchter's Gay Village and march gay rights monstratns across the untry. Asked if he would march si by si wh Irish republin gay rights activists, he said: 'I've already done that.

In fact I once met a gay guy here om a republin area Belfast.

I don't try to hi the gay muny here Stland or anywhere else. He's also gay, and happier to rne wh his Prottant boyiend than wh his long-lost sister, or his former IRA mandg officer.

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