Contents:
- Q&A: SéAD O’CONNOR ON HOW GAYS CHANGED HER LIFE & GETTG HER ‘D*CK HARD’
- SEAD O’CONNOR: THE GAY TERVIEW
- NOTHG COMPAR: SéAD O’CONNOR, A PATRONISG GAY BYRNE, AND THE SHOCK WAV OF THAT PHOTO-RIPPG MOMENT
Q&A: SéAD O’CONNOR ON HOW GAYS CHANGED HER LIFE & GETTG HER ‘D*CK HARD’
The exceptn: this chat, durg which Séad relled her troductn to the gay muny – and how that muny gave her the urage to be herself, speak out and “take sh. So knowg that, and also beg a gay man who grew up Catholic, I n’t help but listen to “Take Me to Church” and thk ’s more than jt a song about romance. When was the first time you felt a nnectn to gay people your life?
I grew up Ireland and there was no such thg as “gay” the ’70s.
SEAD O’CONNOR: THE GAY TERVIEW
I had never even heard of “gay, ” except for there was a female impersonator who had a big TV show the ’70s, a guy lled Danny La Rue. I ed to love his show, but I never knew there was any such thg as gay until I was 17.
So I had actually never heard of any such thg as gay until I went to the Hippodrome, and put this way, I was really jealo that I was never gonna look that fuckg good. I actually fd the whole gay muny an enormo spiratn to me bee, J, I’ve never taken the kd of sh gay people take. No, I know, but I suppose a way what I’m tryg to say is that ’s easier to take sh when you are spired by people such as those the gay muny.
NOTHG COMPAR: SéAD O’CONNOR, A PATRONISG GAY BYRNE, AND THE SHOCK WAV OF THAT PHOTO-RIPPG MOMENT
You told Entertament Weekly 2005, “I’m three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay.