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Contents:
- OPN: RECENT ARRTS OF GAY MEN DUBL PUBLIC TOILETS ECHO THE DARK AG
- THE BT OF GAY DUBL
- GAY CISG DUBL (CALIFORNIA)
- EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM
- DUBL GAY DISTRICT: TEMPLE BAR
- DUBL: GAY AND LBIAN DUBL
OPN: RECENT ARRTS OF GAY MEN DUBL PUBLIC TOILETS ECHO THE DARK AG
Some believe that recent arrts of gay men the public toilets by unrver placloth members of An Garda Schána are entrapment. * gay cruising dublin city centre *
I am wrg this piece to exprs my sadns and anger surroundg the arrt of five young gay men at Dubl’s Marks & Spencer toilets, Mary Street June of this year.
THE BT OF GAY DUBL
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This is not some new phenomenon, they even have a term for gay men havg sex public toilets: ttagg. As Ireland pris self as a tolerant and equal society, how n we possibly rema silent if this persecutn of gay men ntu to be ployed by the state?
GAY CISG DUBL (CALIFORNIA)
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Firstly, I was ma aware by members of the Brazilian gay muny that the Brazilian gay men volved the Marks and Spencer toilets se were named and shamed cludg disclosure of their private addrs while “a married man wh children” was not named.
The other disturbgly dark si to this story is the age-old associatn of gay men and children beg dragged to the urtroom.
I shudr when I hear this very subtle way of associatg paedophilia wh gay men and repuls me to hear this still beg brought to an Irish urtroom. Gay men have had to put up wh years of this shamg narrative around the abhorrent associatn wh paedophilia, serly impactg their mental health. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).
EXPLORG THE DOUBLE LIFE A PUBLIC PARK HAD FOR GAY PEOPLE IRELAND DURG DARKER TIM
The cy’s pact size means ’s easy to bop om place to place and LGBT travellers shouldn’t feel they’re limed to ‘official’ gay-iendly venu; would be difficult to fd a venue Dubl cy centre you won’t be wele .
DUBL GAY DISTRICT: TEMPLE BAR
If you want to dive head-first to the gay scene though, the are the plac to start.
DUBL: GAY AND LBIAN DUBL
As many Wtern ci, gay bars are more likely to be closg down than openg up Dubl, as homosexualy be more accepted across all venu.
North of the Liffey, Pantibar ntu to draw crowds, thanks part to beg owned by the unofficial queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss, bonafi drag royalty and one of the untry’s leadg gay rights activists.