Gay Byrne's dghters and his longterm assistant are among the people ntributg to a new documentary on some of the movg and hugely-signifint letters members of the public sent him through the s
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- WHO, AR? ME, AR? GAY, AR? NO, AR…
- WHO AR? ME AR? GAY AR? NO, AR!
- WHO AR? ME AR? GAY AR? NO, AR!
- GAY DEAR, ME DEAR, NO DEAR TIM.
- 'DEAR GAY...': THE LETTERS THAT TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF A NATN
- WHO DEAR ME DEAR GAY DEAR NO DEAR
- ME DEAR? GAY DEAR? ABSOLUTELY DEAR! - GUIDG ANGELS AGENCY
- SULU, GAY AR? HIM AR? NO AR?! – TAKEI, YOU’RE WRONG!
WHO, AR? ME, AR? GAY, AR? NO, AR…
A great memorable quote om the The Cathere Tate Show movie on - Var Characters: Who ar? Me ar? Gay ar? No, ar! * me dear gay dear no dear *
Brilliant Faye is another of my favoure characters, a highly effemate, mp and closeted gay man who be ultra-fensive and hostile when qutned about his sexualy. Gay ar?
WHO AR? ME AR? GAY AR? NO, AR!
One of my iends at work asked why I was at work on Wednday - he assumed I'd be participatg "Day Whout A Gay" and would've lled gay. Of urse, the first rponse that popped to my head was "How very dare you?" I mt say, the ia of a day whout gays… * me dear gay dear no dear *
One of my iends at work asked why I was at work on Wednday – he assumed I’d be participatg “Day Whout A Gay” and would’ve lled gay.
WHO AR? ME AR? GAY AR? NO, AR!
* me dear gay dear no dear *
I mt say, the ia of a day whout gays was appealg ially – who don’t want an exce to skip work? As a middle-class, middle-management gay wh a relatively stable job, I uld certaly have lled gay – but everyone already knows I’m gay (cludg the many other gays and lbians I work wh) and the pany is one of the “good guys” as were.
GAY DEAR, ME DEAR, NO DEAR TIM.
Guidg Angels Agency: Me Dear? Gay Dear? Absolutely Dear! - See 52 traveler reviews, 67 ndid photos, and great als for London, UK, at Tripadvisor. * me dear gay dear no dear *
I generally do my bt to avoid patronizg bs that are anti-gay or have other unpleasant polil leangs. Meanwhile, the gays who rema the closet bee they fear losg their jobs ( is, after all, legal most stat to fire someone bee of their sexual orientatn); or who live outsi of major urban centers like SF or NYC and have limed choic as to where they’ll shop; or are livg paycheck-to-paycheck and don’t have the luxury of takg a gay day; how n they participate?
)… Like I said, the ia of llg gay for the day is appealg (actually, maybe I n ll gay for a week or two…). Oh, and for those of you who did ll gay, n you let me know what happened on the Judge Judy on Wednday?
Who ar Me ar Gay ar No ar.
'DEAR GAY...': THE LETTERS THAT TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF A NATN
Me ar Gay ar No ar. Gay ar, me ar, no ar.
Jt bee a man lik to drk Port an Lemon and lik a b of Shirley Bassey you assume he's gay! Long before social media beme a 24/7 platform for the airg of opns, Gay Byrne offered an outlet for voic that uldn’t be heard anywhere else. For s, on the Late Late Show and The Gay Byrne Show, the legendary broadster was a nfidant to and a ndu for a society burned wh secrets and shroud a new documentary, Dear Gay, lv to the archiv of RTÉ and exvat people’s personal letters to explore Byrne’s impact through the words of the many people who wrote to him.
When Ryr returned to the archiv, she found a che of letters to the Gay Byrne Show Fund, which was set up to give fancial aid listeners to people need. We then disvered the Gay Byrne Show Fund letters — om 1984 to 1988 there are letters om people that would absolutely break your heart, om people who had fallen to the poverty trap and were stgglg to make ends meet. ” Gay Byrne wh his dghters, Suzy (back) and featured the documentary is Donal Buckley, hband of the late Christe Buckley, whose ground-breakg letter to and terview wh Gay 1992 lifted the lid on the treatment of children Ireland’s dtrial were many letters on other ls ser topics — Ryr also found one rrponnt who had a rbon py of every letter he sent to Byrne over 25 years.
WHO DEAR ME DEAR GAY DEAR NO DEAR
Everythg om people givg out about chickens beg killed on Glenroe to those heartbreakg letters the Gay Byrne Show Fund fil. Gay had his fger on practilly every social change that happened the 25-year perd that’s vered, ” says well as Gay's dghters, Suzy and Crona, another ntributor to the documentary is Mra Connolly, the broadster's personal assistant for 32 years.
“I always had a policy of keepg Gay’s sk pletely ee of everythg, ” she says.
ME DEAR? GAY DEAR? ABSOLUTELY DEAR! - GUIDG ANGELS AGENCY
“One of the most disgtg ems was when time Gay monstrated how to put on a ndom, and someone anonymoly sent a ed ndom — Gay was disgted by that, ” she says. Gay Byrne wh Mra Connolly, the assistant who opened many of the letters he was sent. They gave Gay a green Ireland sweater, and he wore every day workg on the Late Late.
SULU, GAY AR? HIM AR? NO AR?! – TAKEI, YOU’RE WRONG!
“At the heart of all of this is the character of Gay. We all know the fallout om those terviews and those ial letters, and what happened sce but he was the person that enabled people to tell their stori bee an Ireland when nobody else was listeng, Gay was listeng. Dear Gay, RTÉ One, Wednday, June 2, 9.
Gay, ar? 6m long, this is a real statement piece featurg the quote ‘Who ar me ar gay ar no ar.