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Contents:
- “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
- TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE
- HOW IRISH GAYS BEME ‘NORMAL’ – AND WHY THE CHURCH WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH ABOUT
- 10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD
* irish gay culture *
It wasn’t always that way, but there has been a massive shift general attus sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy 1993.
BarsDubl’s olst and biggt gay bar is The Gee, which has been servg the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny for over thirty years. Also worth checkg out is the Internatnal Gay Theatre Ftival, which ually tak place May and featur LGBTQ+-themed productns staged theatr and smaller venu across the cy. Out2Tennis, meanwhile, is Ireland’s gay tennis work, anisg events and tournaments around the cy.
Media ptnPractice your serve wh Out2Tennis, Ireland's gay tennis work.
TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE
His work perdilly vered homosexual referenc and his personal life dit his attractn for men. Rory O’Neill is famoly regnized as the drag queen Panti Bliss and is also a gay rights activist. Origally om Ballrobe, County Mayo, O’Neill grew up a small town and me out as gay his 20s.
HOW IRISH GAYS BEME ‘NORMAL’ – AND WHY THE CHURCH WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH ABOUT
” Norton is openly gay, workg as a prenter for TV and rad.
He me out as gay to the general public 2009 but to his clost fay and iends at the age of 16.
Polil lear Leo Varadkar publicly me out as gay 2015 and was an avid advote for the same-sex referendum.
10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
In recent years, Irish society has unrgone sweepg transformatns, cludg legalisatn of same-sex marriage and crimalisatn of homosexualy. It may e as a surprise to learn that late medieval/early morn Ireland a cult of male homosexualy/bisexualy was apparently not only prevalent but wily tolerated among the upper echelons of Gaelic society, particularly the lerati, but cludg also native kgs and chieftas.
Of implyg a homosexual relatnship wh his patron... From a psychologil standpot seems unlikely that a heterosexual male, even of poetic ste, would have posssed eher the abily or clatn to adopt the role of homosexual lover, or been pable of stag .
The likelihood is that those givg exprsn to homoerotic sentiment were naturally so cled.