Irish gay man opens up about fdg a queer muny outsi the bigger ci • GCN

Contents:

• AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY
• IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI
• GAY IRELAND
• GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER
• “GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD

AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY

We didn’t crimalise homosexualy until 1993 – more than a quarter-century after siar laws had been enacted Great Bra – and yet by 2015 we’d bee the first untry the world to vote by plebisce for same-sex marriage.

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IRISH GAY MAN OPENS UP ABOUT FDG A QUEER MUNY OUTSI THE BIGGER CI

In love wh lerature but starved of books that spoke to their own experienc of beg gay Ireland. Thanks, Jamie O’Neill, I owe you urse, At Swim, Two Boys is a universal novel that enpass much more than simply the gay experience. Who among , gay, straight or somewhere between, has not felt that nfn?

GAY IRELAND

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As Stephen Healy, a 47 year-old gay man om a small town ral Cork highlighted, for many queer people smaller ral areas what matters is havg people that make you feel unrstood and supported regardls of their own inty. Stephen had a siar experience his twenti when he travelled to a group for closeted gay men. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).

GAY DATG – FD YOUR IAL IRISH PARTNER

Gay IrelandDisver Ireland, an island the North Atlantic, the third largt Europe. Learn more about the gay scene Dubl and Cork. Although this film is set Cuba, ’s wrten by Irish gay man, Mark O’Halloran, directed by an Irish man, and fund by the Irish film board, so we’re claimg as an Irish film.

Jt as Jús (Héctor Meda) gets a start his dream job as a drag queen at his gay lol Havana, his tranged macho father (Je Pegorría) lands on his doorstep, and forbids him to perform. Deeply closeted at a time when homosexualy is still a crimal offense Ireland, the middle-aged Alfie creat a lol sndal when he announc a productn of Osr Wil’s play Salome, starrg untry girl Ale (Tara Fzgerald) and Robbie (Ruf Sewell), the b driver for whom Alfie secretly p.

Hapls civil servant, Shane (Michael Legge) gets more than he bargaed for when he mov to an apartment wh a gay fashn stunt, Vcent (Allen Leech). Angie (Flora Montgomery) is the lbian who has an affair wh bisexual Clara, then falls love wh Kate, and then has a hapls one-night-stand wh her gay bt iend, Red, and be pregnant. ‘Big’ Kev (Andrew Bent) and “Ltle’ Kev (Michael Legge, Cowboys & Angels) are a gay uple this Irish answer to The Haner, which follows a band of bondg boys on a stag party the wilds of Wicklow.

“GAY GAELS” WHO HAVE ENRICHED IRELAND’S HISTORY AND CULTURE FOR THE WORLD

Dpe the director beg a gay man, ’s easy to thk the gays are there jt for show, but then they bee the centre of the tensn as we realise ‘Big’ Kev isn’t ved to the weddg bee the father of ‘Ltle’ Kev (and the groom) is agast their relatnship.

It allows for a brief discsn on a divi between young and old generatns on the subject of homosexualy that seems dated already, but the film’s gay payoff is genuely movg. © 2016 GCN (Gay Communy News).