Queer Whispers: Gay and Lbian Voic of Irish Fictns, Carregal

Contents:

• HOW IRISH GAYS BEME ‘NORMAL’ – AND WHY THE CHURCH WAS UNABLE TO DO MUCH ABOUT
• AT SWIM, TWO BOYS IS A GREAT IRISH NOVEL, AND A GROUNDBREAKG GAY LOVE STORY
• 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

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2022-releas, achillean, adult-fictn, bisexual, gay, lbian, lgbtq, mlm, nonfictn, queer, sapphic, transgenr, wlw, ya-fictn. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Gay Historil Fictn).

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

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TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE

This would be stunng before any referendum, but is all the more so sce 20 years ago, ls than 20 per cent of Irish rponnts accepted homosexualy, much ls same-sex marriage. The rapid pace of the shifts public opn only seems to crease, a s of support for gay rights and same-sex Bee of a peculiar paradox: the fact that homosexualy n be hidn mak s acceptance pecially rapid. In nservative societi, the first openly gay people a society have to be pecially brave: and are likely to be different om the rt.

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And beg “normal”, gays have gaed greater and greater acceptance, promptg more and more people to live their liv outsi of the the vantage pot of the Uned Stat, two aspects of the Irish referendum are so strikg. Send, spe the radil change attus towards homosexualy, attus and polici towards abortn are provg far more durable. 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.

There was still a sense of the clanste to what should have felt perfectly a young gay man behd a bookshop unter, I watched the people who bought At Swim, Two Boys – and there were a lot of them – and ed as a tool for flirtatn. 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.

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