The book Queer Whispers: Gay and Lbian Voic of Irish Fictns, Jose Carregal is published by Universy College Dubl Prs.
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
Wch of Ash and Ru by E. Latimer (YA Bisexual Fantasy) Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle (YA Bi/Lbian Fantasy) At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Gay Historil Fictn) Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue (Contemporary Lbian Fictn) The Heart's Invisible Furi by John Boyne (Gay Historil Fictn) Bon: Comg up 2020,… * irish gay book *
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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
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“Men Whout Refuge”: The Subculture of Cisg Irish Gay Short Stori 4. “Love is War”: The Irish Gay Comg-Out Novel5. “He did not F the Bill as a Gay Man”: Narrativ of Gay Life and Inty Celtic Tiger Ireland8.
Ireland and the Uned Stat have both travelled a dizzygly fast path acceptg homosexualy and supportg same-sex marriage. The two untri, lked mon stereotype by their relig fervour and their nservative moral attus, have both gone om prevalent homophobia to wispread acceptance ls than a the Uned Stat, popular support for gay marriage has gone om ls than a quarter 1994 to nearly two-thirds by 2013. 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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They are “risk acceptant” the language of social science: willg to urt stigma and disda for their drs, behavur and mands, which are perceived as mpy, outrageo and radil by the rt of as more and more gay people e out, what is strikg about them is how “normal” they are: the neighbour or -worker wh whom we’ve shared gossip and beer out of the closet, but nothg else about them has changed.
In this suatn, most people will shift their view of homosexualy, rather than droppg a iend.
In fact, recent experimental rearch shows that even a brief ntact of 20 mut or so wh a iendly dividual who reveals they are gay n have lastg effects creasg warm feelgs towards gays and votg on gay-iendly measur.
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After the legalisatn of homosexualy 1993, and the revelatns of what was often seen as church hypocrisy, the atmosphere beme ls the air cleared of cense, more gays uld e out – and their polil mands had also shifted, to the most mundane and “normal”: the right to marry and to have fai. ”This is exactly the dynamic of gays revealg themselv to be simply… borg and normal, no different om their straight unterparts.