This book is as much a celebration of queer joy, as it is an insight into the transgression, trauma and tragedy that shaped queer Ireland over the past fifty years
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It is also a story of allyship and the small but significant acts of solidarity across the island of Ireland. These include the Belfast Lesbian Line, volunteer make-up and clothes shopping assistants for gender-queer people, and the mothers, aunts, “bent politicians” and members of clergy who provided practical and emotional support, not to mention safe spaces for their queer peers and loved ones to just “be”.
Kerrigan’s prose is a medium to share and promote these moving stories. It doesn’t come with its own character but functions efficiently to draw a tender portrait of the quiet heroes, and acts of everyday heroism, that served to advance the rights and dignity of queer Ireland.Reeling in the Queers by Páraic Kerrigan: a reminder of the stigma and violence gay people faced
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