Coming Out: Irish Gay Experiences

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"Coming Out: Gay Experiences is a testament to the lives of gay women and men, their families and friends in Ireland over the past few decades. It is a testament, some of the time, that contains fear and pain, lives maimed, decisions postponed, secrecy and shame. Equally, it is a testament to joy, acceptance and fulfillment. It is a tribute too, to those organisations and individuals who offered help with such selfless ease and care when help was desperately needed by gay people and by those close to them. These stories are useful now, not only ...
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"Coming Out: Gay Experiences is a testament to the lives of gay women and men, their families and friends in Ireland over the past few decades. It is a testament, some of the time, that contains fear and pain, lives maimed, decisions postponed, secrecy and shame. Equally, it is a testament to joy, acceptance and fulfillment. It is a tribute too, to those organisations and individuals who offered help with such selfless ease and care when help was desperately needed by gay people and by those close to them. These stories are useful now, not only as history - what the search for love and sexual self-realisation was like in a dark time - but part of what is happening all around us still, as, in the silence of the self, and in the society we have built, young people come to terms with who they really are and who they might become." This book is offered as a resource not just for the gay community, but also for their family, friends, work colleagues, indeed anyone who wishes to understand what being gay means. Ultimately this book asks the question: 'Is it better to be hated for what we are than loved for what we are not?'.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781856079044
  • Publisher: Currach Press
  • Publication date: 4/2/2004
  • Pages: 308
  • Product dimensions: 5.36 (w) x 8.32 (h) x 0.98 (d)

Table of Contents

Complete reversal 17
I, deaf, lesbian 22
Father and son I 29
Father and son II 32
Fragments of a fairy 35
A woman dispossessed 45
I never knew I was gay 52
Mary and Joe 58
Silent screams 60
Dublin in the rare auld times 63
A rambling garden 67
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? 72
Enjoying retirement 80
Life begins 84
Coming to terms with being gay 89
Out of the cold I have called my son 93
My teenage friend coming out to me 106
My grandmother, God and I 108
Two ordinary lives 111
Mary, my daughter 121
Gay in the shadows 123
Lesbian mums and their baby boy 127
A bad story with a good ending 134
David 140
Being gay : it's only part of who I am 147
A chat in the kitchen 151
I was so lucky with my gay son 156
Enniscence 164
So far along the road 176
'Til deceit do us part 181
Being different in a rural area 184
Changing through life's journey 188
Coming and going 191
A window on my soul 197
We're gay but still mums 206
Growing up gay in the '90s 211
Priesthood : no place to hide 223
The Saturday night lad 228
Galway wedding 235
My gay dad 239
To A. 242
The Bible and Christian living : homosexuality as a test case 247
Love's endeavour, loves expense 260
The Garda gay liaison officer 269
Implementing equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people 275
Welcoming church 279
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