“‘What do I do? This is it. I can only be myself. There is no other version.”
Read More“What I want to do with my art, my performance and my life is to cultivate more of a culture of positivity and healing and love, rather than tearing each other down to get a level up.”
Read More“Maybe the narrative and story of queer urban life is stronger but there has been societal change and a mind shift in the country.“
Read More“The LGBTQ+ community needs to understand that immigration is the future, and the hope for a healthy society.”
Read More“Grace reflects what I didn’t have, and what I wanted to create as well.”
Read More“It’s helped to bring me out. I mean, I’m a struggling, stand-up comedian – who also struggles to stand up!”
Read More“As a gay man of Kenyan decent, I have struggled at some stages of my life to satisfy the expectations of the black community, while still staying true to my gay self…”
Read More“I think a lot of techno parties and clubs can be very hetero environments. More and more, there’s a narrative of inclusion.”
Read More“It’s about enjoying whatever sort of sex or drugs, with an onus on all of us to look out for each other.”
Read More“Information was targeted to make you fearful. Now we see how wrong that was, it has had such long-term effects.”
Read More“Life is brutal but you do everything you can to push through that brutality. Something just constantly makes me pick myself up and push on.”
Read More“While there’s no problem with reconstructing yourself, self-destruction is not the way to go about it.”
Read More“Ireland is undergoing this moment of uncovering and exploring forgotten histories, things that we’ve pushed under the carpet".
Read More"In my floristry work and in my bouquet work, I am probably more masculine rather than pretty. I see how things are growing and try and reinterpret that".
Read More"Queerness as a political and cultural identity is really important to my process. In the past couple of years I have more confidence in my queerness and I feel part of a queer community in Dublin".
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