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Ten years later and this is still a god damn masterpiece

10 years later and it broke me down. I hate them a little bit for having done this to us and I hate myself for carrying it with me.

I'm doubtful you'll see these but perchance that you do, I just hope you know how loved you are around the world. I am very grateful for your existence every single day.

09 april 2024

Excellent!

As a gay man who's nearly 60 and came out in 1985 I identify so much with this. Panti is amazing and the voice we all wish we had.

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The fact that i got an ad before this video for an anti trans rage bait documentary is scary

Just beautiful❤

Incredible.

I think your words saved people's lives, the sense of being embarressd by being gay is still so real, why do we still have to come out and allow others to determine our worth ?

Brilliant

What it is like for me growing up and this woke generation take it for granted

Oh and maybe this might explain to family etc why we do have to come out. I was asked why we have to come out. THAT WAS OPPRESSIVE

The fact that people voted on my human rights was so not right. All good and well that it was passed but what if!!

I still cry watching this. What a speech! Thank you Panti for disallowing our betters from defining the parameters of the debate in the referendum.

It’s an incredible speech and delivered with such honesty, and strength within the pain of those experiences. Although not gay, I can relate to the feeling of being different and trying to hide myself in public that when she spoke of the feelings of self hatred when trying to “check myself” for any “gayness”, it reminded me of my own behaviour. A speech like that doesn’t come about very often. It’s through years of serious hurt and the constant indignity of people telling you who you should be instead of being loved for who you are. His observations on how people discuss gay people also made realise how unfair and wrong it is. Go Panti Bliss! 🖤👏✨

We are here for a short time so let’s make it a good time! Be good people!

Well said Patti Bliss .. it is ONLY those who feel oppressed who can define that which they feel discriminated against !

It's lovely, but difficult to watch this when I can identify. I never have issues now, but when younger was different. Had coke bottles and gay slurs thrown at me at the crossings. It doesn't leave you.

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Drag queens signal to muslims that their time has come to take over. I see the drag queen phenomenon as big trouble.

I feel like I've just been stabbed in the heart and I worry for my beautiful perfect child who I would fight to the death for 😢

8 years on and this is as relevant as ever. Particularly regarding transphobia.

I saw this years ago and I'm just rewatching it now in 2022. Respect to Panti! Thank you for standing up for us and speaking about an experience that so many of us can relate to! You are a champion!

I liked this guy when I first heard him speak. Now, however, I see him for the ignorant, mysogenistic, men's rights activist that he is. Women matter too, and they deserve spaces of their own, away from males of all kinds.

FFs

Brilliant! Thank you so much - deeply insightful - a speech easily remembered by the heart❤

It was so wow for me to see it for the first time. You were like my hero. But now you're not. You are just an another lgbt activist who doesn't care about real lifes and real problems of lgbtq+ people. Its so sad after watching this speech

Is that Panti doing the Mammy…….brilliant stuff

I admire Rory O'Neill for this and for all his intersectional activism. 8 years later you still can relate to his words, the only difference is that we have partially enacted marriage equality (many parents still having problems with their full recognition). If you are clever enough, you could change the type of hatred that he was trying to explain and understand how the systems of oppression we perpetuate in society work: patriarchy, racism, classism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc. Let's keep fighting because there always be people who benefit from these systems of oppression and we must target them instead. We are more, way more.

All these years later, it still chokes my up to watch this. I identify with everything Panti said. Who would have thought, 8 years after this Marriage Equality would become the law of the land in the United States. More importantly, we are likely to lose all of our gains, due to an activist, alt-right, cis, straight, anti-LGBTQ, white supremacist SCOTUS.

Hi English class

Just extraordinarily brilliant

How are we supposed to guess Panti was middle class? There is nothing about her that gives that impression to me. There is nothing that doesn't either. If its her accent, then to me, as lovely as her voice is, it doesnt sound any more refined that any other Irish accent to me. If its something else, then what am I missing?

Just been rewatching this powerful speech, as I was telling my brother about it earlier. It really is mind blowing.

Listening to you from Roscommon years after you made this speech its so sad to think people still make judgement after what has happened in Sligo for me as a gay man it's sad to think that this nonsense still exists across all age groups all I want is the freedom to live without being stigmatised for who I am the song Small-town boy says it all in my opinion I would like to thank you for this speech Share the love not the hate ❤

Dear Rory: thanks for this wonderful video, which reminds me of the days before the pandemic shut us all down. May this year's Panti Pride be bigger and more joyous than ever! You'll be getting invaded by my LGBTQIA friends from Tijuana in June. Tijuana Pride happens a week before Dublin Pride and we're all headed over together for a month. (I live 7 miles from the Mexican border with the U.S. and the open minded on both sides of the border see the ugly border fence as an affront and an assault to humanity.)

Went early to avoid door tax to drink

Always come back to this video. Hit such a chord with me.

Personally I'm not bothered because I'm secure enough in myself not to trouble myself with ignorant people and yes I've been punched, spat on, se xu ally assaulted, shouted at had my door graffiti I've had it all and more mate because I'm a woman and a lesbian.

Great speech i am a transvestite it so nice here you tell everybody

Brilliant!

Loved the speech, from New Zealand, shared it all over Facebook too since everyone to needs to see this

Superb

This is superb.

I must have been on a mission to Mars those days because this speech has escaped me to this day. I am an "age-impaired" gay man and every single word of this speech has resonated with me so deeply I can't even begin to describe it. Resonated and cut. Thank you for saying these words. Seven years later, I still thank you.

I have yet to find a more eloquent and real definition of homophobia. That's why I keep recommending this video to my friends and acquaintances. Thank you so much for existing, Panti! I lived in Ireland when all of that happened and I was also lucky to have lived there still when you became the face of the fight for equal marriage in Ireland.

Moving things to say, but why does he have to be dressed as an insulting and degrading parody of a woman while doing it ? Why does he get to blatantly disrespect all of us while speaking about how he's being disrespected ?

I have never been so confused.