From the Pantibar!!!

Omackeral wrote: »

We need it, tomorrow is Gay Christmas, where's your festive queer cheer?

In all honestly, if I saw anyone abusing two lads for simply holding hands I'd love nothing more than to go over and smash their bigoted faces in. I'm glad society has moved on leaps and bounds but I'm not daft enough to think everything is all rosey either for gay peeps. I'd love the day that a major sports star being gay simply isn't really news.

On the other hand, one thing I will say is miss me what all that OTT stereotypical ''shut up bitch'' carry-on. That sh*t is parody level stuff and I've no time for it.

For me a major sports star being gay isn't and should not be news.
For a lot, maybe most, of the people, organisations, media pushing pride as a most important event it would be.
That is the difference, for most of us, what you like to suck on, is none of our business and we just don't care.
Being gay means only one thing and one thing only. You like cock.
For everything else you are with the rest of us, some will find life easy, some will find it hard.
Some will have great success, most will plod along like the most of the rest of us and some will fail, badly in some cases.

A brick with a homophobic message attached thrown through the window of Panti bar just now. There are definitely still issues.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PantiBliss/status/1012828435968905217?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

How about you stop commenting on issues you clearly know nothing about and realize your privilege?

And what privilege would that be?

Conservatory wrote: »

One of them is in Miami. The rest apart from one were probably just random attacks. There’s one about adoptin stuff where a couple adopted a baby and want to move here with him. It’s hardly martyr stuff.

Issues affecting primary school teachers would probably be more interesting

Are you a Catholic Conservatory? I've met many claiming to be Catholic but very few are Christian. The most notorious homophobic attack from memory was Declan Flynn in 1982
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan_Flynn

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

I really shouldn't have to explain that to you.

Well it looks like you are going to have to.
It not that I am demanding it, it's just that you raised it you are going to have to expand on it.
It's up to you, I can't order or make you do anything.

yesto24 wrote: »

You do realise 10 years ago was 2008?
Things were not that bad then.
Even 20 years ago I don't think that would have happened.

Yeh I don't think it was that bad in 2008..societal normalisation and acceptance really changed incredibly rapidly almost immediately around and after the referendum though, I remember my boyfriend and I if we were out together in public before the referendum a lot more people would stare and theres only been a handful of instances in ireland where anybody physically or verbally attacked us, and all happened before the referendum , could be just chance

I remember seeing other gay couples out in dublin before 2015 was still a bit of a novelty, you just see so many gay and lesbian couples now though, especially really young gay couples, I can't remember the last time anybody so much as glanced longer than usual at me and my boyfriend holding hands since the referendum tbh

Conservatory wrote: »

Straight lads get hidings as well. You know there’s all this stuff about violence against gays and violence about women but straight men getting hit never gets reported much.

I’d say more gay men and women get beaten by their partners these days than get beaten by homophobes.

I get where you are coming from. However, gay people are generally getting the **** kicked out of them because they are gay. A straight guy or a straight woman gets the **** kicker out of them for reasons GENERALLY unrelated to their sexual orientation

trick wrote: »

I get where you are coming from. However, gay people are generally getting the **** kicked out of them because they are gay. A straight guy or a straight woman gets the **** kicker out of them for reasons GENERALLY unrelated to their sexual orientation

And what is worse?
They are both going to hurt just as bad. Are gay bones more brittle than straight bones? Does gay skin cut more easily than straight skin?
This is the problem of the idea of a hate crime, surely all crimes of kicking the **** of someone innocent is a hate crime?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We already had that day back in the 1950's.

Apply that logic next time and we won't have Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, etc.

Im sure at some point we won't even be calling them those names or celebrating them the same in fear of offending someone.