‘LGBTI community fosters vibrant, competitive society’
Diplomatic CircuitOct 8, 2018
As a gay person living in Ireland in the 1980s, life was difficult for Rory O’Neill, who is now the country’s foremost drag queen and LGBTI rights activist. Over the past 35 years, however, Ireland, thought of as a traditionally conservative Catholic nation, has undergone profound transformations, so much so that the country legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. Ireland’s experience of toleration of minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, has made the countr