LGBTQ Visibility Media and Sexuality in Ireland, by Páraic Kerrigan

Abstract

22 May 2015, when the Irish people overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to marry for same sex couples in their country’s constitution, is a nodal point in modern Irish history and a key date for the larger, international LGBTQ rights movement. Internationally, this made Ireland the first country to enact such reforms by popular vote. Domestically, the 62% Yes vote has now come to be viewed as the turning of a historical page and the end of any feeling, among the LGBTQ community, of cultural or national exclusion (Bird; Murphy). This keystone event was followed by other markers of progressive modernity.