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O'Neill as Panti Bliss: "If it weren’t for the drag queens and the leather queens being visible, we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere"

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Panti Bliss: EU lessons from the gay rights movement

“Private activism” is worth more than political campaigns, whether people support the EU or gay rights, Panti Bliss, a famous Irish drag queen and rights campaigner, has said.

But a “meek” or “invisible” EU will never win public support, he added.

The drag queen, who spoke to EUobserver at a gay rights fundraiser in Brussels on Wednesday (29 June), compared the Irish referendum in 2015, which legalised gay marriage, to last week’s Brexit vote.

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O'Neill as Panti Bliss: "If it weren’t for the drag queens and the leather queens being visible, we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere"

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