The fabulous Panti Bliss delivers a post-show oration at The Abbey, the National Theatre of Ireland that will bring you to tears.
Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss took to the stage following a performance of The Risen People at the National Theatre of Ireland to explain to the audience why as a gay man, he refuses to be oppressed and put in his place by anyone including himself.
Following his appearance on a prime time, Saturday night television show broadcast by RTA when he said: “I believe that people who actively campaign for people to be treated less or for people to be treated differently for being who they are, are in my gay opinion homophobic.”
Some homophobes, bigots and people who actively campaign that gay people are second class citizens took exception to those words and threatened legal action again Panti and RTE. RTE quickly settled and handed over 85,000 euros to the protagonists for the problem to go away.
Panti maintains she refuses to have people who have never been the victim of homophobia tell her what she is allowed to feel oppressed by.
These people have told Panti that unless she is thrown into prison or thrown into a cattle truck it is not homophobic.
Panti reflects that in the view of these bigots, gay people are no longer the victims of homophobia, the homophobes are.
Colin P wrote on the You Tube comments board: “This brilliant speech is a hammer blow to the last vestige’s of bigoted, patriarchal Ireland, mesmerising in it’s integrity and moral authority. So beautifully delivered, in it’s enunciation every single word seared with recognition, yes this was/is my life! So moving, so powerful, so unforgettable, so important. Thank you.”
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