In 2015, the youth of Ireland, driven by the politically active young queers of Ireland, made grá the law, and in 2018 we did it again -and made mná the law.
As a 26 year old lesbian myself, who sort of stumbled ‘out’ during Marriage Equality as was campaigning between where I’m from in rural Longford and my college at the time in Maynooth University, have seen a generation of queer young people fight to just be themselves. We are still fighting. Fighting for gender neutral bathrooms and spaces, for recognition, for access to decent healthcare, against bullying in schools and workplaces and even at home. We’re fighting to be included in the story of Ireland even still, right down to the relationships and sexuality education we have (or sort of have) and representation in books and on screen.