During the 1970s gay men were beginning to appear more frequently in the Irish media landscape. Lesbians however were still all but invisible. By 1980, that was to change when Joni Sherran, a young lesbian activist, appeared on Ireland’s most popular television programme, The Late Late Show. When Joni walked into Studio One in RTÉ to be interviewed by Gay Byrne on February 9, 1980, she was to become a beacon of hope and a source of inspiration for generations of Irish lesbians, and the LGBT community more broadly, watching at home. She later changed her name to Joni Crone.
This was not the first time that Joni was slotted to appear on RTÉ television however. During the run of The Live Mike show, Joni had agreed to appear and be interviewed in 1979. Subsequently, the production team got nervous about having a lesbian on the show and decided to drop the interview. For my part as a person working in TV Sound Dubbing at RTÉ, it caused a gulf between me and one of the producers, a rift which was to last almost ten years.
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