PHOTOGRAPHY MARKUS BIDAUX // AS TOLD TO TIM HEAP
I’ve known I was gay since I was six years old but growing up in the Irish Traveller community made it very difficult for me to come out. Homophobia is rooted within the culture of Irish Travellers; it’s a dark and secret world, and when people step out of line, they tend to get beaten up.
I grew up knowing that being gay was not something that most travellers would tolerate and that telling anyone about it would put me at risk. So until I was 24, when I came out to my parents, I lived a lie.