Why this former homophobe is voting Yes

A Yes vote will not affect the great majority, but will bring much happiness to a small minority

Being a teenage homophobe in 1980s Ireland was an easy enough thing. Jokes about bums

to the wall and poofters and all the rest of it meant that you never met anyone who used

the phrase “gay rights”, never mind supported it. The only gays you really

knew were John “I’m Free!” Inman on Are you being served? and Larry

“Shut that door!” Grayson on The Generation Game, and they were

entertaining, English ...