If you are a regular reader of this site, then you will know that one of queerguru’s very favorite LGBTQ1 activists is the Irish Drag Queen Panti Bliss. Since her ground-breaking Nobel Call Speech in Dublin’s Abbey Theater a few years ago, which is unquestionably one of the most powerful heart-thumping pieces of oration of gay rights that you are ever likely to hear, we stand in total awe and simply cannot get enough of her.
Panti is even more passionate about our community than she is about her sparkly sequin frocks, and was one of the main forces behind the vote in Ireland that finally made same-sex marriage legal there at last. There is even a new documentary on her life aptly named The Queen of Ireland which has not been released in the US yet but we were privileged to get a sneak preview ….here is our full review.
Now Dr Panti Bliss (she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Dublin’s Trinity College for her humanitarian work) is at it again with powerful speech at the European Equality Gala in Brussels that makes a great deal of sense about homophobia in the wake of the Orlando killings.
Panti is fierce and she is funny, but most of all she articulates what so many of us feel but simply do not have her wit, eloquence, drive and her unselfish passion.
