Tag: Panti Bliss
Panti Bliss HIGH HEELS IN LOW PLACES now streaming online
One of the upsides effects of the pandemic is that more of our favorite performers, artists, and venues are now making their work available streaming online. Joining this band is London’s Soho Theatre the home of some of the best queer indie theatre and cabaret One of the first glorious videos they have put…
LIVING: a unique portrayal of people living with HIV in Ireland.
For the fourth year running, GCN (Gay Community News) and HIV Ireland again teamed up for a World AIDS Day initiative, and this year they mounted a special project that seeks to give real visibility and celebrate the diversity of people living with HIV in Ireland. LIVING was an innovative, first-of-its-kind, photographic exhibition showcasing a…
Panti Bliss : High Heels in Low Places
If you have never heard of Panti Bliss aka The Queen of Ireland aka A ‘Frigging’ National Treasure then you deserve to have your ‘gay card’ taken away In 2014, Panti landed herself in a legal scandal dubbed ‘Pantigate’. Her speech about homophobia blew everyone away , and has never been bettered since. It…
We Three Kings FIRED! Replaced with We Four Queens this Christmas.
As much as Panti Bliss jokes about it, she is indeed a national (f–king) treasure in her native Ireland. Always a popular drag queen in Dublin, but that all changed on 1 February 2014. Panti a gay rights activist gave a Noble Call speech at the Abbey Theatre in response to the events surrounding a controversy about…
An Audience with the Queen of Ireland : Panti Bliss
Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss has been Ireland’s’ foremost drag queen for over twenty years now, but it wasn’t until one cold February night in 2014 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin that the world sat up and took notice of her. In one of the most impassioned moving speeches about the reality of homophobia…
