But it is also the year that Trinity academic Pádraic Whyte refers to as the first Irish gay bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, was published. In the history of what was still then simply ‘gay rights’, 1993 marks the year a Victorian law that criminalised male homosexual acts was repealed (thank you, David Norris). How did we get here? This era of representation of and for young LGBTQ+ people is made possible, in an Irish context, by the events of 1993. In fact, they’re in the bookshop in the first place trying to find the Heartstopper graphic novels, a series in which almost no straight characters exist. A cynic might wonder: which box on the anti-bullying policy does this tick?īut other unthinkable things happen: school librarians have Pride displays, as do bookshops, and young people actually select titles from them. Cut to the 2020s, with Progress Pride flags (the updated rainbow) hanging outside schools.
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