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When I was young, in the 50’s, there were no gays in Ireland, no child abuse and no prostitutes … you had to travel to England to find that sort of thing [OK, Oscar Wilde was an exception and Molly Malone was really a good catholic girl].

Having worked in San Francisco and in Sweden I have never really considered being gay as being an issue so I was not paying much attention to the recent referendum campaign here in the Republic Of Ireland. I had assumed that the vote would be “YES” but I was amazed by the turnout and the massive majority in favour of changing to constitution.

A few hours ago I could not make my way home along Capel Street as it was packed with the gay community celebrating their referendum victory.

In case you are not aware Ireland became the first country in the world to bring in same-sex marriage by a popular vote. 62% of voters voted Yes in the same-sex marriage referendum, a result that has been described as a social revolution, an expression of decency and a country coming of age. 1.2 million people voted Yes for same sex marriage.
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Source TODAY IRELAND [ROI] BECAME THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE [62% OF THE VOTERS SAID YES] REF-104374
Author William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland

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