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The mammy and the minister: How one ordinary mum of a gay son helped convince the government to introduce LGBTQ+ law reform
In an extract from his new book, ‘Reeling in the Queers’, UCD academic Páraic Kerrigan looks at the extraordinary role Phil Moore played in supporting young gay people and their families, and pushing for reform to decriminalise homosexuality
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In April 1989 Phil Moore, a mother of two from South Dublin, is sitting among the audience of The Late Late Show. The evening of joyous candour, with prompted laughter from the studio manager and the potential to interact with one of Ireland’s biggest stars, Gay Byrne, as he interviews a host of celebrities, is wasted on Phil. Instead, she is anxious, then becomes frustrated and is finally furious.
Tonight’s special edition of The Late Late Show features a debate around homosexuality and whether Ireland should decriminalise homosexual acts. The Irish government had just been mandated to do so after David Norris’s Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was successful in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) a year earlier, in 1988.
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