Brendan Courtney

The year before marriage equality, I was attacked on Georgia Street and they shouted, faggot, punched me to the ground.

And it made all the headlines and I had to give an if to out the following night and it took people off the bench.

But the really interesting thing about that for me was the people I was with, we were like, oh God, that was terrible.

That's not great.

We weren't that surprised, right?

Because people had been damaging my shop window and all the kinds of, but what really struck me was my mates, my ally friends, my married sister and my brother-in-law were like, oh my God, that stuff still happens.

So it's worth reminding people that stuff is happening and it's happening more and more and more and it's terrifying.

Yes, it is.

So what it is, it's talking about... After all we've said.

So it's talking about, you know, shouting abuse at people in a safe environment is like the schoolyard.

It's a slagging match, basically.

And people win points based on it.

So it's two teams.

It's actually, it's all the best comedians.

It's Emma Doran, Shane Daniel, Bourne, Gerold Farrelly, loads, two teams of five each.

I'm the ringmaster, the emcee, as it were.

And we did one for Panty last year to celebrate 10 years of marriage equality.

And the fact that Panty did the noble call in the Abbey and it was such a success, the Abbey asked us to come back and do another one.

So it's a fundraiser.

So it's actually showing that you can actually slag people and have banter with people in a controlled environment.