Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

But it certainly helped me when I was younger.

Yes.

Do you like yourself?

Yeah.

Yes.

Like I can be quite lazy.

Although I say that and then I look back and I think, God, well, actually, whatever.

But, you know, I do feel that about myself that I can be a bit like, oh,

oh muddle through there you know and there are other things I know I can be a bit annoying because I'm so sure about some things or whatever but you do like yourself I think I'm you know a good person who doesn't hold terrible things about people yeah I suppose and you say and a lot of people who are queer they grapple initially with their sexuality and that's more society's fault I would say than

Like, you know, if we grew up in a society that didn't give a shit, then queer people wouldn't either.

I do credit being queer with a lot of the things that I like about myself.

But, you know, there are lots of assholes who are also gay.

You know, I think being queer can either, you know, really fuck you up or it can give you an opening to really understand yourself or think...

I think when I was, say, 17 or something, right?

And I'm starting art college in Dun Laoghaire, which I went to because I wanted to meet another gay person.

And I did!

Yay!

I met one!

I met one!

Who's still me mate all these years later.