“A lot of young Traveller men have to get married to a girl and have a family"

[barryqwalsh]

"They can’t come out and be happy because they can be disowned and they can be beaten up. It is tougher coming from a Travelling community than a settled community."

“Many in the Travelling community will bully you, laugh at you and call you names. I knew a lad last year who came out in the Travelling community and his family didn’t accept him and because his family didn’t accept him he took his own life. He couldn’t live with his family not accepting him.”

Mr Collins explained that he has been through a difficult number of years but now wants to help others.

He got engaged when he was 15 to a young Traveller woman and had girlfriends in between but realised when he was 18 that he was gay.




http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/...orment-before-coming-out-as-gay-35078122.html

 

[The Great Goose]

Why is being in a straight couple such an imposition?

 

[Mousterian]

Somtmin' goin' on here...that utube link took me to a menstrual cycle page.

 

[waltky]

More likely their goin' after older women with money.

 

[squeeze berry]

Pikeys get drunk and beat on each other with regularity not to mention inbreeding.
They can't speak proper English. They get by stealing and squatting.
Disgrace to white community of English speakers

 

[barryqwalsh]

The struggling, rural, white communities that feel like nobody cares

September 27, 2016 at 6:20 PM EDT
In “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance explores life in some of the most geographically secluded


In “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance explores life in some of the most geographically secluded parts of the country and the mountain of problems communities there are facing, from economic issues to drug addiction. The subject is a personal one for Vance, who was raised by his grandparents in Appalachia. Judy Woodruff sits down with him to discuss his experience and how these issues came to be.


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The struggling, rural, white communities that feel like nobody cares

 

[blastoff]

They're basically thieves and con artists. Occasionally some go straight and seek elective office where they'd fit right in with their new peers.

 

[barryqwalsh]

Today with Sean O'Rourke

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Gay and a Traveller - one young man's struggle for acceptance

Darren Collins from Tullamore, Co. Offaly

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