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"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