The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
Members of the LGBT+ community feel less safe in Clare than they did five years ago, with an increase in homophobic commentary on social media forcing many people to hide their identity or leave their home county. There was a marked increase in homophobic comments online ahead of this year’s Clare Pride Weekend, which took place at the end of September. A number of these homophobic comments were made in relation to an article promoting Clare Pride which appeared on The Clare Champion website. One comment read, “Please stop propagating the unatural (sic). Why not have an event for normal hetrosexual (sic) people as we seem to be becoming the minority”. Another comment which read, “Oh dear God give us a break from that nonsence (sic)”, was liked 209 times on Facebook before the post was disabled. According to Shannon woman, Karina Murray, who helped organise Clare Pride this year, homophobic behaviour in Clare has increased dramatically over the past …
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