Anti-gay attitudes in Northern Ireland are changing
Parties that support the union with Great Britain are modernising—some faster than others
SHORTLY BEFORE taking command in May of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), a now-diminished force that once dominated Northern Ireland, Doug Beattie gave a memorable speech. “I am a straight man,” he told the region’s assembly. “There is no fix or cure for me; there is no therapy that will make me a gay man…Why would we say that a gay man can be fixed or cured?”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Saving Ulster”
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