The Queen of Ireland | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00And now, please give it up for your National Treasurer, it's Panti!

00:09How are you all doing?

00:16The time has come to raise the roof and raise the curtain!

00:20He's his own man, really, isn't he?

00:22I'm from a small town in County Mayo called Ballinrobe.

00:26Ballinrobe is your typical Irish country market town.

00:29I just started to feel different than the other boys.

00:31I didn't really enjoy the same things that they did.

00:34Everybody knows the local gay.

00:36I went to London and I sort of got involved in going out and clubbing and drag queens and all that stuff.

00:44My job as a drag queen is to commentate from the fringes,

00:48to stand on the outside looking in, shouting abuse.

00:52Look at me, I'm dressed as a giant woman.

00:55I'm the gayest thing in the world.

01:00Any soccer hooligan, any fascist, any murderer, any sex offender can get married.

01:07But you cannot.

01:10Let the gays get married and the sky will fall down.

01:13Get behind the campaign, do your bit.

01:20We are on the cusp of significant change that goes way beyond just simply giving marriage rights to gay people.

01:26I think the future for young LGBT people is incredible now in this country.

01:34I'm going to be really honest with you before we get started. I'm crapping it.

01:38While I breathe life into panty, she breathes more life into me.

01:48How did this happen? It's nuts. Nuts.

01:56How did this happen?