Joan't Stop Me Now 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😷<p>It was at about this time 10 years ago, on Saturday, 23 May, when I burst into uncontrollable tears in a packed pub on the corner of Parliament St in Dublin</p><p>The official result of the marriage equality referendum had just been announced on TV - I had led the Dublin South Central constituency campaign, and months of effort, exhaustion, emotion, and relief erupted from within me</p><p>Ireland said Yes</p><p>An account from then: <a href="https://www.slow-journalism.com/from-the-archive/moment-that-mattered-ireland-votes-to-legalise-same-sex-marriages" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">slow-journalism.com/from-the-a</span><span class="invisible">rchive/moment-that-mattered-ireland-votes-to-legalise-same-sex-marriages</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MarRef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarRef</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MarriageEquality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarriageEquality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MastoDaoine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoDaoine</span></a></p>