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Panti Bliss is many things: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she's a wittily incisive performer with charisma t | dG1fRkk0Tlp5eW1Ubnc
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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?

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