Conor Horgan Biography

It is fair to say that the Pantigate story has been one of the biggest stories to emerge in Ireland in 2014. Rory O’Neill appeared on the Saturday show hosted by Brendan O’Connor and held the position that certain people who opposed marriage equality were homophobic. Those very same people took legal action and RTE (some say very meekly) paid out very quickly. The resulting fall out had the country riveted. Filmmaker Conor Horgan was there to record it all for a documentary he was making on Panti. Like Kim Bartley’s documentary This Revolution will Not be Televised the film had evolved into something else entirely by events beyond his control. He had been filming for 4 years on The Queen of Ireland and I began by asking him if this storm erupting was manna from documentary heaven.
“It really was” he laughs. “Rory is a great person and a great interviewee and Panti of course is fantastic but we had sometimes wondered how the story would come together to take in areas such as marriage equality and then it hit”. But did you expect it to go worldwide? “Not really” he continues. “When we filmed Panti in the Abbey Theatre in what became her noble call little did we know that it would become so big. The video has been shared so much around the world at this point. But outside of Ireland the story of the criminalisation of homosexuality is considered historical as if it took place long ago. I was talking to some people from America recently and I told them that homosexuality was only decriminalised in Ireland in 1993. They were actually shocked. That is an important part of the story. The fight for full equality is still going on today”.

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