The Queen of Ireland (2015) - full transcript

A documentary that follows drag queen Panti Bliss: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she's a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is widely regarded as one of the best drag queens in the world. Created by Rory O'Neill, Panti is also an accidental activist and in her own words 'a court jester, whose role is to say the un-sayable'. In recent years, Rory has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and since the 2014 scandal around Pantigate, his fight for equality and against homophobia has become recognised across the world.

[music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[crowd chanting]

Panti! Panti! Panti! Panti!

Panti! Panti! Panti! Panti!

Panti! Panti!

-[crowd cheering]

-Thanks very much.

Thank you so much.

[cheers and applause]

[woman]

Panti!

[crowd chanting]

Equal! Equal! Equal! Equal!

[knock on door]

Panti, it's showtime.

[brassy music playing]

Panti, you look

fucking amazing.

I know.

[crowd applauds]

The challenge with Panti is

probably how laid-back she is.

Yeah.

I am very laid-back,

aren't I?

-[laughs] Yes.

-And occasionally I think Philip

would prefer someone

who's more of a diva,

because I think he gets

a sad sort of, I don't know,

submissive kick out of handling

difficult people.

And I'm just not difficult.

[laughs]

Give us your bits.

What's your headlines?

My headlines?

How are youse?

I look amazing.

Let's get into

a bit of a manifesto.

Then let's get

into Pantigate.

Ah. I'm going to tell

a Madonna story.

Then let's get into

the pressures of being Panti.

Then let's get into sex

and the single drag queen.

Then let's get into

giving out about soccer.

My job as a drag queen

is to sort of commentate

from the fringes,

to stand on the outside

looking in, shouting abuse.

I'm a clown, I'm a fool,

I'm a court jester.

And like the court jester

of old,

it is my job to sometimes

say the unsayable.

And if you have a problem

with that, fucking sue me.

Which is weird, because that

actually happened.

[laughs]

So, what I'm trying

to say to you is that

if you have come along here

this evening

and you are

easily offended,

then this is not

your show.

On the other hand,

you are the kind of person

who loves a joke that begins.

"A nun with Alzheimer's forgets

to walk into a lesbian bar,"

then this is definitely

your show, and welcome.

[crowd cheers]

Hey!

Looking good.

You look gorgeous.

How are you? You good?

Good, good.

Hi, Happy Pride.

[laughs]

How are you?

You good?

-How are you?

-I'm good.

You're a big celebrity,

ain't you?

[laughs]

I feel like

I'm beside Madonna.

[air horns blowing]

[crowd cheering]

[Panti]

It's perfectly easy for,

you know, someone

from the gay community

to listen to a drag queen

make a serious point.

But, you know, to somebody

looking in from the outside,

they have trouble with that,

because they just see

a man dressed as a woman.

[Panti]

Happy Pride, gays...

and innocent bystanders.

[Rory]

If you want to separate

the gay relationships

from the straight relationships

by, "You can't have marriage,

you can have something

that's equivalent,"

or even if it were exactly the

same but had a different name,

I would still

be against that.

Happy Pride, city hall.

For soon I intend

to get married!

[Rory]

Other people are labeling

our relationships

from the outside.

You know, or judging it,

or saying the quality of it--

And unless you're in a gay

relationship, fuck off.

You have no idea

what my relationship is like.

[Panti] I think sometimes

when people look at me,

this giant cartoon woman,

they find it hard to imagine

that I came from anywhere.

Of course,

I am from somewhere.

I'm from a small town in

County Mayo called Ballinrobe.

Ballinrobe is your typical

Irish country market town.

It has a couple of streets,

a town hall,

a cattle mart,

and great excitement

when Tesco came to town.

And even though it now

does have a Tesco,

and a traffic light,

it hasn't really changed much

since I was growing up there,

a young boy called Rory

in the 1970s.

[laughter]

[Finn]

Well, I always think of Rory--

He dressed up in a tutu

belonging to one of the girls

who was doing ballet,

but wearing Wellington boots

underneath it,

and he's leaping around

the sitting room in there.

You know,

that kind of thing.

He was a lovely baby.

He won a Bonnie Baby

competition.

In that respect,

he was a very pleasant child.

But I remember

when he was about two,

he hadn't walked.

And I remember bringing in

the doctor.

And he laughed at me,

because Rory was sitting

on the floor,

surrounded by about

18 other children--

our own five or six,

plus the neighbors had seven,

somebody else had--

And he was completely

surrounded.

And he had no need to walk,

because everybody brought him

everything he wanted.

And then when he stood up,

he stood up and walked.

On the very day, he never

tottered or fell or anything.

When he was ready to walk,

he walked.

And he did

just what he wanted.

-[laughs]

-I think he still does.

Exactly, yeah.

He's his own man, really,

isn't he?

[Rory]

I think until I was 11 or 12,

it was pretty idyllic.

We had a nice house

with a big garden,

and we were at the edge

of the town.

There was a river behind.

Lots of kids on our street.

But I guess around the age

of 11 or 12,

I just started to feel

different than the other boys.

I didn't really enjoy

the same things that they did,

or in the same way.

And it made me feel a bit

like a square peg

in a Ballinrobe-shaped hole.

I went to boarding school,

and all the other boys

would be horribly homesick.

Lots of them would be crying

themselves to sleep at night.

I never was homesick

for a minute.

I was self-aware enough

to know

that I needed to be somewhere

that wasn't Ballinrobe.

[reporter]

Ireland is the only

sovereign EEC country

to still retain criminal

sanctions in law

against homosexuality,

with penalties from ten years

to life imprisonment.

David, are homosexuals

sick people?

No, indeed they're not.

We're neither

sick, ill,

pathological, neurotic

or any of these emotive terms

that are occasionally used

by people

who are not well-informed

on the subject,

to conceal their

own prejudices and to

allege that we are ill.

I don't feel ill,

I hope I don't look it,

and they've

now reached a state

in America

of regarding

homophobe people,

people who have

an irrational fear or

dislike of homosexuals,

as those

who are really ill.

[David Norris]

Well, being the first person

to come out in Ireland

was a rather strange

experience.

I mean, in the beginning,

nothing was said

about homosexuality.

The word wasn't mentioned.

There was no such thing

as gay or anything else.

There was a sort of a gay scene

in Dublin.

But nobody

was in a situation

where they could

come out publicly.

So I was the only one.

But it also led

to the Irish Times

describing me

as the Irish homosexual,

which was rather funny,

you know, because there was

a lot more than me.

But they were just invisible.

The law is clearly grossly

unconstitutional.

The constitution of this country

claims to cherish

all the children

of the nation equally,

and I can tell you

from my experience,

it did not cherish me

as I was growing up.

I hope that we will be

rectifying that.

[Tonie Walsh] Being

an out gay man in the '80s

felt like being

a sexual outlaw.

The same law that sent

Oscar Wilde to prison,

the same law

that was responsible

for countless thousands

of lesbians and gay men

leaving the country

throughout the 20th century

to find a life

in more socially liberal

and accepting

environments,

that same law had the effect

of creating

such a level of offensive taboo

around homosexuality.

And that in itself

was enormously oppressive.

[reporter] In the early hours

of September the 10th last

in Fairview Park in Dublin,

Declan Flynn was set upon

by five men,

including a 15-year-old youth.

He was savagely

beaten unconscious

and left mortally wounded,

adding a new sordid

and vicious phrase

to our contemporary

urban language:

queer-bashing.

[Tonie] What made Declan Flynn's

murder so transformative

was the aftermath,

where his five assailants

were let off with suspended

manslaughter sentences.

And, of course, the public

outrage that erupted in protest

at the judge effectively saying

that a gay man's life

had no value.

[Rory] I didn't know what

I wanted to do with my life,

but I did know

I was interested in art.

I mean, I was always

drawing and doodling.

So I thought,

well, I'll go to art college.

And I thought,

I'll find queers there.

I mean, that's where you find

queers, right? Art college.

[Rory, Sr.]

Because he was always so good

at drawing and cartoons,

I kind of felt that

somewhere in there

he'd be obviously something to

do with the arts, or something.

He'd no inclination to be

a veterinary surgeon, anyhow.

[laughs]

[Rory]

Art college is where I met

my first proper gay,

Niall Sweeney.

And I was lucky, I think,

because we've remained

best friends ever since.

I thought that Niall

had the whole gay thing,

like, down, you know.

First of all, he had

an older boyfriend.

His boyfriend managed

a gay nightclub.

Niall was doing

all the graphics and stuff

for this gay nightclub.

Niall was always, like,

totally turned out

with his purple hair

and, you know,

whatever it was.

So Niall and I

became friends in college.

And through Niall,

I ended up going to things

like nightclubs and Andy Warhol

obituary parties, and whatever.

I loved every second of it.

I was having sex

for the first time,

and there was all that,

you know,

great young nervous energy

around all of that stuff.

It wasn't just, you know,

casually underground.

It was properly underground.

These things were hidden,

and you sort of felt like

you had entered this underworld,

this sort of

parallel universe.

And while you're in there,

you know,

dancing to whatever,

the Pointer Sisters,

and then upstairs

or on the pavement,

just feet away,

there's, like, regular,

ordinary folk, going about

their ordinary, everyday world,

having no idea

that beneath their feet

there were

these illegal homosexuals,

you know,

drinking bloody Campari

and then going home

and fellating each other.

You know, it just seemed

so exciting to me.

Half of my life has been trying

to recapture that excitement.

[music playing]

First time I really remember

doing a proper drag performance

is in college.

I spent my last year in college

designing a drag show.

I had been three years

in art college when I realized,

God, I didn't want

to be a graphic designer.

What was I doing there at all?

My last summer,

I went to London,

and I sort of got involved

in going out

and clubbing and drag queens

and all that stuff.

And that just seemed

like so much more fun to me

than being

a graphic designer.

I had no thoughts

about becoming a drag queen.

I mean, it's funny now you see

all these young drag queens,

and they think

that's a career choice.

It never entered my head

that anybody could make

a living out of drag.

I mean, I didn't know

that anybody could.

And if you'd

said to me then

that I was still going

to be dressing up as a woman,

I would've thought

you were nuts.

[dance music playing]

[Panti]

Gray, depressed 1980s Dublin

was a difficult place

to be fabulous,

so I escaped to

the bright lights of Tokyo.

[dance music playing]

What I remember most

are the freaks and the drags,

the nuts, the gays,

the noise,

the smoke in the clubs

where I made my name.

[Rory]

I had never had any intentions

of doing drag in Tokyo.

I mean, it just never really

entered my mind, really.

And one of the first people

I meet and become mates with,

you know,

was also a drag queen.

Very quickly,

we were partners in crime.

[Angelo]

My drag name was Lurleen.

Rory had used

the name Leticia,

both of which

are impossible

for Japanese people

to pronounce.

So we'd be running around

in clubs dressed in drag,

and no one knew what the hell

we were saying

when we said our names.

So we said,

"Well, we need new names."

And then we came up

with the idea

that we should have

sort of a group name.

[Rory]

The group name was CandiPanti.

But immediately they started

calling us Candi and Panti,

like separate names,

So that just stuck.

[camera shutters click]

Let me tell you

about my second husband.

He used to chew gum

all the time.

So one evening we're sitting

down watching TV,

and he's chewing gum,

and he's smacking

and smacking that gum.

And it's driving me crazy.

So eventually I take the shotgun

off the wall,

and I fire

two warning shots...

into his head.

[dance music playing]

[Angelo]

Literally,

when we went on stage

to the strains

of some ABBA number,

they rushed the stage

and screamed.

It was

like a Beatles concert.

It was really like the Beatles

at Shea Stadium.

It was hilarious.

You couldn't hear the songs

to lip-sync

for the screaming

of the crowd.

And then afterwards,

there were all these cute

19-ish-year-old boys

lined up to kiss us

for photos.

That was sort of a typical night

out in Japan for us.

So we meet again.

[man]

Yes.

Darling, did you

enjoy the show?

[man]

Oh, it was wonderful.

[Rory]

I learned loads from Angelo

about how to pull off

a drag look.

[Angelo]

What I was really doing

was channeling

my own influences

from the drag that I'd come up

with in Atlanta.

The Lady Bunny and RuPaul,

which was really taking

a very old-school,

kind of traditional

glamour-puss drag

and sort of twisting it a bit

and making it fun and fresh

and ironic.

And that was certainly

something Rory took to

like a fish to water,

I would say.

[Rory]

I always think of my life

as these, like, two parts:

before that experience

and after that experience.

That's when the Rory

I am now started.

[camera shutter clicks]

[Niall]

Rory is, as his mother said,

an exotic bird

that landed on the town one day.

[photographer]

Yeah, there.

And Tippi Hedren.

Tippi Hedren.

Very good.

[Niall] I guess

my understanding of Panti

is definitely

like something

from old-school cinema.

A glamorous aunt is always

a good description somehow,

mixed with a bit

of Jessica Rabbit, I guess.

[laughs]

[camera shutter clicks]

you know, you created Panti

visually as much as I did.

Even people who see

Panti regularly,

when they close their eyes

and think of Panti,

what they think of

is the perfect one

that Niall created,

rather than the flesh-and-blood

sweating one

that they might see

at a show.

[Panti]

When I came back to Dublin

in the mid-'90s,

I found a city bursting

with energy and possibilities.

It was creative and fun.

Homosexuality had

only just been decriminalized,

and the gays,

full of a newfound confidence,

were at the forefront of all

of this explosive energy.

And Niall and I became

kind of ringleaders.

We started nightclubs

without a thought

as to whether they were

commercially viable or not.

But we weren't interested

in consumers.

We were interested

in participants.

This was nightclubbing

as performance art.

[dance music playing]

I would never have thought,

"Oh, let's do a fetish club,

-with rubber and"--

-[Niall laughs]

That's not where I was

at the time.

But Niall, you know,

was a more experienced

homosexual, you know,

and so I think at the time,

this was his--

"Yeah, we'll do it."

And I was like, "Okay, then."

[Niall] We

thought,

"Well, we could insert

15 foot of pearls

up Panti's ass.

And I remember

the first time--

Going to Flamingo's Display,

trying to find--

"Would you have, like...?"

You know, and then checking

that they wouldn't come apart.

That was-- I remember

that, actually, being,

"What

if the thread snaps,

and I just

pull a thread out?"

And you're like

a Pez dispenser?

[Panti] We're a traditional

couple in many ways,

but in many ways

a more modern couple,

And so we decided

not just to exchange rings,

we decided

to exchange pearls.

[host]

Exchanged pearls, eh?

Exactly, so Mr. Sphincter

gave me the pearls

before the ceremony,

and I secreted them away

within my person,

and he pulled them from me.

[host] In full view of

the entire congregation?

[Panti]

Yes, that's right, Gerry.

[host]

Hmm. Right, well,

one has to admit,

it's a little different,

isn't it?

[electronic music playing]

[Rory]

The idea of Pantibar was that

it would have elements

of a throwback to an

old-school community gay bar.

Because I'm old enough

to remember,

pre-decriminalization

and all that,

when every gay bar

had frosted windows

or windows with blinds

and, you know,

a door down the side

to get into.

What I liked about Pantibar,

it's on a corner,

it has huge giant plate-glass

windows, it's on full view.

It's a statement in the street,

and that's what a gay bar

should be now.

[woman's voice]

I don't think I can help you.

[lip-syncing dialogue]

You can't help me?

I'm the one

that's helping you.

You want me

to wash my hands

of the whole thing?

Call the sheriff?

Is that what you want?

Well, all right, then.

[sound of engine starting]

[Chris]

There's nothing like

working with somebody

who's thinking faster

than anyone else in the room

to learn how

to do something well.

Because, you know,

when you're on stage

with somebody like that,

you have to--

You have to keep up.

[lip-syncing dialogue]

You'll do as I tell you.

And if I tell you to lie,

you'll do that, too.

I'm never going to suffer

for you again.

Not ever.

Do you understand?

[Rory] Women are still seen

as the weaker sex and all that,

and in some ways,

a woman dressing as a man,

people somehow see that

the woman has,

in a weird way,

sort of empowered herself,

you know, by taking

on this masculine form.

But, you know,

a man dressed as a woman

is seen to have sort of

weakened or demeaned himself.

[dance music playing]

[Mark]

You know, when you're a gay boy

growing up

in the countryside,

it was being called out

as effeminate

that was frightening,

because we were always told

that effeminacy was weakness.

I actually saw great drag queens

and I saw Panti perform.

And, you know, I was--

I don't know what age I was.

But you see that what they do

is they take all the fears

of effeminacy you have,

and they turn it back on you

in a performative sense

as strength.

And you go,

"Yes!"

Yes, that is correct.

Effeminacy is not weakness,

it's actually strength.

And it's the thing inside you

that you have got to celebrate.

And so sissy power.

[laughs]

[applause]

[Panti laughs]

Wow!

Calm down.

In many ways,

I would argue,

that the drag queen

is the ultimate expression

of the theatrical arts.

She is the director,

the scriptwriter,

the makeup artist,

the costume designer,

the producer, and the actress

in the leading role

of the production

of her own life.

You know, when an actor

steps off the stage,

well, he's just a waiter.

But a drag queen

is never off the stage.

She carries the stage

with her,

and it amplifies her

every gesture.

I had worked as an actor

for many years,

and I just started to write

and direct for theater.

And I had made one show.

And I said, you know,

"Panti, will you make a show

with me in the theater?"

And, you know, the abridged

version of what she said

is, "Who the fuck are you?"

But there was something

in that moment

where she thought,

"I'll take a chance."

So in that first show,

we played to 60 people a night

for five shows.

That was 2007.

And then over those years,

I think we made

about four or five shows.

We've toured the shows

to Australia,

we've been to the UK,

America.

[Rory] Philly knows my voice

better than anybody else.

In a way he's like

an objective me.

I'm always worried that,

you know,

he's going to write

the world's greatest musical

or whatever it is,

and he'll be gone for two years,

and I'll just be sitting here

doing nothing.

[laughs]

In 1995, myself and Niall

and our friend Trish Brennan

were approached

by the Dublin AIDS Alliance

and asked if we would produce

the Alternative Miss Ireland

as a fundraiser

for HIV charities.

And we did, and we've been

doing it ever since.

Yes.

Well, these are

detachable cuffs and collars,

which I'm going to make

a decision on

when I'm

all painted up and all.

And this is

for practical purposes.

[laughs]

I'll get to wear it

afterwards,

because that actually

comes with...

you know, a huge,

flowing skirt...

for evening wear.

But sometimes for

Alternative Miss Ireland,

I get these huge, big gowns, and

I never get to wear them again,

because when do I ever

get to wear these things?

Maybe at Pride or something.

This stupid gag

makes me laugh every time.

"Falsies, for that

glamour look."

[laughs]

So stupid.

It's the last one this year,

for no big drama.

But 80 years is a long time

to do anything, isn't it?

We laugh and say that,

"Oh, she's all grown up.

She's a woman now."

Something feels right

about finishing now.

It's good to finish isn't it,

when it's still really strong

and everybody's loving it

and everything.

I have the running order

that you're all

coming out in.

First person out

is going to be

Miss Madonna Lucia.

[cheers and applause]

Two is Alexandra Bhurka.

Three, Big Chief

Random Willy-girl.

[crowd laughs]

Four, Mr. Donkey...

Hi, how are you?

[indistinct chatter]

[Rory] We jokingly call it

gay Christmas,

but it does feel like that.

Lots of our gay family,

you know,

comes to Dublin

for it every year.

My biological family

gathers at Christmas,

but my logical family

gathers for gay Christmas.

There's going to be

a lot of that tonight.

[cheers]

Hi!

How y'all doing?

[audience]

Whoo!

Good evening, hello,

and welcome to this evening

of glamour

rooted in despair.

Willkommen to the HIV

of beauty pageants.

The older gays

got it years ago.

The drug addicts aren't really

sure how they got it,

but they're pretty sure

they had a good time.

The younger gays only stumbled

across it recently

when they should've

known better.

And the hemophiliacs are up

on the balcony thinking,

"What the fuck

are we doing here?"

[laughter]

But the thing that I am going

to miss most

is every year working

with this really incredible

bunch of people.

And so, I really want to say,

on my behalf,

and on behalf of the whole

Alternative Miss Ireland family,

to the rest of the

Alternative Miss Ireland family,

thanks a fucking million.

It's been an honor

and a privilege.

[cheering and applause]

Fuck.

I can't believe I haven't

had a feeling in about 15 years,

and now I'm having one

in fucking public.

And so the time has come

to raise the roof

and raise the curtain

on this,

the heel-clicking,

snake-banishing,

roller-coaster,

donkey-ride known as

the Alternative Miss Ireland

2012!

[techno music plays]

[Rory] The Alternative Miss

Ireland has very much reflected

the growth of Ireland's

gay community.

It started just after

decriminalization,

and as the gay community

and gay scene here grew,

it became more confident and

more aboveground, so to speak.

It's sort of a mirror of

the gay community in some ways.

And I think it's a mirror

of all the good things

about the gay community.

It's actually something

I'm really proud

to have been involved in.

When I got my HIV diagnosis,

it probably seems stupid,

but it was a total shock.

I was not expecting it.

I was acutely aware

of what it all meant,

because I'd been

to AIDS funerals, I knew people.

I, you know, I was of the age

where it was everywhere.

And I do remember going outside,

you know,

and it was

just a gorgeous, lovely day.

And everyone's

wandering around,

and they're going to the shops,

whatever it is they're doing,

like ordinary things.

And I was really...

I was fucking furious,

is what I was.

I was furious that everyone

was just like,

"It's an ordinary day."

And it fucking wasn't

an ordinary day.

[Niall]

I was actually with Rory

when he found out

he was HIV-positive.

I mean, it feels now like it

was just this other world,

because at that time,

that was the end.

There was no point

talking about it.

In some way, you just had

to get on with that.

And I think that's kind of

a Rory trait.

I mean, he will actually

now say, you know, well,

"I made my AIDS-y bed,

and now I have to lie in it."

[cheering]

[Panti]

Good night! Thank you so much!

Being positive for HIV

was worrying, you know.

But I had always faith

that something would turn up.

And I have great faith.

And I just--

We've a Sacred Heart picture

down there that somebody gave us

after we came into the house,

and it's down on the wall

opposite, beside the bed.

And I just said,

"I place all my trust in you.

It's over to you."

And thanks be to God, he's...

Oh, thank God that's over.

[laughs]

[camera shutter clicks]

We'd be nothing

without you.

[both laugh]

[Niall]

Rory's got two things going on.

He's got both the dressing up

as a cartoon, pixilated lady,

and the HIV at the same time.

So, what do you say

on that first date?

You know?

[Rory]

If you say, "Hey, how about

we go on a date next Friday.

Oh, and by the way,

I'm HIV-positive."

The chances are

you won't be going out

on a date next Friday.

It is literally

the only thing, really,

that bothers me about it,

is that horrible thing

about telling somebody.

And, yeah, it's been

a nightmare for my love life.

[laughs]

Yeah, when do you tell them?

And then how are they

going to react?

It's like a constant coming out,

that's what it is.

You're coming out to people.

It has that same feeling of...

you have to tell them

this big thing.

And, of course, there's a bit

of that about the drag, too.

You know, if I meet a guy

who doesn't know,

you know, who I am,

what I do for a living,

sometimes there's just

that feeling about that--

"Oh, God, I have to tell him

I'm a drag queen."

There's a bit of that

with the drag,

but, obviously, the HIV thing

is so much bigger.

And it's just that you have

that sort of that feeling

that you had long ago

about coming out to somebody.

[Declan]

I don't think that there's

any gay person in Ireland

who hasn't experienced

homophobia

in its most vague form.

It's there all the time,

you know.

The fact that we can't even

avail of equal marriage

is homophobic

in its very essence,

because what it's saying is

gay people and straight people

are different.

There are other shades of it.

There is violence.

I have been with Rory,

walking down a street,

when I've been

punched in the face.

I don't speak about it

often because, to me,

I wasn't surprised.

I was surprised

by the event.

I wasn't surprised

I live in a society

where that happens

to gay people,

because I've seen it before,

and before, and before.

The idea of public intimacy

has been robbed

from every homosexual,

I think.

And what it comes down to

in the end

is that you suddenly

might make a decision, yes,

I'm going to hold

my boyfriend's hand in public,

but I'm not doing it because

of the intimacy of the moment.

I'm doing it because I feel like

I'm going to not be afraid.

And it becomes

a statement.

And actually it becomes

the antithesis

of what you wanted it to be

in the first place.

So that is homophobia.

[man]

Tonight, we are delighted

to welcome to the stage

Ireland's most fabulous

drag queen,

and famous activist, Panti.

[applause]

Have any of you ever

been standing

at a pedestrian crossing

when a car goes by,

and in it are a bunch of lads.

And they lean out the window

as they go by and shout,

"Fag!"

And throw a milk carton at you.

Now, it doesn't

really hurt.

I mean, after all,

it's just a wet carton,

and in many ways,

they're right.

I am a fag.

So it doesn't hurt.

But it feels oppressive.

And when it really does hurt,

is afterwards.

Because it's afterwards

that then I wonder and worry

and obsess over

what was it about me?

I mean, what did they

see in me?

What was it

that gave me away?

And I hate myself

for wondering that.

It feels oppressive.

And the next time

that I am standing

at a pedestrian crossing,

I hate myself for it,

but I check myself to see

what is it about me

that gives the gay away.

And I check myself to make sure

that I'm not doing it this time.

[cheers and applause]

[big band music plays]

Every single person

in this audience

has a cousin

or a neighbor or the guy

that you work with

who's a flaming queen.

I mean, you all know one.

And it's very hard to hold

prejudices against people

when you actually

know those people.

And Ireland, because

it's such, you know,

small communities

grouped together,

everybody knows

the local gay.

And, you know,

maybe 20 years ago,

it was okay to,

you know, be really mean

about him.

But nowadays it's

just not okay to be

really mean about him.

If you are going

to argue that gay people

need to be treated

in any way differently

than everybody else,

or should be

in any way less,

or their relationships

are in any way less,

then I'm sorry.

After what I thought was

a pretty innocuous appearance

on a television show,

all sorts of shit

has hit the fan.

I am being threatened

with legal action

by five different people,

and so is RTE.

[news anchor]

RTE's managing director

of television

has said the broadcaster paid

a total of 85,000 euro

in a financial settlement

following a recent edition

of the Saturday Night Show.

[reporter] Following

threats of legal action,

RTE apologized and a financial

settlement was made,

now known to have been

85,000 euro,

to journalist John Waters,

and to members of the

conservative Christian group,

the Iona Institute.

The apology and settlement

became the subject

of heated public debate.

2,000 people took part

in a protest

in Dublin city centre...

[John Lyons]

I thought, you know,

I was living in a society

where this stuff

isn't acceptable anymore.

But yet, when people challenge

people on these issues--

And that's what Rory O'Neill

did on the Saturday Night Show.

He called it what it is.

RTE got it wrong,

and everybody in the public

knows they got it wrong,

and RTE need to come out

and let us know

that they got it wrong.

Otherwise, there will not

be confidence

in our national broadcaster

to mediate any debate

with confidence,

particularly around issues

that effect my life,

and the people who love me,

and love all the other people

who aren't treated properly

in this society.

Thank you.

We must not allow ourselves

to be bullied and silenced,

because this is all it is.

This is bullying.

These are the people

who are always complaining

about being silenced.

When have they ever

been silenced?

-[crowd cheers]

-I don't care

if Panti wears a tutu,

if he wears

a ballet skirt.

He's a fantastically glamorous

human being,

-who also...

-[cheers and applause]

...also happens to be

intellectually brilliant

and morally courageous.

[Rory] It turns out

that all the rest

of the mainstream media

are absolutely terrified

to report on it,

because they are also

terrified

of these stupid

solicitor's letters.

I mean, it turns out

that you can cower

the whole media industry

in this country

by a simple

solicitor's letter.

[Panti]

And for the last three weeks,

I have been lectured

by heterosexual people

about what homophobia is

and about who is allowed

to identify it.

Straight people have lined up--

ministers, senators,

barristers, journalists.

--have lined up to tell me

what homophobia is

and to tell me what I am allowed

to feel oppressed by.

People who have never

experienced homophobia

in their lives,

people who have never

checked themselves

at a pedestrian crossing,

have told me that unless

I am being thrown into prison

or herded onto a cattle truck,

then it is not homophobia.

And that feels

oppressive.

I do, it is true,

believe that almost all of you

are probably homophobes.

But I'm a homophobe.

I mean, it would be incredible

if we weren't.

I mean, to grow up

in a society

that is overwhelmingly

and stiflingly homophobic

and to somehow escape unscathed

would be miraculous.

So I don't hate you

because you're homophobes.

I actually admire you.

I admire you,

because most of you

are only a bit homophobic.

And to be honest,

considering the circumstances,

that is pretty good going.

But I do sometimes

hate myself.

I hate myself,

because I fucking check myself

when standing

at pedestrian crossings.

And sometimes I hate you

for doing that to me.

But not right now.

Right now,

I like you all very much

for giving me a few moments

of your time.

And for that,

I thank you.

[cheers and applause]

What the fuck just happened?

I mean, what the fuck

just happened?

How did this happen?

It's nuts.

Nuts. Nuts.

The story was

becoming bigger

and gathering its own steam

anyway,

but I think from my personal

point of view,

the speech just changed

absolutely everything.

You know, and I don't want

people to get the impression

that being gay means that,

you know,

every day somebody's throwing

stuff at you from a car,

or that you're

constantly unhappy.

It's not that, it's just

that there are these constant

small psychic nicks,

these little psychic cuts.

You know, I wish I could

just not care.

But I can't not care,

because there's this

tiny part of me--

And look at me, I'm dressed

as a giant woman.

And yet,

somehow, even I still harbor

these little

shames about it.

And I don't want to.

We all feel that,

all gay people feel that.

We're constantly forced

to check ourselves,

and not be quite as gay

as we might want to be

in order to feel safe.

[anchor] You're not

a heterophobe, are you?

No. I love heterosexual people.

If there weren't

heterosexual people,

I wouldn't have boys

to fancy.

Okay, Panti Bliss, we'll leave

it there. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Hi.

-How are you?

-I'm good. How are you?

Lovely to see you.

Welcome back.

[Rory]

One of the reasons I insisted

on doing this as Panti

and not as Rory

was just to kind of draw a line

under all of that.

I mean, it was only

a bizarre incident

that caused trouble

the last time.

So it's hardly ever

going to happen again, is it?

[laughs]

He was on his own

the last time,

so we want

to be here for him.

[laughs]

If it all goes belly-up again.

By the power

of big hair.

Is there anything else

you wanted from me?

Last time I was on here,

I was a non-smoker.

And now I'm smoking again.

I have to consider

what I say publicly

much more than I would've

in the past.

And that's actually

a little awkward

when you're a drag queen

entertainer,

because part of what I do

is being able to say things,

and sometimes in

a lighthearted way or whatever.

[cheers and applause]

[big band music plays]

Hi, Panti.

Right.

-Hi, Brendan.

-Hi, Panti.

-Hi, how are you?

-I'm good.

It feels like

it's only been five lawyers

-since I saw you last.

-[laughs]

Yes.

When you and I get together,

it can be a wild,

wild night, Panti, but let's

keep it country tonight.

[indistinct chatter]

But I don't want to start

over-considering

everything I say, or--

You know, because I am

an entertainer,

and I am a drag queen,

and that is part of what I do.

So, yeah, I've had to make

a sort of conscious decision

not to think too hard about that

or to worry too much about that.

If I upset a few people

along the way,

well, that's going

to happen.

Thanks, Brendan.

Thank you, Panti.

Yeah, are you happy

with that?

Yeah, absolutely,

yeah, yeah, all good.

Yeah. Thank you

very much.

Nicely handled,

is what I would say.

[Panti] We're off to the

People of the Year Awards,

which is why I'm dressed

like a Disney villain.

[laughs]

When you even think

of the idea

of the leader of the country

going into a gay bar

for a pint with their LGBT wing

or whatever,

that's a massive change.

Just a couple of years ago,

there's absolutely no way

the leader of this country

would've,

you know, gone into a gay bar

and, you know, hung out with...

And if the new attitude

is that a picture opportunity

in a gay bar

is a way to court votes?

I'm all for it.

Like, people

were complaining,

"He's just looking

for the pink vote."

Thank God he's looking

for the pink vote.

You know? There was a time

when the only vote they wanted

was the bloody Church vote.

Oh, I see

my sisters there.

How are you, lovely?

Good. Hi, hi.

It is, yes.

[indistinct chatter]

Oh, we clean up well.

[laughter]

My fourth daughter.

...gave me away...

[Rory]

I know for my parents

it was upsetting.

Especially

in the early part.

But then I think after

this Noble Call speech

and when it sort of

turned around,

then it became something

totally different,

and I think they became

very proud about it.

They've been

really good to me.

I haven't always brought

easy things to them,

from gayness

to HIV to whatever.

And...

yeah.

It was nice to bring something

nice to them,

even though in the beginning

it wasn't.

But it turned into

something nice for them.

Fuck.

[applause]

For the simple yet beautiful

thing of being herself,

and himself,

this award goes most deservedly

to the wonderful Panti Bliss.

Do come up.

[applause]

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Congratulations. Mwah!

What does this award

mean to you--?

Sorry, can I just say

oh, my God, Stephen Fry!

[cheers and applause]

[Panti]

I would like to remind you

that anybody can get married

in this country.

Except you.

Any asshole

can get married.

Any dumb-fuck soccer hooligan

can get married.

Any gay-basher on George's St.

at 4:00 a.m. can get married.

Any fascist,

any murderer,

any sex offender

can get married.

But you cannot.

[crowd boos]

Because, oh, my God,

let the gays get married,

and the sky will fall down!

You should be angry

about that.

Get angry about that,

be angry about that.

Get your righteous anger

up about that,

because it is

a righteous anger,

and channel that anger

to do something about it.

Get behind the campaign.

Do your bit.

[crowd cheers]

[Una Mullally]

The masses of people

turned around and said,

"We want Panti."

We want Panti to go out

and be an ambassador."

And that was just magical.

I mean, I think apart

from anything else,

what that time did,

apart from start loads

of conversations

with straight people

about homophobia,

was that it gave the gays

a confidence

that all of a sudden they could

talk about these issues

at the dinner table

with their parents,

and all of a sudden, one

of their people, their Panti,

was on the front page

of newspapers

and was a talking head

on international news programs.

You know,

that means a lot.

-[man] What do we want?

-[crowd] Equal rights!

-[man] When do we want it?

-[crowd] Now!

[Rory]

The last step is full access

to equal marriage

and parenting rights.

You know, those are

the last steps,

and they are about

to be tackled now.

We're going to be having

a referendum on gay marriage.

So it's going to be unpleasant,

and this is sort of

the final fight.

-[man] What do we want?

-[crowd] Equal rights!

-[man] When do we want it?

[crowd] Now!

[Una]

May 2015.

Ireland voting

on marriage equality

to basically insert

into our constitution

a line that people can get

married regardless of their sex.

Ireland could

potentially become

the first country

in the world

to pass marriage equality

by a popular vote.

[crowd cheers]

[Tonie]

People have a sense

that we are on the cusp

of significant change

that goes way beyond just simply

giving marriage rights

to gay people.

[man] Bring them all up

again, guys!

[Una]

This could be the domino effect

that the world

has been waiting for

in terms of LGBT rights,

because if Ireland can,

by a popular vote,

bring marriage equality

into law,

then who the hell else

can do it?

[man] It's time

we ended tolerance

for gay, lesbian and bisexual

people in Ireland.

Because tolerance is what we've

had for the last 20 years.

And tolerance is about saying,

"Go and play by yourselves,

but don't bother

the rest of us."

Tolerance is about saying

that, yes,

you can be different,

but don't expect us

to recognize that

you are equal.

And, really, it is time,

in fact, that we in fact ended

that tolerance and replaced it

with something else,

which is citizenship.

[cheering, applause]

[Tonie] Symbolically, it's the

closest the country will give us

to an apology for the hurt

and suffering,

and the alienation

and the marginalization

that forced people,

friends of mine and others,

to live miserable,

shitty lives.

[Rory]

We are two weeks, roughly,

away from the marriage

equality referendum.

It feels like it's been coming

for a long time.

But it is

sort of depressing,

whether it's hanging

on a lamppost on a poster,

or whether it's on your radio

or your TV,

there's just this constant

stream of people

characterizing you

in a particular way.

And when I say "you,"

I mean just all gay people.

[man] You've got no right

to say to anyone else,

you can't do this,

you can't do that.

Oh, well,

thank you very much.

Good, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Every day I hear from somebody,

"Oh, somebody called me a queer

in the street yesterday."

And that wasn't

every day before,

whereas now because it's in the

ether, it's in the atmosphere,

there's this sort of,

you know,

bitterness which I'm finding

wearying and tiring.

And it is bizarre to think

you have to knock

on strangers' doors,

and they come to the door,

and you have to essentially

beg them

to allow you

the same respect and rights

as everybody else.

We are expected to go around

asking people to okay us.

Who else has had

to do that?

And if you had

any questions, or...

You're okay?

Would you like a leaflet?

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

If the referendum doesn't pass,

it'll be crushing,

because the people will have

spoken and they will have said,

"Actually, no.

"That there's a limit

to our acceptance of you.

"There's a limit

to our respect for you.

"And you've reached that limit,

"and, actually,

we're not okay with you,

"and actually...

"yeah, we don't actually think

you're the same as us,

and I don't think you should be

a full and equal citizen."

People are going

to take it that personally.

Because it is that personal.

[news anchor 1]

After a month of campaigning

and 15 hours of voting

yesterday,

the moment has arrived.

Ireland's made history

by putting the issue

of marriage equality

to a public vote...

[news anchor2]

Ballot boxes are being opened

around now as counting of votes

will soon begin...

[news anchor 3]

We'll know in a matter of hours

whether or not

Ireland's made history

to become the first

country in the world

to vote

for marriage equality...

[David]

I agree with Daniel O'Connell,

the Great Liberator.

When some mean-minded people

within

the Protestant Ascendancy

suggested that giving rights

to Roman Catholics

would diminish

their rights,

O'Connell made the point

that human dignity and freedom

are not finite resources,

that the more you parcel them

out, the less you have yourself.

In fact, the more

you parcel them out,

the more enhanced

your liberty and dignity are.

[indistinct chatter]

[man]

It's decades of work

you made possible.

I know,

but I only wish I was 21,

rather than 71.

[both laugh]

[news anchor 1]

Ireland appears on course

to make history

by becoming the first country

to approve same-sex marriage

by popular vote...

[news anchor 2]

But within minutes

of boxes being opened

around the country

at 9:00 this morning,

the tallies told one thing:

Ireland had given equal

marriage a resounding yes.

-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

Congratulations to you

and all your hard work.

It's an amazing day

for all of us.

Everyone's been ready

for so long.

And, like, you caused

the national debate last year

that didn't have to be had

this year because of you.

Oh, that's not really true,

but thank you.

It's totally true.

Oh, hi.

Well done.

Yes!

[laughs]

[man whistles]

[hoots]

Perfect day for...

for a yes.

For a social revolution.

Oh!

Yay!

Thank God I look

fucking amazing.

[both laugh]

[cheering, applause]

[whistling]

Thank you.

Thanks, everyone.

Thank you so much.

[cheering, applause]

[crowd]

Panti! Panti! Panti! Panti!

[Panti] I think the future

for, like, young LGBT people

is incredible now

in this country.

They'll be growing up

in a country which absolutely,

on every level,

treats its LGBT citizens

exactly the same

as everybody else.

They'll be growing up

on a level playing field,

and they've never

had that before.

We've never

had that before.

And this has

actually not been

a three-month or four-month

campaign.

It's been a 40-year campaign,

and is the absolute epitome

of a grassroots campaign.

It started 30,

40 years ago

when a tiny number

of really brave men and women

stood up and said they had

nothing to be ashamed of.

-[crowd cheers]

-And 40 years later,

the country agrees: we have

nothing to be ashamed of.

We're the same

as everybody else.

-What a day.

-Congratulations.

[cheers and applause]

[crowd cheers]

Panti!

Whoo!

[crowd]

Panti! Panti! Panti! Panti!

Panti! Panti!

Panti! Panti!

Oh!

Thank you so much.

Not at all,

thank you so much.

Thank you so-- Look at this.

This is what I like to see.

More makeup

than I'm wearing.

We've waited

39 years for this,

my partner and I.

Congratulations.

Enjoy your married life.

-Is this your partner?

-Yeah.

How long have

you been together?

39 years.

40 years

next year.

40 years?

You look amazing on it.

We saw a few things

in our time.

-Yeah, I'm sure you did.

-Thank you.

You lesbians and your good skin.

It's all the hill-walking.

Hi. Ah, chickens--

Oh!

Look at you,

making the effort today.

Oh, hi, Andrew.

How are you today?

Look at you.

You look fabulous.

[laughs]

Aodhán, oh, my God,

thank you so much.

You played a blinder.

And I met your lovely wife

in Australia, somewhere.

I know, yeah, she told me.

Well done.

-No, thank you.

-Brilliant, okay?

Let's have a picture

with Aodhán.

[laughs]

Get Joan in here.

Joan! Come on over, Joan!

[laughs]

-Hi!

-Hi. Lovely to meet you, Joan.

Get in there.

At last I met someone

taller than me.

How do you feel

about the win?

-The victory?

-What?

How do you feel about the

victory for the Yes campaign?

It feels incredible today.

It couldn't feel any better.

It's thrilling.

Have you

ever felt happier?

I have, yeah, but--

Yeah, a few times.

[all laugh]

Will you be looking

for a husband tonight?

-I found one.

-[laughs]

But it's not the husband

I'm looking for,

it's a lesbian lover.

[all laugh]

Because now

we can go any way,

you know?

It's all in the mix.

-Will you be partying all night?

-Of course I will.

I think this is

one day of the year

where I'm allowed.

What's happening

at Pantibar tonight?

We'll just be having

a fun time and

partying hard.

Look at this. John Lyons.

-Hey, Panti.

-Oh!

What's your message

to the people that voted No?

That I think-- I honestly

believe that in time,

they'll understand

that their fears were,

you know, unfounded,

and that they'll look back

eventually and think,

actually, yes,

today is a good day.

And...yeah.

Do you forgive people

for voting No?

I don't have

to forgive them.

They voted No out

of their own concerns,

out of their own

honestly-held concerns.

But I think

that those concerns

were unfounded,

and I hope that, in time,

they'll come

to agree with me on that.

[crowd cheering]

Can I just say,

before the official result

comes out,

I'd like to say thank you

to everybody for your hard work.

It's been amazing!

-[crowd cheers]

-It's been amazing!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! Mwah!

[crowd]

Panti! Panti! Panti! Panti!

[woman on TV] Votes in favor

of the proposal: 1,201,607.

[cheers]

[woman on TV continues

indistinctly]

Nice job.

[laughs]

Majority of votes

in favor of the proposal:

467,370.

[cheers]

[somber music playing]

[Rory]

The sky didn't fall in.

Everyone's okay.

And that was

an amazing day.

[car horns honk]

If No had won,

there would have been

no dancing in the streets.

There would have been

no outpourings of joy and love

and hugging and tears

and kissing and cheering.

You know, because nothing

would have changed.

It would just have been

exactly the same

as it had been

the day before.

[siren blaring]

Because the No argument

was an intellectual argument.

It wasn't about changing lives

for the better or anything.

It was just

all intellectual arguments

about what kind of society

they wanted to see

reflected in the dry piece

of paper of the constitution.

For us, it was about

our lives.

And that's why we won.

Because people

recognized that.

Lives trump dry, intellectual

arguments every time.

[clock chiming]

You could easily have thought

during the campaign

that this was all just about

changing a law or whatever.

But, actually,

the last few days,

it's four days

after the result or something,

every time I walk

through town,

I've seen gay couples

holding hands

or, you know, canoodling outside

a restaurant

just like everybody else would.

And I wasn't expecting that,

and I don't know how long

it'll last.

But at the moment,

there is this feeling

that it really has

all changed.

And, you know,

gay people now,

certainly in Dublin

at the moment,

feel different.

And they are expressing

that they feel different

by just acting

like everybody else.

My relationship with Ballinrobe

has always been complicated.

You know, that sense

of not quite fitting in

became more pronounced

over the years.

The distance became greater

between me and the town.

[sighs]

Okay, I'm not going to

stand up in the marquee

in Ballinrobe

with Mrs. Feerick

on a plastic chair

in the front row,

and do stories

about tranny-chasers

and the usual stuff.

I'm not.

[Philly] The show should,

essentially, only be

for your mother.

You're arriving in your mother's

living room, essentially,

and doing a show

for all of her friends.

To hit them with a million

AIDS jokes is a bit..

I think, yeah.

Like, I just keep

coming back to...

you know, you're just doing

the show for your mother.

Okay. So my mother

wouldn't want it to be

all AIDS jokes.

[both laugh]

And also "Pressures

of Being Panti"

goes into, like,

anal fissures.

[laughs]

[chuckles]

I'm not telling

that story.

No.

[Philly] I just feel

like it's going to feel

like a big house party.

-Yeah.

-And they're going to want,

you know, the kind

of entertainment that

rural Ireland is used to,

is people going around

to the tables and talking.

I think that, like...

Well, you've got that.

That's part of your thing.

-Yeah.

-So...

[Rory]

No, I'm not doing--

Yes, the show is going

to be massaged

-for a local audience.

-It's for 80-year-olds.

For 80-year-olds.

[laughs]

I'm putting in a joke

about "Cock" Jennings.

[all laugh]

And he's leaving town

immediately afterwards.

I would think everybody

is looking forward

to tonight's performance.

I've met, even,

some this morning,

and they're all wishing us

good luck,

and they'll be down,

and all this kind of stuff.

And the people

in the street especially,

they're very proud

in Abbey Street,

and they're proud of Rory,

I think.

[laughs]

They're looking forward

to this, anyway.

We're all a bit nervous,

and I think he is himself.

Look how old I am.

[Panti] I am sitting

in my parents' old bedroom.

When I was a kid,

this was my parents' room.

And my mother

would get ready here.

And you'd see all the perfume,

and she'd be sitting here,

and I'd be watching her.

And now, I'm sitting at this

dressing table in this bedroom,

dressing up

as a giant cartoon woman.

I am the gayest thing

in the world.

I mean, I am the gayest thing

in the world.

And the whole reason

I felt uncomfortable,

even before I knew

it was the reason,

but it was,

because I was the gay kid.

And now, essentially,

my gayness is being celebrated

in the town that I felt weird

being the gay in.

Like, who could have

imagined that?

That the very thing

that made me feel weird

and uncomfortable

and like there wasn't

a place for me here,

is the very thing

that the whole town

is now about to celebrate

in a fucking marquee

that they've put up

in the car park

of the local tire business.

It's nuts.

Who'd have thought we'd all be

sitting around the kitchen

in Ballinrobe,

County Mayo,

two of us dressed

like giant women?

Yeah, they're not used

to kind of, uh...

queens in Ballinrobe.

[laughter]

Unless you have been

that gay boy in a small town,

I don't think you can understand

what it is.

[somber music playing]

[sighs]

[laughs]

It's kind of "awesome,"

isn't it?

There you are.

[Panti] At least we don't

have far to go.

[all laugh]

[announcer]

And now, please give it up

for your national treasure.

Here's Panti!

[cheering, applause]

[crowd cheers]

Oh, my God.

Oh!

[laughs]

Now, I'm going to be

really honest with you

before we get started.

I'm crapping it.

[laughter]

[Rory]

It's true to say that,

while I breathed life

into Panti,

she breathed more life

into me.

It was not a good week.

It was difficult

and distressing and weird,

and upsetting...like sex

with Michael Flatley.

[laughter]

I cannot believe

I'm saying this stuff

to a crowd from Ballinrobe.

[crowd cheers]

[Rory] She's colored me.

She's made me

a better person.

Sure, she's brought me

some trouble

and a few heartaches

along the way,

but all of that

pales in comparison

to what she's given me.

Friends, opportunities,

courage, adventures, fun.

And, boy, it's been fun.

And anyway, homophobe

is not the worst thing

that you can call someone.

"Cock Jennings" is.

[laughter]

And I'd like to apologize

to Cock.

For the first time in my life,

I'd like to apologize to Cock.

[Rory]

I've entertained in London,

Paris, New York, Melbourne,

and I have horrified in

Limerick, Norwich, and Hobart.

But I'm still here.

Making a show of myself.

Thank you all so much

for coming.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you so much.

Remember, this isn't

a rehearsal, kids.

There is no support act.

You are the main event.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you.

[Jennifer Holliday]

♪ You're the best man ♪

♪ I've ever known ♪

♪ There's no way

I can ever ever go ♪

♪ No no no no way ♪

♪ No no no no way

I'm living without you ♪

♪ Oh I'm not living

Without you ♪

♪ Not living without you ♪

♪ I don't want to be free ♪

♪ I'm staying ♪

♪ I'm staying ♪

♪ And you and you

And you ♪

♪ You're gonna love me ♪

♪ Oh hey ♪

♪ You're gonna love me ♪

♪ Yes you are ♪

♪ You will love me

You will love me ♪

♪ Love me ♪

♪ Love me love me ♪

♪ Love me ♪

♪ You're gonna love ♪

♪ Me ♪

[soft music playing]