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As an activist for LGBT rights, Fottrell advocated for marriage equality in a series of columns for Irish newspapers in the run-up to the Irish civil partnership and marriage equality campaigns. In 2007, he wrote, "Gay marriage doesn't damage children. But not allowing it does. It fosters a culture
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of prejudice, and infects the aspirations of gay children. It's not healthy for our gay children to see a future in which their role in society is restricted." Fottrell also wrote about homophobia in rural
Ireland and the struggles of gay people to live openly and free of prejudice in small towns.
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Since moving to New York, he has reported on the experiences of Irish emigrants and reflected, in particular, on how that relates to growing up gay in
Catholic Ireland: "It's tempting to romanticize the past. Migrant memories, especially post-Celtic Tiger, can be selective and stylized like a TV
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commercial." He said generations of people left
Ireland for cultural reasons as well as economic ones. "Leaving everything behind is not easy," he wrote, "but I needed to break new ground, and it would be an adventure: Where else to go but the land of Harvey Milk and money."
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and interviewed Irish diaspora who returned to
Ireland for the vote. After Ireland became the first country in the world to put this issue to a public vote, Fottrell wrote, "On May 22, Ireland sent a message to the world: If we can do it, you can too."
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