The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
Colm ToibinThree of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
Colm ToibinAll writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
Colm Toibin