Attitude Magazine have honoured Ireland’s own Panti Bliss, aka Rory O’Neill, with the Editor’s Special Award at the Attitude Awards 2014.
Ireland’s most famous drag queen won the award for her now famous Noble Call speech at the Abbey Theatre, which has now been viewed over 650,000 times on YouTube.
The speech came after RTÉ paid out a reported €85,000 in damages to journalist John Waters and members of the Iona Institute after O’Neill accused them of being homophobic while appearing on the Saturday Night Show.
Panti attended the London award ceremony last night, and was rubbing shoulders with the likes of Graham Norton, Stephen Fry and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst. She kept Twitter followers updated regularly throughout the event.
So I just got an Attitude Award which was lovely pic.twitter.com/0PqfjmPmXf
— Panti Bliss (@PantiBliss) October 13, 2014
My Austrian dinner companion has stolen my Panti’s Pale Ale phone cover. pic.twitter.com/SnMrZ0wowk — Panti Bliss (@PantiBliss) October 13, 2014
Mad about me pic.twitter.com/p95nV19Ucb
— Panti Bliss (@PantiBliss) October 13, 2014
Small Town Boys(ish) with so lovely So @grahnort pic.twitter.com/ggKBnOLrkx — Panti Bliss (@PantiBliss) October 14, 2014
Upon accepting the award, Panti’s acceptance speech warranted not one, but two standing ovations from the famous crowd.
Not one but TWO standing ovations for @PantiBliss acceptance speech. Very proud #attitudeawards14 @AttitudeMag pic.twitter.com/WaR9fTTSMB
— Darren Kennedy (@Darrenken) October 13, 2014
See the FULL LIST OF WINNERS.
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