Tara Whelan:

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Title

Tara Whelan:

Subject

Stories and memories of LGBT life in Cork City and County.

Description

Tara discusses her life as a bisexual woman in Ireland.

Date

8 July 2015

Identifier

CFP_SR00555_whelan_2015

Coverage

Cork, Ireland,

Source

Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive

Language

English

Type

Sound

Format

1 .wav File

Interviewee

Duration

43min 18sec

Location

The Lough, Cork.

Original Format

. wav

Bit Rate/Frequency

24bit / 48kHz

Transcription

SD And did that classification then of bisexual, lesbian, did that bring its own set of fears with it or was it more like a relief?

TW I suppose, when I put bisexual onto myself there would have been more fears, there was an even more different than the ones that are different so now there is the heterosexual people who would consider the homosexual different and then you throw bisexual into the mix now your just messing with it altogether but as I got older it makes me that little bit more unique, and as I always say there is more out there for me then there is for most people because there is more to choose from you know and when people ask me are you in the mood then for a woman one day and a man the next day, it’s nothing like that at all, you know its always, I’ll always go for the person themselves and whether they have a penis or a vagina is just, it just is, it doesn’t really matter that much, so, I mean, yeah I guess I just feel like it makes me that bit more unique.

Collection

Citation

Cork Folklore Project, “Tara Whelan:,” accessed April 19, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/96.