I’ve been told gays should be hung and I’m going to hell...

Dillon says some men take own lives after forced into marriage

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marry her… but I knew if I had gone ahead with this not only would I have ruined my life but I would have also ruined her life.

“Thank God I didn’t because if I had done I don’t think I would be here today, I couldn’t take living a lie.

“It is not talked about at all in the Traveller community. A lot of young men would be texting me, saying they’re never going to be able to come out.

“They say they can’t come out because they’re going to be disowned, they’re going to be beaten.

“Some parents would rather see their children in a hospital bed being fed through a tube than to have them tell them they are gay.

“I knew one man who tried to take his own life and was in hospital for two weeks on a life support machine… all because he was gay and couldn’t tell his family. Now he’s married and has