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It was somewhere on the M1 motorway, driving from Dublin, Ireland, to Belfast, that I first considered the differences between gay travel and queer travel. I was in the back of the coach, AirPods in, listening to the entire discography of my favorite Irish songwriter, CMAT , and gazing wistfully out the window. I'd mentally prepared for a scenic drive (yes, I've seen "Leap Year"), but the only bits of countryside I could make out came in odd blips — a cottage here, a hill of emerald there. Otherwise, we were penned in by a tall thicket stretching along either side, an illegible blur of bushes and branches.

When we entered Northern Ireland — so mundane an affair that I didn't even notice we'd cross

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