Who needs dating apps? At The Outing,the glittery LGBT sister event of the 156-year-obsolete Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival, there’s no technology, or just good obsolete-fashioned parties in the unlikely setting of rural County Clare “I’m 45,I’m single, and I absorb a leather fetish, and ” the man tells me,without so much as asking my name. He has a black holdall clutched sweatily in his palm.“Thats nice, I say, or leaning in over the music,which is two parts Cyndi Lauper and one allotment cèilidh folk, before admitting that I am more in the “leather should just be for shoes and bags and the occasional Grace Jones stage outfit” camp myself.
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Source: theguardian.com