QUEEN OF IRELAND

Pandora "Panti" Bliss is many things: part glamorous aunt, part Jessica Rabbit, she’s a wittily incisive performer with charisma to burn who is regarded as one of the best drag queens in the world. Created by Rory O’Neill, Panti is also an accidental activist and in her own words, "a court jester, whose role is to say the unsayable."

Over the last few years Rory has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and since the recent scandal around "Pantigate", his fight for equality and against homophobia has become recognised across the world.