Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the […]
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We have a new Minister for State with Responsibility for Equality. Sean Power’s name rang a bell. I remember his speech during decriminalistion. Then a FF backbencher he was one of the very few backbench TD’s to make a speech during the debate – and I remember those of us watching it being very struck […]
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I often read the New York Times wedding announcements, sometimes they have lesbian and gay weddings announced, increasingly so since same sex marriage became legal in Canada. This weekend there was an announcement from a couple who have been together 42 years and who got married last Tuesday in Canada. Whilst their marriage has little […]
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Manual beseeches his lady lesbian readers to go to Madrid and report back to him on the lesbian festival taking place there. Much as I would love to be in Madrid I am very happy next weekend to be enjoying the company of many lesbians in Cork for the Cork Women’s Weekend. This fine event […]
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On Saturday in Dublin, Christine Quinn, the Speaker of New York City Council, (and out lesbian) marched in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade with her father and her partner. On Saturday in New York, the group Irish Queers protested for the 16th year of the exclusion of Irish lesbians and gay men from the St. […]
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