Thanks to the little birdies who let me know that the Directors of Dublin Pride have commenced a review of the Pride Festival 2010. The festival appeared to have the best profile ever with plenty of mainstream media coverage and a great turn out at many events including 22,000 marching during the Pride Parade. I’ve […]
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This weekend all thoughts turn to the North West and it’s annual Pride celebration. Now in it’s fifth year the friendliest, most inclusive pride celebration in Ireland is always seeking new ways of celebrating and marking diversity and reaching out to local communities both lgbt and the ‘straight and not narrow’. Events will take place […]
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10,000 people from all over the world are expected to converge on Cologne for the Gay Games which begin tomorrow. The Irish Ambassador to Germany is hosting a reception for the Irish participants tomorrow afternoon. Minister for Arts and Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin TD. has written to Team Ireland giving her good wishes and […]
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The first national research programme documenting the experiences of LGBT people aged 55 and older has been launched recently and reserachers are seeking participants for research into the lives and concerns of Older LGBT’s. This is the area I spent 3 years researching for the never completed PhD and I think the initiative will contribute […]
A statement from Labour LGBT was issued this morning. At a meeting last night we decided to formally initiate the party complaints procedure against Cllr Colm Keaveny. We believe his recent comments in the Sunday Tribune are contrary to party policy and inconsistent with the principles and objects we stand for. The group also issued […]
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