Update The Minister’s office confirmed that she will be viewing the Parade today and will meet a group of Irish American LGBT’s on Monday in the Consulate. The people she is meeting are from the St. Pat’s for All parade which takes place in Queens. Those who protest the Manhattan Parade exclusion from Irish Queers have not […]
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A little bit of gay history. In 1977 Dublin City Council withdrew the funding from Project Arts Centre when it staged work by Gay Sweatshop. Peter Sheridan remembers In conjunction with the Irish Gay Rights Movement, we brought the London-based Gay Sweatshop and their acclaimed production of Madame X. Some members of Dublin Corporation became […]
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This weekend the Church of Ireland are holding a Bishop’s conference in Cavan on homosexuality for 400 synod members. Synod members are laity and clergy who make up the ruling body of the church. Entitled ‘Human Sexuality in the context of Christian Belief‘ one would be forgiven that all elements of human sexuality might be […]
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For day that is in it (Bah Humbug) GLEN have released some statistics on Civil Partnership in Ireland. The figures, provided by the General Registrars Office show that: · 536 couples entered civil partnership in Ireland in the nine months from April 5th 2011, when civil partnership first became available · the 1072 people entering […]
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ILGA Europe (International Lesbian and Gay Association) are running a campaign aimed at members of the European Parliament to seek their commitment on LGBT rights. So far seven Irish MEP’s have signed the 10 point pledge on LGBT rights issues. So Liam Aylward, Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell (remember him?), Pat (The Cope) Gallagher, Brian Crowley, […]
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