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Entries Tagged as 'LGBT'

Outing, Republicans and internalised homophobia

November 9th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

I wasn’t going to write this post so soon but as I mentioned yesterday there seems to be a ‘problem’ with lots of closeted gay people at the upper echelons of the Republican Party. I say ‘problem’ because several groupings see it as a problem. Firstly we have the evangelicals who are reeling at the […]

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Election Round up

November 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, LGBT, Queer

Wrap up of the US Midterm elections So CNN got a load of bloggers in a cafe, from the left and the right and broadcast snippets from there during it’s election night coverage. I think the jury is out on whether the bloggers enjoyed it or indeed got any blogging done, and you know the […]

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Wednesday’s Links are full of….

November 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Media

Councillor Dominic Hannigan is now adding video blogging to his blog. Oh the trendsetter!! Robert and Maryam Scoble from Podtech presented at the Blog Business Summit about 10 ways to a better blog. Pdf of the slides can be found here – complete with cartoons by Hugh. (there are 15 ways according to the Scobles […]

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Inclinations…

October 30th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Religion

Roman Catholic Bishops in the USA will debte a new document on Pastoral Guidelines for ‘Ministry to Persons with Homosexual Inclination’ when they meet next month. Much of it is the usual ‘love the sinner hate the sin’ type of stuff but there are new challenges for them to face including a policy affirming the […]

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She’s Gay and We’re Cool with That

October 25th, 2006 · 8 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

The Minister for State Sile De Valera launched a campagin against homophobic bullying today. Read more about it at BelongTo’s Website. Well done to them and the Equality Authority for a really important campaign and kudos to the Minister also for launching it. Her speech is available here. In the case of homophobic bullying, young […]

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