LGBT organisations everywhere should (hopefully) be further distancing themselves from LGBT Noise’s latest same-sex marriage campaign which was reported in today’s (Friday, April 22, 2011) Irish Examiner. The campaign is currently attracting the interest of those seeking to use the Blasphemy law of Ireland for the first time. Ever the attention seeking organisation LGBT Noise has [...]
01 Apr, 2011
Posted by: Steve In: LGBT Rights
BelongTo launched their Stand Up! campaign last night in the Woodquay Venue, Dublin. Guest speaker was Dominic Hannagin TD, first openly gay deputy. Blathnaid ni Chofaigh (ur one from Echo Island) hosted the event. Very emotive video – if all goes well RTE may carry it soon. Share it, tweet it, facebook it – get [...]
The plans to move the Dublin LGBTQ Pride festival ‘Pride in the Park’ event to Merrion Square South, West and East and the grounds of the park itself have taken a serious blow today. An application is due next week to Dublin City Council (DCC) but it is alleged that Mr. Gerry Barry, the DCC [...]
24 Aug, 2010
Posted by: Steve In: Blog|LGBT Rights
The recent march for marriage equality has left several people within the media and politics a tad bemused. I mean if you are going to send a message to the hegemonic powers-that-be August 22nd is the time to do it, isn’t it? Of course it is and the ever-professional, influential and powerful lobby group LGBT [...]
As many of you would know I have very little real desire to go marching at these Pride events, but in fairness many of my friends feel the need/compulsion/obligation to do so. Some believe Pride is an expression of the gay culture that exists (warts and all, so to speak) in Ireland today and that [...]
