Just a few words
Last week at the same time as the Civil Partnership Bill began it’s committee stage, GLEN were holding a launch of their Guide on LGB Diversity in the Workplace. The project was developed in...
View ArticleHenhouse links
The Dáil is on holiers and I am not. Excuse the lightness on the blogging as the day job keeps me occupied and tired. However you could peruse the programme for Stranger than Fiction – this is a...
View ArticleVisible Lives Study – LGBT 55+
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...
View ArticleWhat will be in the Manifestos?
No doubt there is a lot of fevered scribbling going on amongst political parties at the moment with regards to writing their manifestos to be launched during General Election 2011. After the election...
View ArticleDublin LGBTQ Pride heading for Merrion Square?
Dublin LGBTQ Pride today advertised for a licence to hold an event in Merrion Square at the end of this years Pride March. Merrion Square Park – perfect location for hanging out in comfortable...
View ArticleTánaiste Gilmore’s trip to New York
Update: Picture from Merrionstreet.ie of Tanaiste Gilmore meeting emigrant rights groups and Irish gay rights groups. Gilmore met with some LGBT and Emigrant groups in the Irish Consulate last night...
View ArticleMore on that Gilmore meeting with Irish American LGBT ‘reps’
A response to a written question from Sean Kenny on Eamon Gilmore’s trip to New York and Washington elicted the following information on that meeting with lesbian and gay ‘representatives‘. I had a...
View ArticleAnother identity altogether
Voices from outside the Irish America LGBT community have joined in criticism of the exclusion of lgbts from the New York St. Patricks Day parade which took place yesterday. (Post from Joe My God...
View ArticleDirecting astute noises
Yesterday LGBT Noise held a protest outside the opening of the International Eucharistic Congress in the RDS. Like it was going to change anything? The real question that might be asked is if it was a...
View ArticleLargest ever EU survey reports on LGBT discrimination
Results from Europe’s biggest ever survey on LGBT discrimination and hate crime are released today. Over 93,000 people responded to the EU LGBT survey conducted by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency....
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