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Ciaran ‘Cop Out’ Cuffe T.D.

October 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Ciaran Cuffe, Cop Out, Equality, Gay, Homophobia, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, KAL Case, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships

Updates to this post can be found here and here Ciaran Cuffe – is this what doing a deal with the devil is all about? Today on Lunchtime on Newstalk you were laying out the various reasons why it might not be the right time to vote in favour of redebating the Labour Party’s Civil […]

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Sean Power – Minister for State for Equality

June 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Equality, Gay, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Policy

We have a new Minister for State with Responsibility for Equality. Sean Power’s name rang a bell. I remember his speech during decriminalistion. Then a FF backbencher he was one of the very few backbench TD’s to make a speech during the debate – and I remember those of us watching it being very struck […]

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A tale of two cities

March 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Gay, Homophobia, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

On Saturday in Dublin, Christine Quinn, the Speaker of New York City Council, (and out lesbian) marched in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade with her father and her partner. On Saturday in New York, the group Irish Queers protested for the 16th year of the exclusion of Irish lesbians and gay men from the St. […]

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Tom Kitt in Warsaw not doing human rights….

March 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Gay, Homophobia, Poland, Queer, Uncategorized

One of the coalition parties in Poland plans legislation to sack gay teachers and ban groups entering schools engaging in the discussion of homosexuality (that’d be the gay groups being banned of course). The League of Polish Families (yes it is the name of a political party) plans the IV Polish Republic based on morality, […]

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Co Sie Gapisz Lesbo?!

March 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Gay, Homophobia, Lesbian, LGBT, Poland, Queer

What you staring at, dyke?! ‘The campaigns teaser posters “What are you staring at, faggot!?” and “What are you staring at, dyke!?” are used as a symbolic summary of all the wide-spread forms of homophobia in Poland today – regular hate-speech from the leading politicians, growing intolerance and exclusion by the other groups of society, […]

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