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Entries Tagged as 'Homophobia'

Garda Representatives respond to Sunday Independent’s homophobia

August 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Equality, Homophobia

Many thanks to Ian for the tip on this letter in yesterday’s Sunday Independent from the General Secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. Last weeks article you will remember was a load of rubbish from Jim Cusack. The letter is excellent in both it’s rebuttal and also in naming the impact of […]

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Members of the Garda Siochána are gay – earth still turns!

August 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · Homophobia, Irish Media

It’s a Sunday in August and the Sindo is rolling out it’s usual bigoted claptrap trying to be salacious drivel! Jim Cusack – the security correspondent with the Irish Independent/Sunday Independent might be seen to start the engine of a witchhunt against gay Gardai in this mornings lead story on the numbers of gay Gardai […]

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Jon Stewart on ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’

July 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Equality, Homophobia

If you are wondering who Elaine Donnelly is, aka the fount of all ‘wisdom’ on gays in the army, she works for the Center for Military Readiness – or to put it simply she spends her time campaigning against women and gays in the army!

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Wexford FF politics and Civil Partnership

July 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · David Quinn, Homophobia, Irish Politics, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

Senator Jim Walsh has been busy this week putting forward a motion to his parliamentary party concerning the proposed Civil Partnership legislation going too far. He has been busy saying he wasn’t being homophobic and saying his party colleagues who supported the motion (25 of them) weren’t homophobic. It’s clear from the silence that not […]

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The most famous Irish Man in Poland*

March 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Brendan Fay, Homophobia, LGBT, Poland, Same Sex Partnerships

Did you ever think you’d see the day?? Only a week ago Brendan Fay and his partner Tom Moulton were making headlines as Polish president Lech Kaczynski used footage of their wedding ceremony in Canada to illustrate why the Lisbon treaty was not such a good thing. The footage and display of the couple’s Canadian […]

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