President Mary McAleese has turned down an invitation to act as grand marshall to the New York St. Patricks Day Parade. For nearly twenty years the organisers, the Anicent Order of Hibernians, have blocked the participation of lesbians and gay men in the parade and it seems that this is the reason for the President’s […]
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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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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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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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