Received in the inbox today – if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and living in Ireland please read on and click on the link below and complete the survey. www.LGBTlives.ie GLEN in collaboration with BeLonG To Youth Project have commissioned researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin to conduct the first significant [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Queer'
Major new survey on LGBT Mental Health and Wellbeing Underway
November 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Policy
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Deputy Cuffe – Tell us how you have not copped out?
November 1st, 2007 · 17 Comments · Ciaran Cuffe, Cop Out, Gay, gayvote.ie, Irish Politics, KAL Case, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
I wonder how the lesbian and gay members of the Green Party are feeling this morning – there are quite a few of them – some of very long standing, others quite new. I know how many Green Party voters are feeling – their ire is all through lesbian and gay message boards and filling [...]
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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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All Human life is there…
September 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Religion, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes
Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the [...]
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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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The GayVote.ie
April 24th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogging, gayvote.ie, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, KAL Case, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
Lots of coverage for this new initiative launched yesterday outside Leinster House. I note that the site has a blog and a heavy concentration on civil union issues and ‘how your politician voted’ in the recent private members debate on the Labour Party’s Civil Union Bill. I’ll give lots of link love to any reader [...]
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The Closets are Still Closed
March 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy
Or maybe they did not understand the question? Perhaps they were living apart the night the census took place… Nevertheless maybe there should be a tribunal into the missing same sex couples in Ireland. The number of same sex cohabiting couples recorded in the 2006 census was 2,090 compared with 1,300 in 2002. Two thirds [...]
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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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