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We're here, organised, and not going anywhere': thousands participate in Dublin Pride
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (558+ words) Draped in rainbow flags and dancing to music blasting from speakers, dozens of members of the LGBTQ+ community gathered outside Outhouse community centre on Capel Street on Saturday morning before setting off for Dublin's annual Pride parade. "Queer people are…...
The Irish Times view on the Pride Festival: the long road to equality
1+ day, 11+ min ago (445+ words) The Irish Times The Irish Times view on the Pride Festival: the long road to equality This weekend's events are a reminder of the road travelled and work still to be done In 1974, the year of the first Gay Pride…...
Pride is upon us: Check out these parades and events around the country
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (633+ words) Pride season is officially upon us with marches, family picnics, club nights and more, running in locations all around the country this month and late into the summer. While some counties have been celebrating since late May, here is a…...
Nearly as bad as X: Meta must be challenged for amplifying homophobic comments, D'il hears
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (666+ words) Social media giant Meta must be challenged for failing to stop the amplification of homophobic and racist posts on its social networking site Facebook, the D'il has been told. Fianna F'il TD Malcolm Byrne expressed "deep concern" about Facebook, which…...
Gear'id Farrelly: "I didn't really come out of the closet. My parents went in to get me'
3+ week, 1+ day ago (977+ words) I grew up in Glasnevin and I went to school in Finglas. I wasn't funny in class. I was kind of funny with my friends, but I have always been very much the listener. I come from a family of…...
I couldn't get an Irish passport. I felt I had this identity taken away' " The Irish Times
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1605+ words) Kirsty Lang always thought she was Irish. The journalist, broadcaster and presenter of BBC Radio 4s Round Britain Quiz grew up believing she had inherited the personality, temperament and red hair of her Irish grandmother. They were the only two redheads…...
Cannes First Look review: Jim Queen " This gay-influencer animated comedy is gleefully smutty
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (159+ words) The Irish Times This gleefully smutty animated comedy from Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen imagines a preening Parisian gay influencer infected with heterosis, a virus that slowly turns its victims from tight-panted gym queens to dadbods who understand the offside…...
Belfastmen - An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation: Defiance, tenderness and interrupted clandestine encounters " The Irish Times
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) Overall, arrests for "gross indecency" or buggery remained low until the late 1950s. There were "whisper networks", hotels where blind eyes were turned and sometimes class and religious boundaries were traversed: "In August 1925, a middle-class Presbyterian in his mid forties was…...
Rome sees German Catholics" new blessing regime as a curse
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (834+ words) What do you call a Catholic wedding that's not a wedding? In Germany, at least, you call it a "blessing ceremony for loving couples. That's the term devised by bishops and lay Catholics in new guidelines allowing priests bless all…...
Ahern remarks give voice to a fear many who grew up visibly different in Ireland live with
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (404+ words) Sir, " As the Dublin-born son of an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father, I found Bertie Ahern's remarks about "the Africans" (May 13th) both depressing and revealing. Many of us who grew up visibly different in Ireland carry a quiet, lingering…...