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And Labour’s fall.

Scenes from the 30th Dublin Pride, including raining on Labour’s parade.

More to follow.

Meanwhile, in St Petersberg

All the participants in today’s St Petersburg gay pride parade have been arrested and are being detained in police vans. Nikolai Alekseev, one of Russia’s most prominent LGBT activists who was arrested last month for organizing a gay rights march, confirmed with GSN that fellow activists and pro-gay supporters are now in police custody.

Alekseev, who was not arrested since he was standing outside the fenced area of St Petersburg pride, managed to tell GSN that participants were detained for breaching Russia’s ‘gay propaganda’ bill that passed Russia’s upper house in parliament 10 days ago.

 

All participants in St Petersburg gay pride arrested for marching (Gay Star News)

Pics Emily (pic 1: Fionn Kidney pic 3: Charlie Flanagan, pic 5  Eoin Neylon, pic 6 @Lorcliff) (Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

 

 

Iowa Gay MarriageThis evening.

J Carl White writes:

Hi guys, I’m surprised you haven’t posted anything about the repeal of DOMA [Defence of Marriage Act] in the United States. This is huge news! Same sex people who have married can now receive federal benefits that were previously denied them. Equality at last! I am a Dubliner who has lived in the US since 1989. Myself and my partner, Miles have been together 23 years, married under California law for the last six, and this is the day we’ve been waiting for. Please post something about this momentous news, G’wan!

 

We’d better get an invite.

Prop. 8: Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in California (LA Times)

(AP)

cmacma2The CMA [Catholic Medical Association] on Same Sex Attraction.

There’s a cure.

Cathie Doherty writes:

Stumbled across this earlier – yes, I’m one of those people who *could* be accused of looking for things that will offend me. Questions and Answers on ‘Same Sex Attraction’ (SSA) which isn’t Gay like…

 

Homosexuality and Hope (CMA)

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Jordi Murphy?

UPDATE: Peter Breen, of Leinster RFC writes:

A Leinster player – Jordi Murphy’s – phone was taken and a message posted on his behalf which has since been deleted so I would be grateful if you could change the story as he didn’t write it. It was a comment by a friend which Jordi knew nothing about and has acted upon it…

 

Thanks Doogie Howser

21bruni-carla-hale-popupUS high school sports coach Carla Hale.

In a termination notice, the principal explained that Carla’s “spousal relationship violates the moral laws of the Catholic Church.”

Pedanto writes:

A beloved teacher is fired from a Catholic school for acknowledging her partner in her mother’s obituary.
Can’t you just smell the compassion?

 

One School’s Catholic Teaching (Frank Bruni, New York Times)

(Pic: NYT)

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Don’t remember this in the movie.

“Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”

Margaret Thatcher, at the Conservative Party conference in 1987.

 

She had Jimmy Savile around for Christmas that year.

G0od times.

Margaret Thatcher Delivers Anti-Gay Speech In 1987 (VIDEO) (Huffington Post)

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The announcement today of results on the provision for same sex marriage at the Convention on the Constitution in Malahide, Co Dublin. Tom Arnold in the chair.

The [Constitutional] Convention decided to recommend that the Constitution be changed to allow for civil marriage for same-sex couples, with 79 of the 100 members in favour of the motion.
Nineteen delegates voted against, with one ‘no opinion’.
A report will now be drafted and the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention will now go to Government.

 

Convention votes in favour of referendum on same-sex marriage (BrealkineNews.ie)

Constitution.ie

Thanks Buzz

Meanwhile:

Screen Shot 2013-04-14 at 20.41.30Senator Ronan Mullen greets the news with Christian forbearance.

Via Stiainín Fleming

Meanwhile,

kiss1 kiss2 kiss3Same-sexers celebrating outside the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, following the announcement.

More here at Rabble.ie

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(L-R) Vincent Browne, Tiernan Brady, Susan Philips, Ailbhe Smyth, Gerry Fahey
on last night’s Tonight with Vincent Browne

 

 

 

Gay-bashing, gay marriage, and how the media needs to get a grip (Una Mullally, Irish Times)

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Dublin club promoter Buzz O’Neill today.

“I kissed my friend goodbye on the corner of the laneway, beside the dry cleaners and there was a taxi stopped beside me,” O’Neill explains. “One of the guys in it shouted ‘fucking faggot’ out the window. I told him to ‘fuck off’, and he spat at me out of the taxi.”
The man shouting abuse and three others then got out of the taxi and mounted a vicious attack on O’Neill, until a doorman from The George intervened and stopped them.

 

Gaybash on George’s Street (GCN)

Thanks Derrick Howard