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auntyben

Aunty Ben is Ireland’s first LGBT play for children about a nine-year old girl and her favourite uncle, who is a drag queen”.

Super Paua theatre company write:

“We are a theatre company set up in 2013 to make brave work for young audiences Our first show – Aunty Ben – is about to premiere at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, before transferring to the Brighton Fringe Festival, and we need your help to launch it!
Aunty Ben is a very pioneering show – it is a play for children (and adults!) aged 7+, about a drag queen. The story revolves around nine-year-old Tracey’s relationship with her favourite aunty, Ben. It doesn’t matter to Tracey at all that Aunty Ben is actually her uncle, or that he is a drag queen, because in Tracey’s family dressing up is for everyone! But when Ben meets her school friends, Tracey is shocked to discover that other people’s families can be very different to her own…”

Aunty Ben (Indiegogo)

Via David Gormley

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‘Queers can march in Cork, why can’t queers march in New York?’

Protestors at yesterday’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York voice their concern at the banning of LGBT groups from the parade.

Unsettling ‘banshee’ @1.06

Yesterday: Walk Of Shame

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[Enda Kenny with parade leaders on Fifth Avenue New York Today]

“Many of those people in the parade today are also members of the gay community and they are marching proudly in the St Patrick’s Day parade,”

Enda Kenny

Don’t ask. Don’t tell.

Taoiseach defends decision to march in New York parade (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)

Pic via Simon Carswell

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The Pet Shop Boys featuring Miss Pant’s [Rory O’Neill’s] ‘Noble Call’ speech from the stage of the Abbey Theatre last month.

Pet Shop Boys release new song based on gay rights speech (NME)

Meanwhile…

Dr David Robert Grimes writes:

“Another major reason for the persistence of homophobia may be a defensive reaction, rooted in fears and discomfort about one’s own sexuality. A 1996 study by Henry E Adams et al at the University of Georgia in the US took a group of self-identified heterosexual men and split them into two groups according to whether they openly expressed homophobic sentiments. The groups were then shown heterosexual, lesbian and gay pornography while bloodflow to the penis and erectile changes were recorded.

“While both homophobic and non-homophobic groups experienced increases in penis circumference when exposed to the heterosexual and lesbian pornography, only the homophobic group showed an increase in response to male homosexual porn. Furthermore, when asked to rate how arousing the material was afterwards, homophobic participants declared it had no effect, despite their penis saying otherwise.

“This led the authors to conclude that “Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.”

“In a similar vein, a 2012 study found that individuals who experienced low parental approval were sometimes motivated to conceal same-sex attraction, leading to exaggerated defence mechanisms including homophobia.”

Similar vein eh?

FIGHT!

Why is it proving so hard to root out homophobia? (David Robert Grimes, The Guardian)

Previously: Dear John

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[Freemen from top Gay Byrne (1990 Jack Charlton (1994) and Bob Geldof (2006)]

The Freedom of the City of Dublin.

Few (ladies) are chosen.

Henry & Clover write:

“If my cursory glance of the list [of 76 those awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin] doesn’t overlook anyone, that’s 71 men (including all four members of U2) and five women. There’s Michiko, empress-consort of Japan. There’s Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta,.. There’s Aung San Suu Kyi,. There’s Margaret Sandhurst, English suffragist. And, finally, there’s Maureen Potter, actor and comedian, who, of the seventy-six recipients of the Freedom of the City of Dublin, is the only Irish woman.

The Lord Mayor nominated and City Council approved a further two awards for 2014: Brian O’Driscoll and Father Peter McVerry…”

Oh.

Isaac Butt, W.E. Gladstone, et al. (Henry & Clover)

(Photocall ireland)

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Splutter.

Paddy Walsh writes:

Thought you might be interested on some level in the blatant sexism one Boards.ie poster encountered in Spar in the IFSC {International Financial Services Centre, Dublin]”.

Female Sandwich Makers Needed – No Sausages need Apply (Boards.ie)