https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_aikaOWBM#t=12
Celebrity-laden support for this weekend’s Dublin Pride.
Buzz writes;
“Let the bitchy comments begin :)…”
Tag Archives: LGBT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfM20r48HlE&feature=youtu.be
You never forget your first same sex ‘pash’.
In fairness.
Kate Dolan (top) writes:
“Hello! To celebrate the recent launch of our short film’s IndieGoGo campaign we have made a short promo video. We interviewed a few LGBT about their first crushes, as we are making a film, ‘Little Doll’ that captures the struggle of a young girl who’s first crush is on an older girl. The video comes just in time for Dublin Pride tomorrow and we’d really appreciate a share. Thanks a million…”
Today is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
SIPTU LGBT network are holding a one minute ‘NOISE memoriam’ at Liberty Hall, Dublin this evening.
SEE YOU THERE SO.
*gargles lemon and honey*
SIPTU LGBT Newtwork (Facebook)
Thanks Rachel Mathews McKay
Endless Art
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ALL art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde.
Danleo, Denise Nestor, Maser/Leah Burke (Homebird), Will St. Ledger, will be flogging their wares masters of their arts.
Where? The Copper House Gallery on Thursday, May 1st.
Dee Reddy writes:
“Marriage Equality’s vision is of an Ireland in which same sex couples, our families and our children enjoy equality. The contributing artists, the event sponsors and No Fixed Abode share this vision and hope that through this exhibition we can raise funds for Marriage Equality to continue their amazing work ahead of the referendum on same-sex marriage in 2015.”
‘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
The tux/quiff alternative.
Oisin O’Reilly writes:
“BeLonG To [LGBT youth group] have a new video out entitled ‘Stand Up for Your Friends’ it’s been released today as part of ‘Stand Up LGBT Awareness Week’ their annual campaign to end homophobia & transphobia in Irish schools and youth services. The campaign brings a very simple message to young people ‘Show your support to your LGBT friends & don’t stand for homophobic bullying’.”
Twitter feed: #StandUp14
http://vimeo.com/83843825
Novena.
A short Irish documentary/work in progress YOU can help finish.
Ah go on.
Conor Kavanagh writes:
It can be difficult being LGBT in school. Research by the HSE shows that 20% of young Irish LGBT have attempted suicide.
ShoutOut is a network of Garda-vetted volunteers that help schools to host workshops with students, in which the issue of homophobic bullying can be examined in a mature way.
We are an organisation set up and run by young adults, looking to deliver free workshops in over 100 Irish secondary schools.
We are €3,000 short of our budget, a shout out for ShoutOut would be greatly appreciated.
ShoutOut Indigo funding here
“I was surprised to hear it,” the [Fine Gael TD] said of the Cabinet discussion [on a referendum on same sex marriage] to come .
“I just feel that our job is to get the economy back on track…” When it was put to him that Mr Gilmore had cast same-sex marriage as the civil rights issue of our time, the TD said: “I think it’ll be in Labour’s interest as well to follow what I just said.”
Fine Gael TDs uneasy over same-sex marriage poll (Irish Times)
Previously: I’m Just A TD Who Happens To be Gay
Pic: Fine Gael
(Stephen Fry with Vitaly Milonov, the Russian lawmaker who started the ongoing crackdown on Russia’s LGBT community, above)
Stephen Fry writes:
An absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 in Sochi is simply essential. Stage them elsewhere in Utah, Lillyhammer, anywhere you like. At all costs Putin cannot be seen to have the approval of the civilised world.
He is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews. He cannot be allowed to get away with it. I know whereof I speak. I have visited Russia, stood up to the political deputy [Vitaly Milonov] who introduced the first of these laws, in his city of St Petersburg.I looked into the face of the man and, on camera, tried to reason with him, counter him, make him understand what he was doing.
All I saw reflected back at me was what Hannah Arendt called, so memorably, “the banality of evil.” A stupid man, but like so many tyrants, one with an instinct of how to exploit a disaffected people by finding scapegoats.
Putin may not be quite as oafish and stupid as Deputy Milonov but his instincts are the same.
He may claim that the “values” of Russia are not the “values” of the West, but this is absolutely in opposition to Peter the Great’s philosophy, and against the hopes of millions of Russians, those not in the grip of that toxic mix of shaven headed thuggery and bigoted religion, those who are agonised by the rolling back of democracy and the formation of a new autocracy in the motherland that has suffered so much (and whose music, literature and drama, incidentally I love so passionately).
…I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler’s anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian “correctively” raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.
An Open Letter David Cameron And The IOC (Stephen Fry)
Meanwhile:
Irish youth groups have handed in a letter of concern to the Russian Ambassador today to protest at the violent treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LBGT) young people in Russia after a gay teenager who was allegedly kidnapped and beaten by neo-Nazis died of his injuries.
BeLonG To Youth Services, The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) and the International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) have joined together to express their concern at the rise in public violence towards LGBT young people in Russia following the recent passing of homophobic legislation in the Russian parliament.
Irish youth groups hold Russian Embassy homophobia letter protest (BelongTo)