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ShoutOut is a community of volunteers and activists committed to improving life for LGBTQ+ people in Ireland.

They need your help.

Declan Meehan writes

68% of LGBTQ+ Irish students report experiencing bullying directed towards them because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

ShoutOut aims to tackle this huge problem by delivering workshops to students in the classroom.

Last year we delivered workshops to almost 10,000 students, free of charge, and since our foundation in 2012 we have reached over 28,000 students.

We are aiming to raise €10,000 by Christmas Eve. So far we have raised 56% of our goal on GoFundMe (see link below).

We desperately need additional funding to ensure the continuation of FREE anti-bullying workshops in schools all across the island of Ireland, to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Irish schools.

Help ShoutOut Reach More Students (GoFundMe)

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InterTech is a diversity platform that brings LGBT members of the tech community in Dublin together for social events.

Next Thursday, December 8, at 6.30pm, it will hold a fundraiser for ShoutOut at Oscars Café Bar on Fishamble Street, Dublin 8.

Further to this…

Conor Kavanagh, of InterTech, writes:

ShoutOut is a non-profit that delivers workshops to high-school students in Ireland around how to be a good ally, what homophobia and transphobia really are and how they can manifest themselves.

It’ll be informal drinks, pizza and a raffle with premium tech prizes. As we’ve probably all experienced, there’s no better place to find an ally than in a school corridor. So buy your ticket and join us on December 8th for some after-work drinks, pizza, a raffle and a great cause.

Buy tickets, €11.23, here

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Make some friends.

Hear some tunes.

And slurp tay with some of the LGBT tech community in Dublin.

Conor Kavanagh writes:

A gaggle of LGBT employees from the Dublin tech community are hosting a fundraiser in Everleigh Gardens on Thursday, December 4th. We’re trying to raise funds for ShoutOut [LGBT youth support group] – to whom your readers have been extremely kind in the past. There are going to be tunes, free food, premium prizes (phones, tablets, tech swag, WebSummit tickets) to be won and a welcoming crowd!

Tickets are €10 (excluding booking fee) and all funds go directly to ShoutOut. It’s being thrown by InterTech, a coalition of the LGBT employees from six of the tech firms in Dublin (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, LinkedIn and Dropbox) who want to contribute to the diversity debate in Ireland.

If 2014 has shown us anything, it is that the more passive we are about homophobia – the greater damage it does to us, and to the generation that follows. If you can’t come (we’ll cry) – but try to buy a ticket anyway to support a good cause.

Book tickets/donate here:

Intertech Diversity Forum (Facebook)