Limerick LGBTQ has a thrivg gay scene cludg a weekly club, anisatns and an annual Pri ftival which has been growg size
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STROKERS GAY BAR
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Limerick LGBTQ has a thrivg muny workg together and wh other anisatns to progrs gay rights and culture the cy and unty. For Limerick LGBTQ who intify as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and even Queer, this is an amazg ocsn as everyone walks wh Pri up O’Connell Street acpanied by their loved on, fay and iends as the lovely people of Limerick cheer om the sil. After the crimalisatn of homosexualy Ireland 1993, the doors opened que lerally for LGBTQ dividuals to celebrate who they were amongst like md people, but wasn’t until 2001 that the first Pri Events took place our betiful cy of Limerick and om there we really haven’t looked back.
The ftival also regnised the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia as an important date s off-season lendar. The referendum marked a dramatic social shift a tradnally Catholic untry that only crimalised homosexualy two s ago. Thoands of people of all ag led the streets for Limerick’s most splendid and lourful day celebratg lbian, gay bisexual and transgenr culture.
This year’s Grand Marshall was Monne Griffh, Executive Director of BeLonG To Youth Servic, a natnal anisatn supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI+) young people Ireland. Gay Ireland News & Reports 2000 to prent.
GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--LIMERICK AND GALWAY
Gay Ireland is a thrivg and stgglg force that was given legal birth the early 1990’s when homosexualy was crimalized * gay limerick ireland *
Gay Ireland Photo Galleri. Acrdg to the gay Ireland web se and the opns of some people Cork—cludg the two gay farmers we met—there is supposedly no gay life Limerick. “Oh y, ” she said whout lay, “there is gay club lled Yum Yum jt two blocks down this street; and there’s a gay rtrant on the next turng right.
Sure enough, at the Glentworth Hotel om 11:30 PM till about two the morng every Friday night was lbigay night. So there is some gay life Limerick—of urse.
Before I left the non-gay Whe Hoe pub, the same pleasant straight woman told me my bt bet was to ll the Gay and Lbian Swchboard. Checkg the directory GCN, I saw thirteen venu and servic for gay Limerick, cludg the Gay Swchboard Limerick and the Lbian Le Limerick. There are two gay universy groups.
GAY STREET LIMERICK
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It didn’t take long to fd signs of gay life Galway. I stopped to buy a py of the Irish Tim at a downtown news stand and close by were recent issu of Attu magaze and Gay Tim (both om London), Out (om USA) as well as Gay Ireland magaze (Gi). Checkg the listgs GCN newspaper, there were sixteen gay and lbian venu, groups and servic town, two bars, three f, help phone l, support groups and HIV re groups.
I chatted wh a man named Phil about this year’s Gay Pri weekend Galway.