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Contents:
- THE QUEEN OF IRELAND: GAY RIGHTS MOVIE RELEASED NORTHERN IRELAND IS SHEER BLISS
- HOW YOUNG BELFAST-BORN GAY ACTIVIST BEME THE PRI OF STRIKG MERS
- WHAT 'S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY NORTHERN IRELAND
- IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE NORTHERN IRELAND’S HUMANISG GAY SEX BAN WAS FALLY STCK DOWN
- GAY CURE MOVIE ROW GROUP NEW FILM ABOUT TV STAR WHO ‘LEFT HOMOSEXUALY’
- NORTHERN IRELAND’S NEW FIRST MISTER: GAY MARRIAGE ‘NOT AT THE TOP OF MY TRAY’
- ‘GAY KE' PLAT LED ADMISSIBLE BY EUROPEAN URT
- GAY MAN MAK HISTORY NORTHERN IRELAND AS FIRST TO GIVE BLOOD SCE DONATN L BROUGHT LE WH RT OF UK
- BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
- CHRISTIAN BAKERY OWNERS W APPEAL ‘GAY KE’ SE
THE QUEEN OF IRELAND: GAY RIGHTS MOVIE RELEASED NORTHERN IRELAND IS SHEER BLISS
The role played by a Northern Ireland gay rights activist supportg the Welsh mers' strike of the Eighti is the central storyle new movie Pri. * northern ireland gay movie *
A charismatic drag queen is the star of this documentary about the Republic's gay marriage referendum, wr Andrew JohnstonThe Queen of Ireland uldn't have timed s Northern Ireland release better.
HOW YOUNG BELFAST-BORN GAY ACTIVIST BEME THE PRI OF STRIKG MERS
It’s hard to expla what ’s like growg up gay Northern Ireland, to someone who never has, scrib Damian Kerl. * northern ireland gay movie *
The Queen of Ireland tak om O'Neill's childhood the small town of Ballrobe, where he was, as he puts , "the lol gay", through the perhaps evable art llege years, to the velopment of his stage persona durg hedonistic adventur London and Tokyo.
WHAT 'S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY NORTHERN IRELAND
The lear of a lol Christian anisatn has said people don't have to accept beg gay if they don't want to as he announced the Belfast premiere of a film about a "former homosexual" realy TV nttant. * northern ireland gay movie *
He is as humble and kd as his self-scribed "urt jter" drag act is may be Han's film, but 's O'Neill and Panti's show, and as narrator, the cross-drsg star steers the narrative to s startlg nouement - Ireland's legalisg of gay marriage. To see same-sex partners celebratg streets where 22 years prevly homosexualy had been punishable by prison livers an emotnal punch on a par wh any feel-good you'd pched this tale to a Hollywood producer the early Neti, you might well have been lghed out of the reali of beg a gay man or woman Ireland the Seventi and Eighti are well vered through extensive terviews and newsreel footage, and 's hearteng to see how far Irish society has e, though for dienc the north, will be dispirg to be remd how far we are laggg Queen of Ireland serv to be seen by everyone, be they gay, straight, male, female, young or old. The role played by a Northern Ireland gay rights activist supportg the Welsh mers' strike of the Eighti is the central storyle new movie Pri.
IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS SCE NORTHERN IRELAND’S HUMANISG GAY SEX BAN WAS FALLY STCK DOWN
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Lnched to wispread cril acclaim at the Cann Film Ftival and currently showg cemas, Pri tells the story of Portsh man Mark Ashton's efforts to break down barriers mid-80s film follows the te story of a group of gays and lbians London who cid to raise money for strikg mers, bee of their mutual hatred of Margaret, who died of Aids at the age of 27 1987, studied at the former Caterg College Portsh, before movg to London where he beme a leadg gay the 1984/85 mers' strike Wal, Ashton and his iend Mike Jackson set up Lbian and Gays Support the Mers (LGSM) is played by Ben Schzer a st that clus Bill Nighy, Imelda Stnton and Domic Guardian scrib Aston as the movie's "most arrtg character – a charmg, h-faced Irish boy" played betifully by Schzer wh "spontaney, sweetns and swagger – a heartbreaker". "Ashton was born 1961 and moved London the late 1970s where he was part of the young, unrground gay scene to mic, fashn and clubs.
GAY CURE MOVIE ROW GROUP NEW FILM ABOUT TV STAR WHO ‘LEFT HOMOSEXUALY’
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Wnsg extreme poverty, sickns and social equaly he returned to the UK wh a renewed sense of purpose and polil joed the Young Communist League and beme volved wh Gay featured Framed Youth: Revenge Of The Teenage Perverts (1983), an early award-wng documentary produced by Lbian and Gay was diagnosed wh Aids on January 30, 1987 and died 12 days later.
NORTHERN IRELAND’S NEW FIRST MISTER: GAY MARRIAGE ‘NOT AT THE TOP OF MY TRAY’
BackgroundMark Ashton joed the Young Communist League and beme volved wh Gay 1984 Mark played a key role the formatn of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers. Damian Kerl opens up about his experience of growg up as a gay man Northern Ireland.
It’s hard to expla what ’s like growg up gay Northern Ireland to someone who never has, scrib Damian Kerl.
Much of Northern Ireland is standard ral, workg class muni this way, but for me – and I image many others – your experience of livg this type of muny is twisted unexpected ways when you grow up as gay. I always knew that I was gay. Ultimately, growg up gay a ral and relig area like Northern Ireland n feel suffotg once you’ve accepted yourself.
‘GAY KE' PLAT LED ADMISSIBLE BY EUROPEAN URT
© 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). It is 40 years sce the European Court of Human Rights livered s landmark lg that ultimately stck down Northern Ireland’s humanisg ban on homosexualy.
GAY MAN MAK HISTORY NORTHERN IRELAND AS FIRST TO GIVE BLOOD SCE DONATN L BROUGHT LE WH RT OF UK
In 1967, homosexualy was partially crimalised England and Wal wh the Sexual Offence Act. When beme clear that the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy would not be extend to Northern Ireland, queer people the regn rose up. The secretary of state ially appeared sympathetic to the e of gay rights activists Northern Ireland.
That lg me wh a ccial veat, however: the mtee said there appeared to be limed support for change to laws around homosexualy Northern Ireland. The UK ernment tried to move forward wh the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy Northern Ireland followg that remendatn – however, efforts stalled when beme clear that none of the 12 MPs for the terrory were willg to support change.
BELFAST: GAY AND LBIAN
Those volved the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Associatn (NIGRA) fought tirelsly for the law to be changed as police arrted them, forced them to unrgo humanisg medil exams and raid their hoe. Paisley, a reverend wh the Free Prbyterian Church, was termed that the law should not be changed to grant gay people the rights and eedoms they so sperately craved.
The ernment promised that laws would not be enforced, but gay people ntued to face persecutn and harassment om the police. He was also a gay rights activist and a member of NIGRA when he was arrted on dg charg 1976.
Police disvered personal rrponnc sent by him which he tailed gay sex acts he had taken part , and jt like that, his se was transformed to an anti-gay wch hunt. Dudgeon brought a se to the European Commissn of Human Rights argug that Northern Ireland’s ban on homosexualy was unlawful. He said the laws crimalisg homosexualy terfered wh his right to a private life and was vlatn of Article 8 of the European Conventn on Human Rights.
CHRISTIAN BAKERY OWNERS W APPEAL ‘GAY KE’ SE
It also found that the law vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights as prevented gay people om exercisg their right to a private life.