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Contents:
- DUBL GAY PRI
- GAY PRI EVENTS IRELAND
- TAKG PRI OUR FUTURE: 40 YEARS OF DUBL GAY PRI
- GAY DICTNARY IRISH
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
DUBL GAY PRI
The Gay Pri ftival is 40 years old this month. Ian Lambk tak a look back at s ‘difficult teenage years’ and measur the challeng ahead * irish gay pride *
Acrdg to a blog om one of the foundg members, the group prised of Ruth Riddick, Mary Dorcey, Margaret McWilliams, Irene Brady, Michael Kerrigan, Gerry McNamara, Hugo McMan, Peter Bradley, Edmund Lynch and the now Senator David followg summer saw what may have been Ireland’s first monstratn mandg the aboln of the dranian homosexualy laws at the time. They later admted havg gone “queer bashg” at the time, but after the attackers were given spend sentenc, sparked outrage the gay muny and s alli.
Hundreds marched om Liberty Hall to Fairview Park on Saturday, March 19th, 1983, what was the first large-sle prott mandg change for the persecuted gay muny 2018, Dubl Pri held a memorial Fairview Park near the lotn of Flynn’s murr, wh veteran activists speakg of the bravery anisg such a huge prott the early 1980s.
Wh 2023 markg 40 years sce the tone March to Fairview, expect some memoratn among Dubl Pri’s talogue of events this s of PriJt a few months after Flynn’s killers’ sentencg ed the biggt prott that Ireland’s gay muny had seen, the first Dubl Pri para was held June 1983.
GAY PRI EVENTS IRELAND
Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * irish gay pride *
Although eclipsed by the numbers at the Fairview prott, the Natnal Lbian and Gay Feratn began what would bee one of the most celebrated events on the streets of Dubl: always keen to celebrate queer inty, but never losg sight of s revolutnary and clive origs. 30 years sce crimalisatnJune 24th will also be 30 years sce the State officially crimalised homosexualy, when the European Court of Human Rights led that the dranian laws ntravened the Conventn on Human Rights.
TAKG PRI OUR FUTURE: 40 YEARS OF DUBL GAY PRI
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It took a 16-year legal battle om Senator David Norris and others to achieve, but when the se was fally won, generatns of gay people uld rt whout fear of prosecutn – by the State anyway.
GAY DICTNARY IRISH
Vis our Irish Gay Dictnary to learn how to say gay Irish. It is part of our LGBT dictnary wh more than 1600 entri om 68 languag. * irish gay pride *
“Nothg that n be said here today n undo the unjt sufferg and discrimatn that the homosexual muny experienced the years prr to crimalisatn.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Outsi of Ireland, 67 untri still crimalise homosexualy, 11 untri is subject to the ath penalty and many untri, we have seen a recent rollback our rights and safety.
Dpe Ireland beg que a relig untry, particularly the past, Dubl has ntued to have an intified LGBTQ muny, who has fought relentlsly for all the rights lol gay, lbian, bi, trans, and queer people n enjoy the untry today.