Dubl Gay Pri 2023: dat, para, route - misterb&b

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

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. 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.

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. “Nothg that n be said here today n undo the unjt sufferg and discrimatn that the homosexual muny experienced the years prr to crimalisatn.

GAY PRI EVENTS IRELAND

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. Followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969, the LGBTQ movement Dubl began to ga tractn durg the early 70s, wh Gay Pri often beg reprented each year the form of a piic Merrn Square. A ltle later 1974, the cy's very first low-sle march took place, ung 10 people who rallied om the Department of Jtice on Stephen’s Green to the Brish Embassy prott of the existg crimalizatn of homosexualy.

Organized rponse to the release of several people who murred a gay man, Declan Flynn, roughly 900 rallied on the cy streets, marchg om Liberty Hall to Fairview Park. "And they’re gay, they’re straight, and they’re Mlim and they’re Catholic and they’re atheist, and we all today are Irish and celebrate that together.

TAKG PRI OUR FUTURE: 40 YEARS OF DUBL GAY PRI

Photograph: Attila Kisbenek/AFP Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT mister Viktor Orban’s ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned “display and promotn of homosexualy” books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg.

Although many ways LGBTI+ people now have many of the same rights that straight and cis people do, there are still laws Ireland that discrimate agast LGBTI+ people and LGBTI+ people ntue to face homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and other bigotry var ways. While would not be until June 1983 before the first Gay Pri Prott march took place, Pri was celebrated Dubl many different ways om as early as June 1974.

GAY DICTNARY IRISH

On June 27, 1974, the Sexual Liberatn Movement, a Dubl-based anisatn that was found Try College Dubl 1973, anised the first Gay Pri monstratn Dubl.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

” Those who picketed outsi the Brish Embassy and the Department of Jtice rried plards that stated: ‘Homosexuals are Revoltg’, ‘Gay is Good’ and ‘Lbian Love’. In a sign of the growg ternatnal gay rights movement and the solidary amongst those anisatns, a cisn had been taken May 1974 at the annual ngrs of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly, to dite Gay Pri day 1974 to highlight the suatn faced by homosexuals Ireland and to offer their support to them.