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• 10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS AND REFORM IRELAND: A PERSONAL HISTORY
• TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS IRELAND OM 1861
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• IRISH GAY RIGHTS: HOW WE GOT HERE
• “CHERISHG ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE NATN EQUALLY”: GAY YOUTH ORGANISATN AND ACTIVISM IRELAND
• NEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTENEW YORK - TARLACH MAC NIALLAIS, AN IRISH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS ACTIVIST, HAS A STREET NEW YORK NAMED AFTER HIM. MR. MAC NIALLAIS, A NATIVE OF BELFAST, DIED OF A COVID-RELATED ILLNS APRIL OF LAST YEAR. 'TARLACH MACNIALLAIS WAY' WAS PRENTED AS THE NEW OFFICIAL NAME OF THE TERSECTN OF 49TH STREET AND 43RD AVENUE QUEENS, NEW YORK, AT A CEREMONY FRIDAY NIGHT. IN THE MID-1980S, MR. MACNIALLAIS RELOTED TO THE UNED STAT AND BEME VOLVED THE NEW YORK GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HE ALSO OVERSAW A QUEENS-BASED PROJECT FOR PEOPLE WH LEARNG DISABILI. MEMBERS OF HIS FAY, CLUDG HIS NEPHEW GARY NELLIS, TRAVELED OM IRELAND FOR THE FRIDAY NIGHT'S EVENT. "WE'RE VERY PROUD TO BE HERE AND TO BE ABLE TO THANK THE PEOPLE OF THE CY OF NEW YORK. "THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE HONOR TO BE GIVEN, TO HAVE A STREET NAMED AFTER YOU. IN A HUNDRED YEARS, THIS SIGN WILL STILL BE HERE, AND RERC TARLACH'S LEGACY," NELLIS SAID. MR. MAC NIALLAIS HAS BEEN PROTTG THE REJECTN OF THE NEW YORK ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA ANIZERS TO ALLOW THE LGBT MOVEMENT TO MARCH UNR THEIR BANNERS FOR YEARS. THE PERMISSN WAS EVENTUALLY GRANTED 2016. MR. MAC NIALLAIS' IEND AND A NEW YORK CY COUNCIL MEMBER, JIMMY VAN BRAMER, SAID. "IT IS AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO NAME A STREET AFTER SOMEONE I KNEW WELL FOR 30 YEARS. I WISH HE WERE STILL ALIVE TODAY, BUT HE SERV TO BE REGNIZED AND REMEMBERED FOREVER. "EVERYONE WILL SEE THAT BIG IRISH NAME, AND HE SERV THAT," BRAMER SAID. !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");NEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTENEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE
• IRISH GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND GLEN FOUNDG MEMBER DI

10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS

HistoryHomosexual activy Ireland?

Homosexual activy Ireland is legal. Current statSce Jan 1, 1993Legal Homosexualy was crimalized Ireland wh the the passg of the Crimal Law (Sexual Offenc) Act, marriage Ireland?

Current statSce Dec 3, 2015Illegal Ireland has removed their relig exceptns for anti-gay discrimatn, makg pletely illegal employment discrimatn Ireland?

GAY RIGHTS AND REFORM IRELAND: A PERSONAL HISTORY

Current statSce Jan 1, 1993Equal The age of nsent Ireland is 17 for heterosexual and homosexual sex. It is part of a seri of ton Irish gay rights. 1: The trial of Osr Wil, 1895In the aftermath of his trials for “gross cency” at the Old Bailey 1895, when he was nvicted and sentenced to two years of hard labour, Wil was bankpted, his plays removed om the Wt End stage and his name erased om all public discsn except as a name for “unspeakabl of the Osr Wil sort” – or gay men, as we would now ll them.

The clud the Dubl Castle sndal of 1884, when a number of men workg the Castle admistratn were tried for havg homosexual relatns. 2: The crown jewels theft, 1907A siar high-profile legal se me wh the furore around the 1907 theft of the Irish crown jewels, when opportunistic natnalist anger agast crown admistrators was exprsed vilently homophobic newspaper outpourgs. When any reprentatn of the homoerotic ma to the public arena, was met wh vehement opposn.

TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS IRELAND OM 1861

4: The Wolfenn report, 1957The slow procs of change began when the Wolfenn report on homosexual offenc and prostutn was published, England, 1957.

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

As Ireland experienced radil enomic, legal and social change durg the last half of the 20th century and to the 21st, there began a rensiratn of the public role of Irish lbian and gay liv. 5: Irish Gay Rights Movement, 1974Gay liberatn, already a key polil and social velopment the UK and North Ameri the 1960s, found a new foc Ireland 1974, five years after the Stonewall rts New York, wh the foundatn of the Irish Gay Rights Movement, Dubl.

The mpaign for the crimalisatn of male homosexualy Ireland (abolished the UK 1967) foced on a legal challenge taken by a universy lecturer English lerature, David Norris. 6: Natnal Gay Feratn, 1979In 1979 the Natnal Gay Feratn, which clud Norris, set up the Hirschfield Centre the then unfashnable Temple Bar area of Dubl; the centre published a seri of -hoe magaz, partly to provi a social work and partly to give support on polil issu and on the Aids crisis of the 1980s. 7: David Norris and Declan Flynn s, 1983David Norris brought his se for the crimalisatn of homosexualy to the High Court, where was rejected, and then to the Supreme Court, where he was reprented by Mary Robson, and where was also rejected, 1983.

The rultg outrage led to march, public protts and an creasg sense of polil nfince for Irish lbian and gay groups.

IRISH GAY RIGHTS: HOW WE GOT HERE

The mpaign group Glen – the Gay and Lbian Equaly Now – was found. 8: Decrimalisatn, 1993Decrimalisatn eventually took place after the European Court of Human Rights led that Ireland's anti-gay laws ntravened the European Conventn on Human Rights of 1988.

“CHERISHG ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE NATN EQUALLY”: GAY YOUTH ORGANISATN AND ACTIVISM IRELAND

Fally, on June 24, 1993, Dáil Éireann passed a Bill crimalisg homosexualy. 10: Civil partnership, 2010From this ccial moment me a seri of other legal and social moments regnisg the existence of Irish LGBT liv, as wh the moment when, 2010, lbian and gay relatnships were regnised by civil partnership, wh some of civil marriage’s legal rights and there is one thg I have learned om wrg historil fictn and bgraphy is that private liv are much the same now as they were 100 years ago. Homosexualy and abortn were crimal offens.

The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform was found the 1970s, but s early activi took place agast an often hostile social and polil background. Homophobic attacks were relatively rare, but the murrs of Declan Flynn and Charl Self the 1980s were attributed to homophobic vlence. In 1988, David Norris—then a member of the Seanad, the upper hoe of parliament—won a se before the European Court of Human Rights which led to the crimalizatn of homosexualy 1993.

NEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTENEW YORK - TARLACH MAC NIALLAIS, AN IRISH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS ACTIVIST, HAS A STREET NEW YORK NAMED AFTER HIM. MR. MAC NIALLAIS, A NATIVE OF BELFAST, DIED OF A COVID-RELATED ILLNS APRIL OF LAST YEAR. 'TARLACH MACNIALLAIS WAY' WAS PRENTED AS THE NEW OFFICIAL NAME OF THE TERSECTN OF 49TH STREET AND 43RD AVENUE QUEENS, NEW YORK, AT A CEREMONY FRIDAY NIGHT. IN THE MID-1980S, MR. MACNIALLAIS RELOTED TO THE UNED STAT AND BEME VOLVED THE NEW YORK GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HE ALSO OVERSAW A QUEENS-BASED PROJECT FOR PEOPLE WH LEARNG DISABILI. MEMBERS OF HIS FAY, CLUDG HIS NEPHEW GARY NELLIS, TRAVELED OM IRELAND FOR THE FRIDAY NIGHT'S EVENT. "WE'RE VERY PROUD TO BE HERE AND TO BE ABLE TO THANK THE PEOPLE OF THE CY OF NEW YORK. "THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE HONOR TO BE GIVEN, TO HAVE A STREET NAMED AFTER YOU. IN A HUNDRED YEARS, THIS SIGN WILL STILL BE HERE, AND RERC TARLACH'S LEGACY," NELLIS SAID. MR. MAC NIALLAIS HAS BEEN PROTTG THE REJECTN OF THE NEW YORK ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA ANIZERS TO ALLOW THE LGBT MOVEMENT TO MARCH UNR THEIR BANNERS FOR YEARS. THE PERMISSN WAS EVENTUALLY GRANTED 2016. MR. MAC NIALLAIS' IEND AND A NEW YORK CY COUNCIL MEMBER, JIMMY VAN BRAMER, SAID. "IT IS AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO NAME A STREET AFTER SOMEONE I KNEW WELL FOR 30 YEARS. I WISH HE WERE STILL ALIVE TODAY, BUT HE SERV TO BE REGNIZED AND REMEMBERED FOREVER. "EVERYONE WILL SEE THAT BIG IRISH NAME, AND HE SERV THAT," BRAMER SAID. !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");NEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTENEW YORK STREET NAMED AFTER IRISH GAY RIGHTS ADVOTE

Ireland was one of the last stat Wtern Europe to crimalize homosexualy. In 1981, 62 percent of the populatn was strongly opposed to homosexualy, but this had dropped to 38 percent by 2000. Ultimately, the bill to crimalize homosexualy was not opposed by any of the ma parti when proceed through parliament.

IRISH GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND GLEN FOUNDG MEMBER DI

The Gay and Lbian Equaly Network had been advotg for equal rights om the 1980s, and embarked on a profsnal and well-fund mpaign promotg full marriage rights which would heavily fluence the cisn to hold a referendum.

Openly gay members of the Dáil and Seanad had been elected at several electns by 2015; most proment among them is Leo Varadkar, who me out as a gay man 2015 while a ernment mister and was subsequently elected prime mister 2017. In 2018, Ireland ma to the top five statns for gay honeymoons, and is also nsired to be one of the saft statns for holidays for LGBT tourists. A long-nng urt se Northern Ireland, which is part of the Uned Kgdom, volved a dispute about whether a bakery engaged discrimatn when refed to bake a ke wh a pro-gay marriage msage on .

Timele: A history of gay rights Ireland. Leo Varadkar beg Ireland’s first openly gay mister 22 years after the crimalisatn of homosexualy Ireland. YESTERDAY MINISTER FOR Health Leo Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay bet member.