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Contents:

• BELFAST GAY PRI
• PRI: THE STORY BEHD HOW BELFAST'S FIRST EVER GAY RIGHTS PARA ME ABOUT 1991
• GAY PRI
• ANTI-GAY ATTUS NORTHERN IRELAND ARE CHANGG
• BELFAST GAY PRI 2021
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

BELFAST GAY PRI

Belfast Gay Pri. About Belfast Gay Pri.

Program for Belfast Gay Pri. "Transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, sexism and misogyny are all rooted the same iology - and we nnot succsfully end one whout brgg an end to them all. POLARI WRITING WORKSHOP WITH LEE CAMPBELLBelfast Pri partnership wh Ulster Universy, 17:30 to 19:00 - Ulster Universy, York Street At the start of the workshop, participants watch a short poetry film by Lee lled The Tale of Benny Harris (2022), a film wrten entirely Polari (gay slang).

PRI: THE STORY BEHD HOW BELFAST'S FIRST EVER GAY RIGHTS PARA ME ABOUT 1991

Wh activists such as Jefey Dudgeon, Doug Sobey, Pla Keenan and more, The Troubl I've Seen explor the start of the Gay Liberatn movement, the tablishment of Cara-Friend and the ep sense of muny and support that was fed by mpaigng the face of AIDS, legal rtrictns, and the anarchial polil suatn. Tickets: THE BIG GAY QUIZ 2023 The Rabow Project, 19:00, Unn Bar, Queen's Stunts' Unn The Rabow Project's annual Pri week fundraiser THE BIG GAY QUIZ is back bigger and better. A Belfast man who has given years of his life to Pri has revealed how he me to lead the cy’s first ever gay rights para 1991.

Niall Gillpie has spent many of the last 31 years leadg, anisg and cleang up after the now huge event which brgs NI’s gay muny and more together every summer.

NIGRA, which is the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Associatn, were the anisatn that took Jeff Dudgeon’s se the European Court of human Rights. Niall add: “There was some young person there who’s name I don’t rell and he me up wh the ia, why spend money to take people away when we uld have a gay Pri para Belfast to which everybody said ‘we n’t’.

GAY PRI

T-shirt om Belfast's first gay pri on show at the Ulster Mm. I said Gay Pri and offered them a balloon.

ANTI-GAY ATTUS NORTHERN IRELAND ARE CHANGG

Belfast is home to the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ftival Ireland and the cy has a thrivg LGBTQI+ muny and gay scene. The annual Outburst Queer Arts Ftival is packed wh theatre, film, mic, visual art and discsns which explore and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stori and experienc. Belfast's bt gay bars and clubs are loted the cy's Gay Quarter area, north of the cy centre on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter.

The cy’s most famo gay club is probably Kreml on Donegall Street. A huge variety of theme nights, celebry performanc and the iendlit up-for- clubbers giv Kreml the reputatn of beg the bt gay venue Ireland. Maverick Bar on Unn Street is a popular gay bar, well-loved for s eclectic live mic nights and edy shows.

Gay-iendly bars clu Muriel’s Café Bar on Church Lane and The Spaniard on Skipper Street. Head to Boombox Belfast on Donegall Street the Gay Quarter. The Belfast LGBT Centre is loted at 23-31 Warg Street Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, which ho a number of chari cludg the Rabow Project and Cara Friend, providg unsellg, beiendg, rmatn and a health and social space for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.

BELFAST GAY PRI 2021

Belfast Pri is Ireland’s largt Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans ftival appealg to dienc of over 15, 000 people the summer of each year. So whether you are straight, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somewhere -between, e out and show your support, jo the para, attend the events, and most importantly, have fun!

"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers first parad uniform at the event police have faced cricism as some have seen their attendance as an official endorsement of gay rights mpaign a statement, Mr Sgleton said: "As a police service, we have had to refully nsir this requt om our LGBT+ Network on s mers, the stated purpos and circumstanc surroundg the para and our statutory obligatns to act wh fairns, tegry and impartialy, whilst upholdg fundamental human rights and acrdg equal rpect to all dividuals, their tradns and beliefs. Gay Pri, also lled LGBT Pri or LGBTQ Pri, byname Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raid the Stonewall Inn bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood.

Gay Pri typilly volv a seri of events and is often pped by a para volvg marchers and lourful floats om the LGBTQ muny and s the Stonewall rts, LGBTQ dividuals had generally not broadst their sexual orientatn or inty, but the event galvanized the gay muny and sparked greater polil activism (see gay rights movement). In 1970, on the first anniversary of the rts, several hundred monstrators marched along Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street, which ns past the Stonewall, what many nsir the first Gay Pri march (though other memoratns were also held that year). Early Gay Pri events (often lled Freedom Day or Gay Liberatn Day) were often sparsely attend and enuntered protts, particularly bee of the outlandish stum that some marchers wore.

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

In 1978 what is perhaps the most-regnized symbol of Gay Pri ma s but at the San Francis event: the rabow flag. As acceptance of the LGBTQ muny creased among the straight muny, policians sympathetic to the views of the LGBTQ muny and gay-iendly bs and rporatns began participatg the march.

The total number of people participatg—both gay and straight—mhroomed, and Pri events were held many part of the globe, cludg ci where they sometim enuntered stiff ristance (e.

“There is no fix or cure for me; there is no therapy that will make me a gay man…Why would we say that a gay man n be fixed or cured?