Gay Ireland is a thrivg and stgglg force all parts of the untry

Contents:

• GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--CORK CY
• GAY FLUENCER VICTIM OF VLENT ATTACK CORK CY
• CORK: GAY AND LBIAN
• GAY NEW YORK CY
• GAY KRAKOW
• CORK GAY BARS
• GAY IRELAND
• THE LOFT - CLOSEDCORKMENUCORK · HOTELSGAY GUTHOE / B&BBARSCISE CLUBSGAY MAPIRELAND INXTHE LOFT - CLOSED
• CORK GAY CISE CLUBS
• GAY GUANGZHOU
• GAY ALBANY
• GAY CHA

GAY LIFE MORN IRELAND--CORK CY

Wele to the provisnal se for Corks new gay Sna. Gay Ireland News & Reports 2000 to prent.

Gay Ireland Photo Galleri.

We arrived Gay Ireland via Cork on a late afternoon enterg the cy along the Lee River led wh wareho, dockyards, and a power plant that give way to an olr cy downtown wh s morn opera hoe, Victorian office buildgs and untls zy pubs.

GAY FLUENCER VICTIM OF VLENT ATTACK CORK CY

Arrivg at Roman Hoe B&B there was ltle qutn that we were a gay B&B; wh red plaid rpetg and a hall poster of Joan Crawford, Roman Hoe B&B is a playful mix of ksch and fort.

After a chat wh Richard about plac to eat we strolled along trendy Pl Street wh s hearty rtrants and f (as well as an Inter shop) and ma our way to the gay Taboo bar for a drk and a chat. He easily slipped to nversatn and seemed eager to expla the easy life that lbigays have Cork. 000) and gay people tend to know each other more.

Also, Cork is mostly a workg class cy wh few pretensns and seemgly void of the “body fascism and fashn fascism” found among the gay urban trendy crowds of Dubl (somewhat) or London (fely). He said he never had any doubts or fears of police or homophobic bulli.

CORK: GAY AND LBIAN

“Colm seemed satisfied wh his prent circumstanc as a profsnal and as a gay man.

Rural Gay Farmers.

Not surprisgly, sce the were not ‘cy guys’, the talk was void of gay referenc at first.

GAY NEW YORK CY

Hantly but neverthels cur, I asked about livg as gay people a ral environment. Gay ‘life’ is non-existent such Irish hamlets as theirs.

But bee Ireland is such a small untry, is mon for ral gays to drive for a uple of hours and be a cy where there are iends, clubs, bars, diss or snas for lettg down their guard for a day or hancy sharg the few bs of Irish queer farm life discled me om further pursu. Later, after Tom and Mark had fished breakfast and left, our host Richard mented that even unr the ver of a ‘big’ cy like Cork was unlikely that the ral guys ‘dulge’ the gay scene other than ge spectators havg a few beers and enjoyg the mic.

Gay Life Cork.

GAY KRAKOW

Cork is big enough to support a reasonable number of gay venu, anizatns and many circl of iends.

CORK GAY BARS

In addn to gay events, the cy hosts events such as the annual jazz ftival, which brgs a lot of visors to Cork cludg many gay folks.

Acrdg to him, the recent Day of Diversy (which ved the gay and lbian muny) was mostly aimed at racial mori pecially blacks who have arrived large numbers Ireland the past five years. Richard is one of eight children, two of whom are gay: his brother Steve is gay and liv Dubl.

GAY IRELAND

Richard offered that some mothers secretly like havg gay sons bee such offsprg often ntue to pay attentn to their mothers when straight siblgs are off and gone to attend to their wiv and children. Raised a Catholic fay he, like many other gay and lbian people, has pretty much dropped the church out of his life.

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For native gay sons and lbian dghters, Irish life has been mostly ee of discrimatn, harassment and vlence recent years. Homophobic vlence is rare. Richard’s asssment of the Dubl gay scene was that had been sced by the ‘pk Euro’ to beg too mercial and overpriced.

CORK GAY CISE CLUBS

He said the pric for drks tomatilly are bumped up after midnight the gay bars and pubs like Gee. Lols maly support the gay venu so there is not this rip-off attu among the bar owners.

When Richard did some renovatns on his B&B, he readily knew a gay rpenter, gay electrician and a gay kchen staller. So seems that gay life Cork is active but ntaed. A visor to Cork soon fds out that one of the most succsful lbigay anizatns is Lc—Lbian Cork.

One very tertg narrative pots out that, acrdg to one study on Irish gays and lbians 1995, almost 60% of rponnts had emigrated at some pot their liv and that sexual orientatn was a key factor their cisn. However, sce homosexualy was crimalized 1993 a dramatic shift has occurred.

GAY GUANGZHOU

As Irish laws and attus have changed signifintly the ensug , many Irish émigrés who had moved abroad now fd, ironilly, that Ireland offers more liberal laws regardg homosexualy. The other major Cork lbigay anizatn is Cork Gay Project. It has a fé, bar, a bookshop, social meetgs as well as the cy’s office of the natnal Gay Men’s Health Project, which offers advice and support for STDs and HIV.

What are the popular party venu for gay guys Cork?

GAY ALBANY

I like to party wh my iends at the gay clubs. Now I am really exced to move to a more acceptg untry but all my iends cludg a iend livg Dubl are tellg me "are you crazy, there is not gonna be any signifint gay populatn a cy so small, you're gonna be all alone, you know how we like to party there's not gonna be any of that there and sce the cy is not that ternatnal people will always treat you differently pecially when they hear you are om Eastern Europe'.

Sce 2011, Cork Cy Council, through s Communy Sectn and Cork Cy Inter-Agency Group anis Cork LGBTI+ Awarens Week to ci wh ternatnal IDAHOT (Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia).

GAY CHA

One of the workshops at the Natnal Gay Conference Cork 1981 was on Gays and the Tra Unn Movement. A number of motns were passed supportg the fight for equal employment rights for lbians and gay men and llg for Tra Unns to support lbian and gay rights. The Cork Gay Collective was to act as an rmatn centre for all dividuals workg on issu of gay rights at work.

Followg the nference, members of the Cork Gay Collective lobbied and leafleted at the Irish Congrs of Tra Unn annual nference Cork Cy Hall 1981 urgg them to support LGBT workers’ rights. In 1982 Kieran Rose of Cork Gay Collective proposed a motn, send by Tricia Treacy, support of gay rights at the Cork Branch of the LGPSU Tra Unn (Lol Government and Public Service Unn).

The motn stated that the Unn would ll on the Irish Congrs of Tra Unns to support repeal of the laws crimalisg homosexualy and the amendment of employment legislatn to prevent discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. In 1982 the Irish Congrs of Tra Unns (ICTU) passed a motn support of gay rights. In 1984 Kieran Rose produced a leaflet, Claimg an Inty, Gays at Work, on behalf of the Cork Branch of LGPSU.