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Contents:

• 10 TON IRISH GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS AND REFORM IRELAND: A PERSONAL HISTORY
• TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS IRELAND OM 1861
• HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
• GAY IRELAND
• GAY DUBL

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?

Current statSce Jan 1, 1993Equal The age of nsent Ireland is 17 for heterosexual and homosexual sex. Timele: A history of gay rights Ireland. Leo Varadkar beg Ireland’s first openly gay mister 22 years after the crimalisatn of homosexualy Ireland.

GAY RIGHTS AND REFORM IRELAND: A PERSONAL HISTORY

YESTERDAY MINISTER FOR Health Leo Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay bet member.

The Mister’s cisn to go public wh his sexualy jt over twenty years after the crimilisatn of homosexualy the Irish state.

TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS IRELAND OM 1861

For most of Ireland’s history, s laws agast homosexualy dated om the Victorian era and were held over for more than 140 years. This movement was known as the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform and aimed at crimalisg homosexualy Ireland and Northern Ireland.

In the urse of the movement, Dubl Universy Gay Society was set up – a group that is still nng today, albe unr a different moniker. 1983 – First Gay Pri ftival. Ireland’s first Gay Pri ftival was held March 1983.

The first event was a one-day affair and aimed at highlightg the levels of vlence agast gay men and women. It me as a reactn to a lg on the ath of Declan Flynn – a 31-year-old gay man who had been killed Fairview Park. In 1988, David Norris – who by then had bee a Senator – won a se the European Court agast the Irish State over the nstutnal stat of the crimalisatn of certa homosexual acts.

HUGE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND VOTE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Norris iated legal proceedgs to crimalise homosexualy 1977 – statg that such laws ntravened the Constutn’s stand on privacy. In June of 1993, Ireland passed Crimal Frd (Sexual Offenc) Bill which crimalised homosexualy. The Civil Partnership Act passed through the Dáil 2010 and gave gay upl more rights than they had prevly been afford.

2011 – First openly gay TDs elected to the Dáil. The 2011 General Electn brought wh another tone wh three openly gay TDs beg returned. January 2015 – Ireland’s first openly gay Mister.

Wh Leo Varadkar g out about his sexualy Ireland now has s first openly gay mister. On his cisn to e out the Health Mister stated that he felt was important for upg vot he would be volved – cludg whether laws on gay and bisexual men donatg blood should be lifted and the upg referendum on same-sex marriage.

IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD

It’s not somethg that f me, I’m not a half-Indian polician or a doctor polician, I’m not a gay polician for that matter, ’s jt part of who I am.

The sprg of this year will see Ireland vote on whether to legalise gay marriage.

A Red-C poll rried out earlier the month showed 76% support favour of gay marriage. Also: Col Farrell: ‘My brother got plenty of beatgs for beg gay’.

GAY IRELAND

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

GAY DUBL

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. The mpaign group Glen – the Gay and Lbian Equaly Now – was found.