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Rainbow flags mark start of LGBTI+ awareness week across Cork City

Rainbow flags mark start of LGBTI+ awareness week across Cork City | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The flag was first flown in Cork in 2014 and was a donation from the late San Francisco mayor Ed Lee. 

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Vatican ban on same-sex blessings ‘deeply disappointing’, says LGBT Ireland

Vatican ban on same-sex blessings ‘deeply disappointing’, says LGBT Ireland | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Church ‘cannot have the power to bless unions’ – Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

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'I pushed being gay deep down inside me' - Eurovision hopeful Lesley Roy

'I pushed being gay deep down inside me' - Eurovision hopeful Lesley Roy | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

It's almost difficult to remember now the years when Ireland had to struggle not to win the Eurovision. We tried everything from Charlie McGettigan to Niamh Kavanagh but for years nothing seemed to work.

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Meet the First Same-Sex Couple to Marry in Northern Ireland

Meet the First Same-Sex Couple to Marry in Northern Ireland | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards will be the first same-sex couple to marry in Northern Ireland, a milestone activists have been anticipating for years.

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When will Ireland become a top LGBT travel destination?

When will Ireland become a top LGBT travel destination? | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Ireland was the first country in the world to vote in favor of marriage equality, but have you ever seen it advertised as a major LGBT destination? No, neither have we. If there's more to Irish life in 2019 than The Quiet Man, Golf Trips and the Cliffs of Moher then it would probably do us no harm to say so.

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Panti Bliss leads Irish float in front of half a million people at Sydney's Mardi Gras

Panti Bliss leads Irish float in front of half a million people at Sydney's Mardi Gras | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Panti Bliss dazzled the crowds at Sydney’s Mardi Gras last night as she led the Irish float through the city as 500,000 people cheered on.

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LGBT PRIDE and joy - the best of events and festivals for all ages across the country

LGBT PRIDE and joy - the best of events and festivals for all ages across the country | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
LGBT PRIDE and joy - the best of events and festivals for all ages across the country
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VIDEO: What now for NI's gay community? Arlene Foster becomes the first DUP leader to attend an LGBT event

VIDEO: What now for NI's gay community? Arlene Foster becomes the first DUP leader to attend an LGBT event | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Arlene Foster's attendance at a Pink News event has been hailed as a positive one.
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The message we sent to women and gay men in 1980s Ireland

The message we sent to women and gay men in 1980s Ireland | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Declan Flynn's Dublin murder and Ireland's shameful reaction - the terrifying message we sent to gay men and women

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LGBT pupils 'feel unwelcome at school'

LGBT pupils 'feel unwelcome at school' | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Almost half of LGBT young people have experienced bullying due to their sexual orientation, research finds.
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VIDEO: Cork LGBT Pride Festival kicks off at Fitzgerald Park

VIDEO: Cork LGBT Pride Festival kicks off at Fitzgerald Park | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Events continue for the week culminating with the 12th Annual Cork Pride Parade on Sunday, August 6. Today's event in Fitzgerald Park this was an afternoon of family fun, rainbow festivities and activities.  Even the sheep were having a good time!

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LGBT Helpline Highlights Impact of Social Media on LGBT Community

LGBT Helpline Highlights Impact of Social Media on LGBT Community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Growth in numbers coming out online, according to support service Growing numbers of LGBT people are choosing to come out online, according to the LGBT Helpline, the national support service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. The organisation held an event with eir yesterday, which focused on the role of the internet in the…
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Call for more LGBT foster carers in Derry

Call for more LGBT foster carers in Derry | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
A fostering agency wants more gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender single people and couples to consider becoming foster carers in Derry.
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Same sex Cork couple make history in Republic

Same sex Cork couple make history in Republic | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Two women from Cork have become the first same sex couple in the Republic to be both legally recognised as the parents of their babies from birth.

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Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards

Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland

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Older, wiser, and still proud: Dublin Pride and Age Action initiative targets LGBT elders

Older, wiser, and still proud: Dublin Pride and Age Action initiative targets LGBT elders | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Age Action is teaming up with Dublin Pride for a series of monthly events for older LGBT people, in an effort to create social and political awareness around a “forgotten demographic”.

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Dublin theatre festival review – gay clubs, glass houses and Greek tragedy

Dublin theatre festival review – gay clubs, glass houses and Greek tragedy | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Marina Carr’s Hecuba probes a mother’s grief, family secrets unravel in The Beacon and audiences are immersed in 80s LGBT+ Dublin in Faultline

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LGBT life in rural Ireland: ‘You can feel like you’re the only one’

LGBT life in rural Ireland: ‘You can feel like you’re the only one’ | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

‘You might think that people are staring at you a lot and talk about you a lot more’

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Dublin's first ever Transgender Pride Parade marched the route in memory of people who began Irish pride movement

Dublin's first ever Transgender Pride Parade marched the route in memory of people who began Irish pride movement | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Marchers took to the rainy streets on the route from Liberty Hall to Fairview Park to highlight trans issues like healthcare, transphobic violence and access to PrEP. Marchers followed the route to where Declan Flynn was killed in a homophobic attack in 1982, and later where a protest was held by hundreds over the violence and lack of justice.
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LGBTI+ plan ‘will make us the best place in world to grow up’

LGBTI+ plan ‘will make us the best place in world to grow up’ | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Ireland is the first country to launch a strategy aimed at making schools more inclusive for LGBT young people. Katherine Zappone, children and youth affairs minister, launched the programme yesterday in Meeting House Square, Dublin. It aims to reduce bullying and discrimination against young gay
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‘As a gay man, escaping the North was a matter of life and death’

‘As a gay man, escaping the North was a matter of life and death’ | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
‘Smilin’ Through’ the Troubles: ‘Growing up in a house ruled by bigoted matriarch meant home-life was just as much a warzone’
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'A monumental change': how Ireland transformed transgender rights

'A monumental change': how Ireland transformed transgender rights | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Since 2015, Ireland has allowed people to change gender by self-declaration. Now Holyrood and Westminster are considering following suit
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Move Over DiCaprio and da Vinci — Here’s Ireland’s Leo

Move Over DiCaprio and da Vinci — Here’s Ireland’s Leo | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
As America and Britain reel backward, Ireland’s first openly gay, half-Indian, youngest-ever prime minister is leaping toward the future.
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LGBT asylum seekers face hurdles seeking 'dream life' in Ireland

LGBT asylum seekers face hurdles seeking 'dream life' in Ireland | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

When Afef arrived in Ireland from Tunisia in early 2015 she could not believe her luck at being able to go safely to gay bars and be open about her sexuality. In her home country she had been forced to hide the fact that she was a lesbian from her family, her friends and, most importantly, from the authorities as same-sex relationships are illegal in Tunisia and punishable by three years imprisonment.

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Ireland looks set to elect gay premier in social, generational shift

Ireland looks set to elect gay premier in social, generational shift | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it
Ireland is on the verge of a huge generational change in its political life with the likely election of Leo Varadkar as its next premier -- a move that would give the once-staunchly Catholic country its first openly gay leader and its first of Asian immigrant descent.
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