‘LGBT+ Awareness and Inclusion Training: The Basics’ is designed to help all staff within the HSE to develop understanding of how they might make simple changes to their everyday work practices to provide an enhanced service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
Oliver McFeely and Samuel Rodrigues, based in Dublin and internationally, are the creators and founders of Artistic Patterns. They have recently launched the #RainbowChallenge Project as a way to show a visual representation of LGBT+ individuals (what they call the...
Nissu is a Dublin-based singer and songwriter, originally from Brazil. He moved to Ireland 4 years ago to pursue his career and recently launched his first single called “Forever Mine.” The music video for “Forever Mine” features real couples...
Many LGBT+ people will understand the hardships and pain of growing up LGBT+ in a conservative environment. The Promise of Silence tells the autobiographical story of Marshall, who was born and raised in Cork. In the following interview, Marshall discusses his book...
For those of you who do not know me, and I’d expect there may be a few of you, my name is Dermot McCarthy. I’m a qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist that fell into therapy work after a series of events that took me to a dark and tumultuous place in life. I am a...
It’s been over 25 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ireland and not that many years since Ireland led the way by becoming one of the first countries to support same-sex marriage. While there is still a lot of work to do to promote LGBTQ rights,...
On February 27, LGBT Ireland’s chief executive Paula Fagan along with legal advisor Dr. Lydia Bracken addressed the Joint Health Committee on the General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017. Fagan and Bracken outlined LGBT Ireland’s proposals...
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills published its Report on Relationships and Sexuality Education on Tuesday, 29th January. The report calls for Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) to be much more inclusive, acknowledging that “12 years of...
Families have been waiting 4 years for the Children and Families Relationship Act to be fully implemented. Despite the legalisation on same-sex marriage, same-sex parents still don’t have equal rights. Not only is this unfair and unjust, but it also puts children of...
On December 19th, the Joint Committee on Health discussed the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017. According to the Department of Health website, the AHR Bill would “provide for the regulation of a range of practices, including: gamete (sperm or egg) and embryo...
