December 1st is recognised as World AIDS Day. To mark this day, we are sharing some wisdom from LGBT Helpline Volunteer and member of ACT UP Cork, William Kennedy. Will has written the following article to give some insight into the realities of living with HIV in...
Members of LGBT Ireland’s staff and board attended the launch of the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2021 on 28th November. We are excited to see this strategy launched after much anticipation. The launch was well-attended and included speeches from...
Stand Up Awareness Week takes place this year from November 11th to 15th. Stand Up is an anti-LGBT-bullying campaign that involves secondary schools across Ireland. We caught up with Sinead Keane from BeLonG To Youth Services to hear about their Stand Up Awareness...
On 4th November 2019, Simon Harris signed the commencement order for parts 2 & 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015, which will allow for certain same-sex parents to be recognised on their child’s birth cert from 5th of May 2020. In a...
Founder of the new group Queer Writers of Ireland Moxie Lofton discusses the goals of the new collective for queer writers. The group has already held a coffeehouse writing crawl and has other events planned for November and December that aim to connect queer...
Have you ever considered fostering? With the help of Orchard Fostering, we were able to hear from two same-sex couples about their experiences of fostering, both how frustrating and how extremely rewarding it can be. “You will want to throw the...
‘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...
