Dublin LBGT Pride Celebration

by redjade Sat Jun 25, 2005 19:54 dublinphoto at gmail dot com

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by redjade Sat Jun 25, 2005 19:55 dublinphoto at gmail dot com

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by redjade Sat Jun 25, 2005 20:00

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by redjade Sat Jun 25, 2005 21:47

Garda campaign to combat rise in attacks on gay community
By Cormac O’Keeffe 22/06/05

The gardaí yesterday launched a nationwide campaign
to combat attacks on the gay community.

The initiative follows a reported rise in recent months in violence, including serious assaults, directed at members of the gay community. Senior gardaí are concerned about the extent to which homophobic attacks are going unreported.

“The launch is an acknowledgement by us that there are problems out there that are very often not reported,” said Deputy Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald.

“One of the difficulties we have is the underreporting of crimes against the gay and lesbian community.”

The campaign, ‘Be Proud, Be Safe’, was launched during the middle of Gay Pride Week, which culminates with the Pride Parade in Dublin on Saturday.


The initiative has been eight months in the making but comes a month after an horrific attack on a gay man in Dublin city centre. Brian O’Callaghan was savagely beaten near Christchurch and was in intensive care for two weeks afterwards.

Chief Supt Pat Cregg, of Garda Community Relations, said the campaign comprised of advertisements in three gay publications, together with a poster and leaflet campaign.

more at
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgAQ9Am262Nn6sgdq-nXlDAyFE.asp

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Garda Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers
http://www.garda.ie/angarda/gay.html

[I couldn't find the above mentioned flyers on the Garda.ie website, they were passed out by the Gards at the celebration in massive numbers, however. Note to Gards reading this, might be good to have the pamphlets downloadable and perhaps have a special web section at garda.ie on this issue? Just some friendly advice, good to see the Gards at the celebration today. Also, garda.ie website index links at the top doesn't seem to work when I use FireFox as a broswer. But does work using MS Explorer.]


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Labour Party, Ireland
- Campaigning for LGBT Equality
http://www.labour.ie/campaigns/listing/20050526152626.html

- Joe Costello welcomes Gardai's 'Be Proud, Be Safe' campaign

“The announcement by the deputy Garda Commissioner, Peter Fitzgerald, concerning the establishment of ‘Be Proud, Be Safe’, a special crime prevention campaign against homophobic assaults, is very welcome and necessary to combat the growing incidences of homophobic crimes,” the Labour Party spokesperson on Justice, Deputy Joe Costello has said.

http://www.labour.ie/press/listing/20050621145844.html

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Sinn Féin calls for an island wide strategy to combat homophobia

Speaking today Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, "I would like to give my best wishes to Ireland's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities for Pride Day 2005. Sinn Fein activists will be joining in the celebrations in Belfast and Dublin.

"While being a lesbian, gay or bisexual person is no longer a crime in itself, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are still treated as second-class citizens in that they do not enjoy the same rights to marry, to form partnerships, and to have families as their heterosexual counterparts. That is wrong.

http://sinnfein.ie/news/detail/10179

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Progressive Democrats
[nothing found regarding Pride Week '05]
http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie/press_room

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Fianna Fáil
[nothing found regarding Pride Week '05]
http://www.fiannafail.ie/new/site/index.php4

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Socialist Party
[nothing found regarding Pride Week '05]
http://socialistparty.net/

Green Party
[nothing found regarding Pride Week '05]
http://greenparty.ie/en/news/latest_news

{ note: if I missed a press release regarding Pride Week from any of the parties, please link to them below }
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Fine Gael
Government Should Move on Partnership Rights Now

The Government should move towards legislating for same-sex partnership rights immediately and give gay couples the equality they deserve, according to Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Equality, Senator Sheila Terry.

“The month of June sees gay and lesbian people around Ireland and the world celebrate Pride. During Pride, it would be appropriate for the Irish Government to fulfil its promise to provide for civil partnerships. Unfortunately we remain one of the few EU states not to have passed partnership laws."

more
http://www.finegael.ie/fine-gael-news.cfm/NewsID/26188/action/detail/year/2005/month/6/level/page/aid/186/


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Also see...
Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
http://www.glen.ie

Gardaí campaign, ‘Be Proud, Be Safe’

by Mike Sat Jun 25, 2005 22:36

Here in the US, most places the St Patrick's day parades do not allow GLBTs to take part visably (allowed to do so if done in such a manner that their "difference" cannot be noted -- but of course it wouldn't be possible to exclude closeted gays anyway).

by i Sun Jun 26, 2005 16:35

under a banner "Couples et parentalité: l'égalité maintenant" [ couples and parenthood : equality now ]
more than hundred thousand took part in the LGBT parade in Paris marching as a carnival from Montparnasse, to the sound of techno music to the Bastille.
The Mayor paris Bertrand Delanoë and Yann Wehrling, national secretary of the Greens, and the socialist deputy Dominique Strauss-Kahn were seen to take part. Bertrand Delanoë has called for the right to marraige for homosexuals. The largest french union CGT was also present under the banner "Les couples doivent avoir les mêmes droits au travail et dans la vie". [couples should have the same rights to work in life].
Presently same sex civil union contracts are recognised under French law since 1999 the so called "PACS law" [civil pact of solidarity], but the provisions fall short of the full "marriage" with "parenthood" rights which have recently caused divisions and polemic in neighbouring Spain.
Organisers for the march said that they estimate more than a dozen thousand [sic] french adults were raised by homosexual parents, and thus juridicial recognition is needed.
The majority of the right wing oppose the right to "marriage" and "adoption" and "parenthood" but have recently backed fresh enlarged legislation against homophobia.

by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group - Indymedia Ireland Sun Jun 26, 2005 16:38

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by mr greedy - mr greedys ices Sun Jun 26, 2005 16:58

were or two gay men who have been at pride with or ice cream van for 4 years but due to the new comt who have said pride is to commerical they have come to a descion not to allow us to put van in parade and to sell ice cream at venue so does gay poeople not hav the right to ice cream. [email protected]

by pink paddy Sun Jun 26, 2005 21:47 pinkpaddy at queerspuds dot ie

While you're busy slapping each other's bottoms with pride, let's remember that the LGBT community has its own questions to answer. Even in the Gay Mecca San Francisco:

"They are among the most maligned groups in society, but when it comes to discrimination, many say, gays can give as good as they get.

A city investigation of S.F. Badlands, one of the largest and most popular bars in the heart of the Castro neighborhood, has added evidence to that argument. In April, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that the bar discriminated against African American customers and job applicants. "

by pink paddy Sun Jun 26, 2005 21:52 pinkpaddy at queerspuds dot ie

Tommi Avicolli Mecca -a longtime southern Italian radical queer activist who helped organize the first gay pride march in Philadelphia in 1972. He is currently a member of And Castro for All, the group organizing the pickets outside Badlands, puts it even better in the SFBG:

http://www.sfbg.com/39/38/x_oped.html

Extract:
"These days, few of us want to smash either institution. Here in San Francisco's LGBT community, standard-issue marriage is all the rage. Middle-class gay men and lesbians buy tenancies in common (TICs), created by evicting working-class people (including people of color, seniors, and people with AIDS) from their homes. About 14 percent of people with AIDS are homeless, yet their plight doesn't generally make headlines the way that the latest chic AIDS fundraiser does. Transgender folks face a 70 percent unemployment rate. It's easy to be cynical.

Fortunately, not everyone wants to become the all-American queer couple next door living in a TIC with a lavender picket fence, an SUV in the driveway, and the credit cards maxed out. Not everyone is looking to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Some of us still believe in something other than making a killing in the stock market or going to Iraq and doing the Bush administration's bidding as an out queer soldier.

Two developments this past year give me hope that the spirit of Stonewall lives on in the Bay Area: the opposition of queers in Oakland to the creation of a gay business district and And Castro for All's pickets against Badlands, a Castro bar the San Francisco Human Rights Commission recently found guilty of discrimination against African Americans. "

And the relevance? The Castro was once known as Eureka Valley - an Irish working class community. No more. Have lessons been learnt? Could this happen in Dublin? Did it already happen in Temple Bar? You decide where the dividing line between Pink Political Power and HUman Rights really lies...

by Critique Sun Jun 26, 2005 22:14

"these days Gay Pride is not just about commemorating the Stonewall riots"

these days Gay Pride is not at all about commemorating the Stonewall riots - pride is as radical as Saint Patricks day

by redjade Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:20

Yesterday was Pride in our fair city. Or “Gay Day” as some lady called it as she passed us setting up on Parnell Square, she ment it in the nicest of ways of course. A very fun but long and tiring day indeed (I think I need a week to recover!). The parade itself went very well. It was by far the biggest and best I’ve either seen or participated in.
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I won’t bother getting into how I feel about the whole politics behind the Dublin Pride festival (some other time perhaps), but instead I’ll leave you with the pictures of the day.

More comments and photos at
http://www.anthonyfinucane.com/archives/2005/06/26/dublin-pride-2005/

by DB Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:16

Follow the link below to see photos

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/315689.html

London LBGT Pride Celebration

by bananaman Tue Jun 13, 2006 21:59

Well discrimination by "the lgbt community" just goes to show what happens when people find a label to stick on themselves or to somebody else whether thats queer, african american, white, upper class, lower class, whatever . Seeing this as discrimination by the "lgbt community" ain't gonna help matters much as you just fall back into the paint/tar everybody with the same brush problem that has disastrous consequences wherever it's found. I think we should be glad to know that everybody no matter what label they stick on themselves is capable of being just as intolerant/ shortsighted/ open/ welcoming as anybody else...i.e we're all the same in the end.