The last week was a particularly eventful one for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
On Saturday almost 30,000 people paraded in the annual pride parade in Dublin, second only to the St Patrick’s Day procession as the largest parade in the capital. Then on Sunday the weekend Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore declared “The right of gay couples to marry is, quite simply, the civil rights issue of this generation, and, in my opinion, its time has come.”
LGBT Noise would like to announce the March for Marriage 2011.
Civil Partnership is NOT equality.
We ask you, your friends, your family and your co-workers to MARCH FOR MARRIAGE in Dublin on Sunday 14th August 2011.
We will be meeting at 3pm by city hall at the top of Parliament street.
Bring as many people as you can and let’s make some Noise about inequality. Civil Partnership is NOT equality and we need to make sure that our voices are heard by the Government, we need to make sure that we will not have to settle for less than full equality and equal rights for ALL.
There are over 75 countries in the world today where it is a criminal offence to be gay. These countries punish women, men and children because of their sexuality and in seven countries the punishment is death.
An International Day Against HOmophobia (IDAHO) provides a platform for everyone to make a powerful statement to demand improvements for the quality of life for LGBT people.
Although I probably won't be buying this, I'm a bit past that stage in my life, I think this is a great thing and every school should have a copy of it.
America’s gay and lesbian military personnel are today celebrating the over-turning of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ (DADT), which banned homosexuals serving in the armed forces for the past 17 years.
In a surprising 65-31 vote at the weekend, the U.S Senate repealed the law, which introduced by Bill Clinton in 1993 as a semi-compromise to allow gay soldiers to serve in a military as long as their sexuality remained ‘undisclosed’.
President Obama wrote on Twitter: "By ending 'don't ask, don't tell', no longer will patriotic Americans be asked to live a lie in order to serve the country they love."
Serving gay soldiers were at risk of being outed by comrades, senior officers, spurned lovers, or accidentely on social networking sites and so far more than 13,000 have been dismissed since 1993.
Thankfully, gay soldiers who were forced out of the military will be now allowed to re-enlist.
(c) GCN
