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MarriagEquality

25 August 09 ireland Comments (0)

LGBT Noise March for Marriage Equality photos

10 August 09 dublin Comments (0)

March for Equality – all welcome

8 August 09 Comments (0)

LGBT Noise Protest for Gay Marriage

Senator David Norris was in fine barnstorming form as LGBT Noise organised another successful protest today, ending up outside the Dublin Civil Registry Office and staging a “break-in”.

6 December 08 photos Comments (3)

Two Book Reviews

Time to celebrate two peerless books that have been published recently, instant classics both. They mark a coming of age of Irish gay identity in two very important, but different respects.
Homosexuality in Irish History: Terrible Queer Creatures by Brian Lacey is that rare beast: an instantly indispensable tome. A simply written, thorough and thoughtful book, [...]

18 November 08 bookreview
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history
ireland
kalcase Comments (0)

Our Lives Out Loud – Zappone & Gilligan

Just came from the launch of Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan’s book Our Lives Out Loud in Dublin. Edna O’Brien gave a lovely speech, her first book launch, she said.
I’ve read the book, and loved it. My full review is here.

7 October 08 book
kalcase
spirituality
women Comments (0)

Mouthpiece – MarriagEquality/LGBT Noise debate – Front Lounge

A lively evening of debate on gay marriage this evening. Lovely to catch up with the good folk of MarriagEquality and LGBT Noise. But Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan stole the show. As they should.

24 September 08 frontlounge Comments (0)

Bootboy: Liberal Bullies

Breda O’Brien, of the Iona Institute, wrote an article for the Irish Times last month with the intriguing title: “Activists using ‘homophobia’ label as a bullying tactic”. She opens her piece by patting herself on her back: “it takes courage to champion traditional marriage, knowing it will unleash invective from alleged liberals”.
So: the plucky [...]

19 August 08 bootboy
equality
homophobia
law Comments (2)

Bootboy: I want to be a housewife

Jay Brannan’s first album “goddamned” is out this week, and is a must-download. He financed it himself – he is one of the growing number of singer/songwriters who are managing to start their careers with money earned from tracks released on iTunes and CDBaby and Napster, and whose reputation spread on MySpace, Facebook and, in [...]

27 June 08 bootboy
gender
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love
masculinity
music Comments (2)

California legalises gay marriage

California gay couples can marry, according the the State Supreme Court, which is great news. There is a threat of a referendum in November to ban it, however, but I imagine the lived experience of married couples will count for something by then. Society will not have crumpled, more people will be talking [...]

16 May 08 Comments (4)