gaysA 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.
A wonderful evening at Crawdaddy the other night – the delightful Jay Brannan came to town. Support came from the endearingly shy and promising Adam Matthews, and, the opposite of shy, fresh from thisispopbaby at Electric Picnic, Justin Bond. It was a Shortbus reunion. I have to say Bond is definitely an acquired taste – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Written for Hot Press 24th July 1997
There was a documentary on Arthur C. Clarke recently. He’s the author, internet guru and visionary, the guy who first thought of satellite communications, who wrote 2001 a Space Oddity, lives in Sri Lanka, you’ve heard of him. They were discussing the future as seen by him in [...]
John Waters’ column in The Irish Times regarding the recent High Court decision to recognise a lesbian couple as a “de facto” family makes for fascinating reading. “Drunk with liberal hubris,” he writes, “have we reinvented the wheel of life, deciding that two lesbians playing House can trump the claims of the forces that create [...]
The following is a Press Release from MarriagEquality:
Over twice as many Irish people favour civil marriage over civil partnership for gay and lesbian people, Lansdowne poll shows.
A new poll shows an increase in the number of people who believe that gay and lesbian people should be allowed to marry rather than just form civil partnerships, [...]
I attended the highly professional and confident launch of MarriagEquality today at the Mansion House. Packed to the rafters with well-wishers, the meeja, and politicians, the various groupings to do with LGBT life in Ireland were out in calm, eloquent, and at times passionate unanimity. It really is a no-brainer – equality or not?
It’s rather [...]
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