Posts Tagged ‘ Gay Community ’

The Rebel Awards 2010

September 22, 2010
By Stephen
The Rebel Awards 2010

The Nominations opened yesterday for the Rebel Awards 2010. The Cork Rebel Awards were set up as a collobartion between the Cork Gay Project, Cork Pride & GayCork.com in order to acknolwlege LGBT people and organisations for their contributions, work and support to the Cork LGBT community. This year they are inviting everyone to nominate people and organisations whom you feel should win an award. The Categories are as follows: The ‘Straight-Up’ REBEL Award This award recognises a non-LGBT individual who...

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Monday Links – 10/08/09

August 10, 2009
By Stephen
Monday Links – 10/08/09

Image by Chris Gin via Flickr Well its Monday, its been a hectic week at home for me, no travelling at least, so I have a few things for you to check out. Tommy, of TrustTommy, had an excellent article in the Times of all places! Fair play! Irish Web Awards Nominations are open! Easkey, Co Sligo went gay for a day! Some cool cards on CurlyDena’s blog Gamma has a video of Billy Connolly on Catholicism...

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Who Represents Me?

July 2, 2009
By Stephen
Who Represents Me?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yesterday I was invited to become “a fan” of yet another Irish LGBT group. This time it was EQUALS, which is a direct action group. Everyone seems to think that every LGBT person supports LGBT Noise, EQUALS, Marriage Equality etc, but we don’t. Firstly lets look at LGBT Noise. They have the T in their for Transgendered yet I never heard them ever calling for a change in the law in relation to...

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Marriage is an antiquated, failing institution based on inequality and traditional roles.

April 30, 2009
By Stephen
Marriage is an antiquated, failing institution based on inequality and traditional roles.

Image via Wikipedia The above title is a quote from Mark Simpsons article on Gay Marriage on Comment is Free in today’s Guardian. In his article “Gay people don’t need marriage” he argues that gay marriage “zealots” have gotten carried away and need to look at what the majority agree with. As he points out Civil Unions which giver nearly the same rights as marriage, for example Civil Partnerships in the UK, have the backing of “liberal and conservative,...

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Is it right that a Political Party Owns LGBT.ie???

February 27, 2009
By Stephen
Is it right that a Political Party Owns LGBT.ie???

Image via Wikipedia I was contacted after a tweet by Mark Coughlan about the ownership of a .ie domain. The Domain in is LGBT.ie and it is, according to the IE Domain Registry owned by the Irish Labour Party and is registered as a “Discretionary Name” If you visit the site you get redirected to Labours homepage? Now is it right that a political party owns this and redirects it to their site? I don’t think so? I am...

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Two Months, Too Soon?

January 11, 2009
By Stephen
Two Months, Too Soon?

Image by stephen.spillane via FlickrI blogged recently enough about the time I told my boyfriend I loved him. I have also told it to a few people. A comment I hear alot is “Do you think it is too soon for that?” I must admit, it was starting to niggle me from the back of my head. But last night I went out (and didnt drink) and met with a friend from New Jersey. He was with two of...

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GALA Awards

January 8, 2009
By Stephen
GALA Awards

Image via WikipediaI saw an ad for this in this months GCN and there is a thread on GayCork.com about it too. So what are they? From the blurb The GALAS are Ireland’s first annual awards celebrating contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) life in Ireland. We want you to tell us who you think deserves to be honoured for their contributions in 2008 at our very special awards ceremony later this year. The nomination process is...

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Gay Pride… Revistited.

April 12, 2008
By Stephen

Last month I wrote a post about Gay Pride, was it Triumphalist or rembering a historical battle for human rights? . The Daily Bohomian yesterday wrote a piece that towards the end touches on Gay Pride and raises some interesting points. He wrote I believe that there’s a fine line between showing off to deliberately make people feel intimidated and in showing pride just as there’s a fine line between not understanding gay people and being a thuggish bigot...

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