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Pride Month: Stonewall’s real legacy and the struggle for liberation
The Stonewall riots are one of the major milestones in queer history. The Stonewall Inn was a bar in the Greenwich Village area of New York, frequented largely by the poorest members of the LGBT+ people in the area. The police had a long history of conducting violent raids on the Inn and harassing the LGBT+ clientele. On 28th June 1969, the police once again entered the Stonewall Inn, with the intent of shutting it down permanently. They began to arrest people in the bar, but met resistance.
Australia: Massive YES vote to marriage equality
There was a huge turnout with 79.5% of eligible participants returning their surveys. Of those, 61.6% voted ‘yes’, in favour of marriage equality! That is 7,817,247 people in support of equal rights!
"Jim Wells is not the victim"
Fight4Equality Campaign Says “Jim Wells is Not the Victim” The Fight4Equality campaign has responded angrily to former Health…
No to the homophobic conscience clause!
The attempt by the DUP to introduce a new clause into Northern Ireland’s equality laws which would allow…
Film Review: ‘Pride’
The film Pride is set against the backdrop of the miners’ strike during the Thatcher era in the…
Challenging homophobia in sport
When you go to a football match you expect to enjoy the event and hope your team wins,…
Sochi Winter Olympics: Breaking all records!
Sporting excellence, yes…but also corruption, waste, atrocious workers’ conditions and anti-LGBT laws The 2014 Winter Olympic Games, held…
Pantigate: End homophobia & Catholic right’s influence on RTE
The decision of RTE to apologise and pay damages to the Iona Institute over Rory O’Neill’s comments on…
Money for hospitals – not bigoted crusades!
By Kevin Henry At the time of writing over 7,500 people have signed a petition calling for the…
LGBTQ liberation in the US – more than putting a ring on it
By Audrey Monroe Forty-four years ago at a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, a…