Hey everyone! GLYNI is hosting a public workshop tomorrow evening for Pride, called ‘Signs and Symbols’! We will be painting banners, signs, t-shirts, all for use in Saturday’s Pride Parade. Everyone is welcome, LGBT or not, so bring your friends and family!
The event is being held in the Black Box, and begins at 7pm. There are no age restrictions!
Tags: arts and crafts, GLYNI Events, pride, signs, symbols, workshop
The 20th Belfast Pride was launched successfully last night in Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast. With hordes of priders there for the event, an enlightening and entertaining documentary ‘Pride, Sweat and Tears’ was launched (featuring, in part, yours truly ;P).
The documentary covered the history of Belfast Pride, and I was particularly impressed with some of the old footage from years gone by. With contributions from many members of the Pride committee past and present, as well as high-profile political leadership views from former Mayor and current MP for East Belfast Naomi Long, as well as current Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, the documentary covered all aspects of Pride, from the reasons, to the organisation, to the protestors, to the fun and events… it really is not to be missed!
It is getting a second showing on Tuesday at the Northstar Science Fiction Night Pride Event, which is at The Roost bar on Tuesday 27th, at 8pm, where you will also get to watch a science-fiction triple feature of Doctor Who, Star Trek: Voyager and Family Guy Star Wars!
Pride 2010 has begun!
A civil partnerships bill has now passed both houses of the Irish parliament and will go to the president to be signed into law.
Ashling O’Brien, a Masters student in University of Ulster, is carrying out research for a dissertation in Applied Psychology. Her research is focused on social support, in-school victimisation, self-esteem and self-identified sexual orientation. She is carrying out this research via an online survey with participants who are between the age of 18 and 21.
For more infromation on the study please visit the following link:
Are you a man who has sex with other men? Then join 10s of thousands of others across Europe in the largest survey ever carried out in the world. Started on the 4th of June the European man for man internet sex survey (EMIS) is taking place in 31 countries and in 25 languages. By the 30th June over 122,000 men had completed the survey (842 from Ireland north and south). It will end on 31st August
Please click on any of the url
https://www.demographix.com/surveys/3Y9Q-VHRX/37XLDP3J/?IEghn or
Many thanks
Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week is brought to you by BeLonG To Youth Services the national youth service for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Young People. (more…)
Tags: activism, campaign, coming out, film, gay, GLYNI Events, lgbt, rights, website
Belfast City Council has chosen not to renew Mynt’s late alcohol license when it was up for renewal during last week. The council made its decision after police objected to Mynt’s application, based on allegations of customer drug use, assaults occurring and alcohol served out of hours.
Whilst it is certainly true that for a while Mynt got a bad rep due to many police raids searching for drugs. It is unclear whether these raids turned up anything to note more than I imagine you would find in any Belfast club.
A council statement given to the BBC said the licensing committee “took the view that in light of the available evidence, the applicant was unfit to hold a licence”.
A spokeswoman for Mynt said that whilst they are extremely disappointed with the decision, they will be appealing the decision and that since an appeal is pending, the club can continue to trade with its current license in the meantime.
Peace, out!
- Matt
Tags: alcohol, belfast city council, license, mynt, police
An ambitious campaign that aims to change the ways in which young people label themselves was launched last week in the form of a funky teen-oriented website.
The website Ditch the Label (www.DitchtheLabel.com) was ‘virtually’ launched last Saturday night in a co-ordinated browsing of the new site, after being advertised via its original Myspace and the founder’s personal Myspace sites.
The founder of DitchtheLabel is 17-year old student, activist and part-time model, Liam Hackett.
He developed the site primarily aimed at marginalised teenagers looking to break free from social stereotypes based on race, sexuality or gender.
The site aims to challenge negative stereotypes and provide a forum in which young people can share their experiences of prejudice and social labelling.
Based in Manchester, the prodigious teen first launched the website via Myspace in July 2007 and since then, the Myspace page has attracted more than 50,000 visits.
Liam looked into developing a more permanent website that would allow a greater expansion of the campaign.
The new DitchtheLabel site was conceived after Liam secured a business grant from the local Chamber of Commerce, who recognised the site’s appeal and potential.
He was only the second person under 18 in in his region to obtain a business grant.
Despite its early days, the website looks like it will become a flourishing internet resource for teenagers looking to break outside social stereotypes.
Liam told PinkNews.co.uk his own experiences dealing with his sexuality as a primary catalyst for launching DitchtheLabel and how he wished a similar resource existed when he was younger.
“The campaign hopes to change the negative stereotypes associated with labels of race, gender, sexuality, appearance and lifestyle and together, we believe that we can significantly reduce bullying and therefore, increasing self-confidence and feelings of self-worth
to thousands of young people worldwide,” Liam says.
“I myself have been subjected to bullying due to my sexuality and I grew up believing that being gay was wrong and disgusting.
“Since leaving school and meeting new people, I’ve grown to understand that sexuality is as significant as the colour of your eyes and nobody really cares anymore.”
The site has been met with overwhelmingly positive feedback as it is specifically aimed at teenagers who are coming to terms with their own identities and who are forced to interact with a wide range of people.
At the moment, a majority of the site’s supporters are American.
Liam says that school visits may be planned in the future. He also aims to expand the site so that it is largely more interactive and community-based.
Visit the site or get involved at www.DitchtheLabel.com
Tags: campaign, ditch the label, forum, support
shOUT is an important piece of research into the needs of young people in Northern Ireland who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender
shOUT was launched by the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People at a ceremony in Belfast on 7 January 2004. Commending the report, the Commissioner, Nigel Williams, said that the real challenge of the report was to translate the reccommendations into concrete actions..”to challenge views…and rattle cages”.
Other contributors at the launch included Terry Smyth, Assistant Secretary, Department of Education, Northern Ireland. The Department commissioned YouthNet to carry out the research and Terry commented that it was now up to both the youth service and schools to translate the report into actions and to make all young people feel valued for their individual wealth which they could bring to schools and youth groups.
In response to the report, YouthNet facilitated a steering group of agencies involved in LGBT work and 2 Development Officers have been appointed to take the work forward. They can be contacted at the YouthNet office on 028 90 331880 or via email Amanda Stephens or Etain O’Kane.
To download these files you will need to have Adobe’s PDF reader installed on your computer.
shOUT Progress Report 2004/2005 (428 kb)
shOUT Report: Summary (2564 kb)
shOUT Report: Summary (64 kb – Word version)
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