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Gay people have equal right to equal treatment

The Equality Commission congratulates Belfast Pride on its 20th birthday this year.

Chief Commissioner Bob Collins commented, “When Belfast’s first “Pride” parade was held twenty years ago people who were lesbian, gay or bisexual had no legal protection against discrimination in any sphere of their life.”

To the theatre, darling!

SPRING! Less spending on oil, gas and plumbing repairs…more on queer artsy goodness, woo hoo! Here’s some great LGBT cinema and theatre coming your way in the next month… Check out CROOKED, a new lesbian-themed play by Queen’s University Drama students Brian Friel Theatre (QFT Building) 23rd-25th March 7.30pm £6/£4 “CROOKED takes an intimate look [… Read More]

What’s Happening in GLYNI?

See our calendar for events in GLYNI over the next few months. We have everything, from the special screening of Stonewall’s new FIT film, to creating an effective Anti-Homophobic Bullying Campaign for NI, from meeting with the NIABF Coordinator to meetings with Family Ties and Brook Clinic, as well as inviting the Children’s Commissioner to meet the [… Read More]

BattleFront

BattleFront is a mini programme which promotes tolerance, encourages diversity and challenges stereotypes. 20 young campaigners have taken to activism to change the world, for different reasons – to stop knife crime, to have a cleaner environment and to end homophobia. The programme airs all this week at 11.30 am so tune in on 4OD [… Read More]

New Report Finds 80% Of Irish Gay People Have Been Victims Of Homophobic Abuse

A new report issued about gay people and homophobia in Ireland has found that 80% of Gay people have been victims of homophobic abuse. This report highlights below the breakdown of the abuse that Gays in Ireland have experienced: * 80% of online respondents had been verbally abused because of their LGBT identity * 40% [… Read More]

Police alert to gay men – Take care of your personal safety!

The Rainbow Project received an anonymous call this afternoon from someone who had met two men at the Union Street Bar on 25 November and went home with them to a house in Lisburn and who was then subjected to homophobic abuse, a serious ongoing physical assault and attempted robbery. The two men in question [… Read More]

Iris Robinson – 3rd strike… should she be out?

Iris Robinson is yet again in the headlines, after comments made in the House of Commons, during a debate on the topic of sex offenders and their jail times: “We all agree that few issues arouse as much interest or concern in the community as that of sex offenders. The sentences served and their subsequent [… Read More]

DUP MP says gay people should seek counselling – Why is this homophobia still tolerated?

Sourced from BBC News 06/06/2008 MLA calls for gay ‘counselling’ The DUP MLA and MP Iris Robinson has called on homosexuals to seek counselling to help them overcome their sexuality. She was speaking on BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan programme following an attack on a gay man in Newtownabbey. Hear her words here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7439950.stm ‘Gay counselling’ [… Read More]