Category: Ireland
Irish Government must respond to anti-gay laws in Russia
The human rights situation in Russia for LGBT people is deteriorating. GLEN have written to the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamonn Gilmore TD., to urge him to respond on behalf of the Government and the Irish people, and to make clear to both Ireland and the rest of the world the measures it intends to take against the new repressive legislation.
Are your local gay bar saying “nyet” to Russian vodka ?
It all started with gay bars in Chicago saying “nyet” to Russian vodka and are about spreading around LGBT worldwide.
You can call the Irish president gay and get away with it
“The current president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, is a poet, acknowledged homosexual, and nearly as outspoken as his predecessors,” it was announced on the Forbes website.
Forbes issues official apology to President Higgins for ‘homosexual’ claim
A top international business magazine has apologised to President Michael D Higgins for publishing a story on its website in which it claimed he was an “acknowledged homosexual.”
Church group sorry for pope ‘gay lobby’ report
A key Latin American Catholic Church group said Wednesday it was sorry about the “confusion” caused by the publication of members’ accounts of a meeting with Pope Francis where he is quoted as lamenting a “stream of corruption” in the Roman Curia and a gay lobby in the Vatican.
The Reality of Homophobic Abuse in Ireland
A vicious late night assault in Dublin underlines the reality of anti-gay violence in Ireland, an evil which is being fuelled by opponents of same-sex marriage.