Category Archives: LGBT
The Bear Truth: A short film by Anna Rodgers celebarates this year’s GAZE Film Festival’s opening film Animals
LGBT Noise: March for Marriage: Dublin – Sunday August 18th 2013.
LGBT Noise are also looking for stewards to help assist during the March for marriage on August 18th and they are holding training evenings at 715pm on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th August in Outhouse, 105 Capel Street, Dublin.
Acting Out drama group production of ‘gay : dad’ at Outhouse Theatre, Dublin 24th – 26th July.
Here is a short promo video made for the production of gay: dad.
It is wonderful to see Outhouse being utilised for a space for drama and I look forward to more productions by the Acting Out group.
More information on Acting Out group’s productions are on their Facebook page here and they are also on Twitter @ActingOutGroup
Culture Shots Radio Show highlights the 4th European transgender council and trans rights in Ireland
A recent Culture Shots radio show centred on the 4th Transgender Council Conference which was held in Dublin City University in September. The show which is presented by Gillian McInerney features extracts from the key note speeches by Minister Joan Burton and by Senator Katherine Zappone. The speech extracts are only a few minutes long but each contain a snapshot of where the current Irish government stands in relation to Trans rights in Ireland and Senator Zappone’s speech speaks about law but also of the importance of Trans men and women’s individual rights in relation to law.
The radio show also includes Gillian’s interview with Sinead Dolan who was one of the volunteers at the conference. Sinead wrote this blog post about the conference and within it she writes about the importance and the need of the entire LGBTQ community supporting Trans* rights, which is also something I very much agree with.
The final part of the Culture Shots show features TENI’s Vanessa Lacey bringing the delegates together through song in a moment of spontaneity. Vanessa is such an inspiring speaker, someone whose personality always shines through and that moment sums up what makes her a great ambassador for trans rights in Ireland and beyond.
The extracts are only a tiny part of the speeches, workshops, discussions and meetings that took place at the TGEU conference and since that weekend in September TENI and other Irish Trans rights groups such as the TEA Collective have been involved in other awareness and education campaigns and a public rally at Dail Eireann have taken place in Dublin. What is important in the work of TGEU, TENI and other Trans Rights groups is that they are forward moving and proactive. The Culture Shots radio programme on Near FM shows clearly how Irish media can help in the positive public awareness of Trans rights.
Near FM’s website is here which features links to all their shows and various podcasts. Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) website is here.
The Culture Shots show is below. Clip on the individual links to hear the specific parts referred to above.