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LGBT

FactCheck

Debunked: An article claiming LGBTQ+ people have 'lower IQ than average' is fake

7 Apr

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FactCheck

Debunked: Pride flags will not be banned at next year's Fifa Club World Cup

17 Dec 2024

242

The Morning Lead

Harassed and called paedophiles: Librarians describe being targeted by anti-LGBT+ groups

Some librarians fear being physically attacked, according to new research.

Several libraries have been targeted by protesters because they supply LGBTQIA-related reading material

"There is somebody looking you straight in the face and calling you a child abuser," one librarian said

Órla Ryan

12 Nov 2024

17.1k

FactCheck

How Roderic O'Gorman is targeted with homophobic slurs and misinformation about missing children

5 Nov 2024

12.3k

Newtownmountkennedy

Pride disco in Wicklow for young LGBT+ people postponed after 'harassment and threats'

26 Jun 2024

18.9k

Discrimination

Almost a third of LGBT+ community in Ireland avoid certain areas for fear of being assaulted

14 May 2024

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Gender Identity

Explainer: What's in the UK's Cass Review and what does it mean for trans healthcare?

Trans young people in Ireland “currently do not have access to any form of gender identity-related healthcare”, Trans Equality Together said.

10 Apr 2024

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Equality

Greece legalises same-sex marriage, becoming first Orthodox Christian country to do so

15 Feb 2024

8.6k

State Papers

Ireland considered making 21 age of consent for gay people when decriminalising homosexuality

One 1993 document noted that moving from “criminalisation to equality might be too major a change at one go”.

The age of consent for heterosexual intercourse at the time was, and still is, 17 years old

21 was described as "probably the age most acceptable to those who do not want decriminalisation but recognise that there is no choice"

However, if 21 was chosen, "there would be an attempt to portray this country as backward", officials warned

27 Dec 2023

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Human Rights

Russia bans 'international LGBT movement' for 'extremism'

30 Nov 2023

14.8k

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South Korea

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to raise LGBT rights issues with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol

3 Nov 2023

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Pride

Mob storms Pride Fest in Georgian capital forcing the event’s cancellation

8 Jul 2023

29.2k

pride 2023

Aoife Martin: Reflections on Pride 2023 - it really is for everybody

Aoife Martin

30 Jun 2023

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New legislation

Ivana Bacik: 'It is an injustice that children of same-sex couples are being denied rights'

Ivana Bacik

27 Jun 2023

13.2k

LGBT

Thousands march through Dublin for Pride parade 40th anniversary

24 Jun 2023

26.7k

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LGBT

Government to legislate to disregard historic convictions of gay and bisexual men

20 Jun 2023

8.1k

Uganda

Ugandan activists push for sanctions over anti-gay law

30 May 2023

8.3k

LGBTQ

Seanad motion for government to 'keep their word' and disregard criminal records of gay men

17 May 2023

5.7k

orban laws

Fiona O'Loughlin: Ireland can remain a leader on LGBTQI+ rights if it stands up to Hungary

Fiona O'Loughlin

22 Mar 2023

15.3k

garda attacks

Taoiseach: 'National conversation needed on what's driving anger and violence in society'

21 Feb 2023

19.7k

LGBT

'The worst time of my life': Irish research shows lasting harm of LGBT+ 'conversion therapy'

17 Feb 2023

20.0k

Murder

Suspects arrested for murder of LGBT activist in Kenya

8 Jan 2023

6.9k

Edwin Chiloba

One man arrested after Kenyan LGBT activist’s body found in metal box

Updated 6 Jan 2023

32.9k

Father Séan Sheehy

Influential priest says LGBT Catholics are 'as much a part of the Church' as the pope

7 Nov 2022

25.5k

LGBT

Consultation launched on scheme to disregard historic convictions of gay and bisexual men

4 Nov 2022

13.9k

Qatar World Cup

Taoiseach: There 'can't be any inhibition' for LGBT people to attend World Cup in Qatar

27 Oct 2022

13.2k

World Cup

Campaigner Peter Tatchell ‘arrested in Doha while protesting Qatar's LGBT rights record’

25 Oct 2022

22.6k

Bratislava

'Radicalised' teen shoots dead two men at LGBTQ bar in Slovakia

13 Oct 2022

20.0k

Controversy

Reaction to Iker Casillas tweet shows need for 'a lot of education'

10 Oct 2022

8.9k

Regret

Casillas apologises to LGBT community and claims account was hacked after 'I'm gay' post

9 Oct 2022

32.1k

Congress

US politician attends son’s same-sex wedding days after voting no to gay marriage

26 Jul 2022

55.2k

inclusivity

'Great strides' made in match-day experience for LGBT community at Liverpool

22 Jul 2022

3.4k

Pride

Micheál Martin has 'no time' for a UK-style 'toxic' discussion on trans issues

24 Jun 2022

34.3k

Homophobia

LGBT+ groups set to meet with gardaí over recent homophobic attacks in Dublin

10 Jun 2022

13.9k

Justice

Ireland needs new scheme to disregard historic convictions of gay and bisexual men, experts advise

5 May 2022

8.9k

Sligo

Thousands attend vigils in memory of men killed in Sligo

Updated 15 Apr 2022

80.5k

Boris Johnson drops plans to outlaw LGBT conversion therapy

31 Mar 2022

25.9k

Gay Rights

'Lives were ruined': State moves closer to exonerating men convicted of homosexual 'offences'

Updated 6 Jan 2022

56.7k

Universal Periodic Review

UN to review Ireland's record on human rights, conversion therapy and Traveller discrimination

10 Nov 2021

13.5k

Changes

Gay and bisexual men can donate blood sooner under new rules in the North

16 Aug 2021

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