The following questions were presented to P A Mag Lochlainn in his role as President of NIGRA (Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association) from a law student researching for her dissertation, and included are hiSeanswers on behalf of NIGRA and some … [Read more...]

Gay Star was the official publication of NIGRA (the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association) until 1987. NIGRA paid for the printing of the publication and the postage for distribution. All the work that went into the magazine, writing everything … [Read more...]

The following is the text of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association's submission to Initiative '92 / The Opsahl Commission. 1 Social and political change in Northern Ireland should come about by way of peaceful agitation and argument 2 NIGRA … [Read more...]

[Published in the November 2004 edition of Gay Times under the heading Bloody Belfast', somewhat (badly) edited down and rewritten.] In August, four hundred gays, lesbianSeand their friends sat down for a civic banquet in Belfast's City Hall to … [Read more...]

(Commissioned by, and published in the May 2003 edition of Gay Times) [Since this article was written, the Home Office haSeannounced it is dropping Clause 74 and to cries of concern from Stonewall and Martin Bowley QC who served on the working … [Read more...]

These two 2006 NIGRA submissions on suicide (one attached, one below) fill in the background to what we were discussing yesterday by way of the coroner's discretion on inquests. They fell on stony ground but should be pursued perhaps by way of s. 75 … [Read more...]

Gay Geography and history: 1903-2003 Off and on in the 1970Seand 80s, the Europa's Whip and Saddle bar in Great Victoria Street was the city's only gay venue. Despite, at times being the only customers in such a bombed hotel, we were never … [Read more...]