It’s Time

GetUpmarriageequalityvideo

A pro-marriage equality video by Australian action group GetUp has become a Youtube sensation since its release before the weekend, racking up 1.6 million views over four days. The film, entitled It’s Time, charts a relationship from first … [Read more...]

OLD GAY LIBERATIONISTS NEVER DIE – WE ONLY GO TO (HEMP)SEED

Joseph Healy

GALHA (the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association) hosted a talk in Conway Hall (Friday, 13March 2010). Squatting in Brixton: The Brixton Gay Community of the 1970s, was given by Dr. Matt Cook. He is Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, … [Read more...]

Why are we failing our youth?

Thre separate cases of youths committing suicide due to bullying.  Why are we allowing this to happen? Must we allow this list to continue to get larger?   Mother of Suicide Sues School for Allegedly Ignoring Bullying Gay … [Read more...]

Drill Hall – Join the Fund to Save Us

Your support is urgently needed to save The Drill Hall , the UK's leading producer and presenter of lesbian, gay and queer performance. From April 2008, is cutting all of its funding to us.We want to keep our doors open and to continue our programme … [Read more...]

Equality, Dignity and Respect for the Human Rights of All

Join our campaign; do not let our 'elected' representatives voice their own beliefs under the guise of representing you. Get the statement below, create a signature sheet and when you have collected support signatures send it to uSeand we will … [Read more...]

Do you think the Sexual Orientation Regulations were necessary? – 10 questionSeand answers to ponder

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

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 Opsahl Commission

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...]

Going Backwards in Belfast or Ulster’s Peace Progress?

[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...]

An End To The Buggery And Gross Indecency Laws

(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...]