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Comment on Mapping 100 Years of Belfast: Gay Life – Part II by SEÁN ÓG GARLAND

SEÁN ÓG GARLAND — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:53:19 +0000

interesting pass history of NIGRA now it seems now day’s NIGRA is not longer an activist movement but a very small lobby group ..it was proved when with their new banner they were not even on the streets to protest against the Anti Gay Racist BNP giving air time by the BBC.. Queer freedom is a long way of we have not won yet if NIGRA was at the BBC demo it would of seen for it’s self who side the PSNI is really on and it is not our’s….yours in Queer freedom Brothers and sisters …seán óg garlandx

Comment on Mapping 100 Years of Belfast: Gay Life – Part I by maisie

maisie — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:03:05 +0000

Hi Jeff,

How are you? I found this website when i was googling my dads name and just wondered if you remembered the night in belfast when dad and louise came to your house for dinner and they had curled louises hair? Its the only memory i have of you.

Also we were thinking dad could be called President in Exile Richard Kennedy rather than former life president. And I am more than a baffling side effect of straightness!!!

Hope your having a ball

Kind regards,

Maisie Kennedy

Comment on Mapping 100 Years of Belfast: Gay Life – Part I by Bundweite

Bundweite — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:52:45 +0000

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Comment on Mapping 100 Years of Belfast: Gay Life – Part I by Frank Gallen

Frank Gallen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:55:27 +0000

Jeff

Thank you for chronicling the developments experienced by gay people over the last 30+ years in Northern Ireland.

I don’t need to note that the determined Jeff Dudgeon made things happen against apparent insurmountable obstacles but it deserves to be stated.

Thanks, too, for Doug Sobey’s understated resilience.

I am grateful – even if the caravan appears to have moved on.

Comment on Gay humanist mag rises from the ashes of controversy by Barney John

Barney John — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:18:07 +0000

Great mag. Recommend it. Just read the December one and it’s interesting. Worth supporting.

Comment on Advice to the LGBT community re Curtis Street, Belfast by TheEditor

TheEditor — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:51:49 +0000

Dear NIGRA,

I am a bit worried about this police warning. (Glad they gave it, okay, but some of the details puzzle me a bit).

Firstly, I walked this afternoon the entire length of Curtis Street, which is a narrow lane on one side of the Art College, with on the other side (it is quite a short street) only the offices of the Belfast Education & Library Board (which also looks over Academy Street), Calvary Centre of the Salvationists, and the back wall of several other offices. There are no businesses in Curtis Street.

So who are the “local business” (notice the phraseology: could this be amended from “a/one local business”?) who are increasingly complaining?

As soon as I mentioned this, Tracy immediately referred to a new restaurant called 27 which has apparently opened in Talbot Street. I naturally fell to wondering if this might be another case of
(a) a nasty little homophobic crank who doesn’t like queerSeanywhere;
(b) an incomer hoping to benefit from the increasing visibility of this Quarter (mostly created by the presence of us Gay people), glad to take Gay money, but firmly against Gay visibility;
(c) another “Christian” initiative; or
(d) who knows?

So I’m hoping in the next few days to investigate this new eatery. Will report further.

Cordially,

P A