Last February Lucinda Creighton caused uproar when she tweeted her thoughts on marriage equality. So when the LGBT Society at Sligo IT heard about her trip to the college on Monday, they got their thinking caps on and immediately decided that they were going to make their presence felt and show her that they were there, they mattered, and the fight for their right to marry was still going as strong as ever.

It’s LGBT History Month in the UK, but it was across the Atlantic that history was being made yesterday. A court in the United States ruled yesterday on the validity of California’s Proposition 8, the referendum proposal which introduced a ban on marriage equality in the state.

A video of a 14 year old girl asking the people of Maryland to vote “No” on marriage equality has gone viral on Buzz Feed. She spent her birthday with the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and made her birthday wish to lawmakers. Here’s what she said

As you may or may not have read this week, it seems that under current travel regulations in Canada, transgender individuals can be prevented from merely boarding a plane. In a recent post, I wrote about the violations of every day rights faced by T* identified people, and this is a prime example.

This morning BeLonG To Youth Services launched their LGBT Asylum Seekers and Refugees Project. BeLonG To created the Project to make life better for young asylum seekers and Refugees who may be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

Later this year Ireland will have the honour of hosting the European Transgender Forum. It’s a wonderful achievement as it’s due to the amazing work carried out by TENI, Transgender Equality Network of Ireland.

A young lgbt woman in England was told recently that she had to change for gym class in the boys changing room. Being told that is bad enough, but the fact that is was her PE teacher who said it makes it unacceptable.

So everyone’s all annoyed at Cynthia Nixon because she said that being gay is her choice. Maybe it is. Why are we so ready to jump down her throat over it? “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, [...]

I’ve had a funny week. At one point, my government started talking about my marriage not being valid. Not forced divorce, as some people were interpreting it, but it having never actually existed at all. Now, I have plenty of things that prove a marriage took place and exists. We have wedding bands. We have a bad video and lots of awful photographs.

Nothing like an innocent 7 year old girl to strike fear into the very heart of the Christian right. I mean how scary is it to see a little girl ask to join the Girl Scouts?

This summer people in North Carolina will be voting on an anti same-sex marriage amendment which is aiming to take their fight for marriage equality in the wrong direction. True to form, however, people aren’t taking it lying down. Enter Curtis Brown

Yesterday, Canada’s Globe and Mail published a story stating that lawyers, on behalf of the Canadian Government, were set to argue that a same-sex marriage contracted between two non-residents was never a valid marriage in the first place, and thereby decline to allow a divorce.

2011 has been celebrated as a great year for the LGBT community. Of course, as long as severe inequality persists, it’s difficult to wholeheartedly agree that it was a great year. All the same, 2011 has certainly upheld that crucial message; that it gets better. So, grab a cup o’ kindness and we’ll run through some of the achievements of the LGBT movement in 2011.

If the GOP race for the candidacy of the party for next year’s Presidental election wasn’t so serious it would be comedic gold. However, Ron Paul’s newsletters, which seem to surface from time to time, are far from funny.

It turns out that Santa Claus has a lesbian working in the toy factory and, even though she didn’t win the Secrets Ireland hamper, she has taken some time out of her busy schedule to tell us who will get a pressie from the big man this year.

Over the course of the last week, BeLonG To participated in the first ever UN level consultation on tackling homophobic bullying globally. BeLonG To’s work to end homophobic bullying in Ireland was identified as best practice and will be included in a UN toolkit to be made available to governments and civil society organisations worldwide working to help combat homophobia

International Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of the key architects of the Declaration was the feminist and humanitarian, Eleanor Roosevelt.