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Review: I ♥ Alice ♥ I

orange — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:28 +0000

Well, reader, if you are anything like this author then the increasing proximity to Valentine’s Day is probably inciting an incendiary cynicism within you. But even the hardest of hearts will fail to resist the warmth and intimacy of I ♥ Alice ♥ I, a piece of documentary theatre that is deeply personal, funny and refreshing.

Alice Kinsella and Alice Slattery are two retired women who live together in South Dublin City. They are an unlikely couple. And for 25 years, they have preferred that perception. Some would call it cowardice to spend a quarter-of-a-century long relationship in the closet. But Alice and Alice are now telling the story of their time together for the first time with disarming candour. To do so from the stage of The Peacock Theatre is unimaginably brave. Their honesty is not forthright, but delicate. The reluctant raconteurs share anecdotes that are often hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking.

The success of this heart-warming and intimate production is thanks in no small part to the actors, Clare Barrett and Amy Conroy, whose understated, tender portrayals of the two Alices gently and deliberately reveal both the nature of their relationship and their choice to reveal it at this time.

So before the overbearing artifice of Valentine’s Day deprives love of meaningful expression for you, go listen to Alice and Alice tell the story of an ordinary life that is retold with extraordinary honesty. Forget overpriced flowers and heart-shaped contrivances because the depths of loving expression find perfect articulation in the nanoseconds when either of the Alices recounts some event of their time together in faithful detail and the other is moved to steal a private glance in adoration (and sometimes reproach).

I ♥ Alice ♥ I premiered during the Absolut Fringe Festival in 2010 and was heralded as a festival gem.

I ♥ Alice ♥ I is undoubtedly a crucial contribution to the burgeoning folio of gay theatre and it is also a seminal piece of Irish theatre, which has been affirmed by the receipt of two Absolut Fringe awards that year, the Fishamble New Writing Award and Best Female Performer (Clare Barrett).

It was also recently announced that writer and performer of the piece, Amy Conroy, has been nominated for Best Actress in the Irish Theatre Awards for her most recent work, Eternal Rising of the Sun.

Gaelick contributor, Bear, recently interviewed I ♥ Alice ♥ I writer, director and performer, Amy Conroy. Watch out for the interview later today when it will be published on Gaelick!

I ♥ Alice ♥ I runs until Saturday, February 18th 2012 in The Peacock Theatre, Dublin. Tickets range from €13-€25 and are available from www.abbeytheatre.ie. Runtime: 55 minutes approximately.

The Abbey Theatre is also hosting an additional event with Senator Katharine Zappone and Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan who will tell the story of their lives and their love on Valentine’s Day, February 14th at 6pm. General admission is €3.

Hollywood Valhalla

CanuckJacq — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:57 +0000

Rock Hudson was the first public “face” of AIDS. Diagnosed in 1984, he disclosed his diagnosis in 1985 and made the general public reconsider the notions they had about who could get AIDS.

If Rock Hudson can have it, nice people can have it. It’s just a disease, not a moral affliction.

- William Hoffman (1985)

A new play by Aidan Harney, Hollywood Valhalla, explores the time between Hudson’s diagnosis and his disclosure: how the first public figure with AIDS decided to tell the world. The two characters are Rock Hudson and his fitness instructor and friend, Toby.

Living in the middle of nowhere, I’ve been unable to make it to the show. For anyone remotely fascinated by queer stories or that muddled intersection between the public and the private, where fame and a person’s inner life meet (and struggle), it’d be hard to find a better way to spend your lunch break if you happen to be in Dublin.

Reviews:

Mesmerising … Harney’s sharp and self-assured script is … the most entertaining, dramatically satisfying two-hander I’ve witnessed for some time.

- Irish Independent

It’s quite an achievement… whimsical, courageous, dignified.

- Sunday Independent

FOUR STARS * * * *

- Irish Mail on Sunday

Harney seems shy to put words in Hudson’s mouth, which leads to a sad kind of silence of a myth unmasked: gone is the zing we remember from Rock’s romantic comedies, the excess emotion of his melodramas, or even the enjoyably breathless pap of the soap opera. Instead, we have a Rock of mumbling realism with a story that deserves better telling; a complicated film star rendered as Movie of the Week .

- The Irish Times

The play’s best scene is the nicely played moment when Toby reads Linda Evans’ lines from Dynasty in a faux-feminine voice and Rock becomes ‘Rock’ the hypermasculine lothario. The interplay between real and fake, masculine and feminine, and public and private is nicely realised as a play within a play that gives formal heft to the theme of performance and roleplay, and both Byrnes and Roche play it beautifully.

- Irish Theatre Magazine

Hollywood Valhalla has four shows remaining (today through Saturday) at 1.10pm at Bewleys Café Theatre. Tickets are €10-12 euro. An extra €4 gets you a soup and bread lunch.

DIT Rainbow Week starts today!

click here — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:22:07 +0000

This just in from our roving reporter in studentville, Soapie:

This week DIT’s LGBT Society will be holding DIT Rainbow Week 2012. With workshops galore, there’ll be speakers on trans issues, a homophobia discussion and a coming out workshop – not to mention bake sales and quizzes.

Kicking off today, Monday, we’ve Rebecca De Havalland, Ireland’s first recognized transgender woman, to speak about her journey. The talk will be held in DIT’s Aungier Street campus at 6pm, with light refreshments afterwards.

The Coming Out Workshop, on Tuesday, will act as a safe, inclusive space to LGBT students. Anyone querying coming out, head down to the Black Box Theatre in the basement of DIT Aungier Street for 4pm.

The same evening there’ll be the Homophobia panel discussion, held by USI LGBT Rights Officer Siobhán McGuire. The panel will feature “Growing up Gay” producer and “Hold on Tight” director Anna Rodgers, and Senator Katherine Zaponne. This will be held in DIT Aungier Street too at 7pm.

Bake sales will take over DIT on Wednesday hitting the Kevin Street, Cathal Brugha Street and Mountjoy Square campuses from 8:30am to 1pm. As the posters say, “Om Nom Nom Nom Nom.”

That evening, at 8pm, Panti will be hosting the Rainbow Quiz in aid of Aware. Held in Pantibar, on Capel Street, it promises great prizes from Nandos, Lush, Havana Tapas Bar, Foam Café & Gallery, Lemon Jelly Café, Burritos & Blues, Irish Film Institute, Lunatic Fringe, DIT LGBT Soc, Stephen Thomas Male Grooming, Pantibar, Boojum and many more! Tables are €25 for 4/5 people.

Louise Hannon and Broden Giambrone of the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland will visit DIT Aungier Street on Thursday, 9th February, to speak about transphobia and their own experiences of it. The talk will start at 6pm, with light refreshments afterwards.

Thursday night at 8:30pm will mark the opening of the DIT Rainbow Week Closing Party. DIT LGBT Soc and DJ Soc will be managing the tunes for the night in SOLAS Bar on Wexford Street.

A fantastic week of events, it looks to be highly informative and a great way of lending support to some much needed causes. I look forward to seeing a few of you there. Be proud!

Ireland’s first sex festival on 25th February

Jen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:30:43 +0000

On the 25th of February ‘Bliss Festival‘ takes place in Dublin city on South William street in South William Place, D2. It will be Ireland’s first sex festival which goes to show how far our green isle has come from it’s previously prudish ways. The ‘Bliss Festival‘ invites us all to ‘Come join Ireland’s first Sexual Health, Freedom and Pleasure event’.

The festival aims to bring together different aspects of adult sex life and ‘Bliss Festival‘ believes:
‘-individual choice
- that human beings are whole beings – body, mind and spirit,
-that our sexual nature is reflected, & experienced, in, and through, all three
- that we have a right to (consensual) sexual pleasure, however we choose to experience it
- that we have a right to accurate & accessible sexual & reproductive health information & service’

Attendees can expect to explore sexuality through talks and playshops over an afternoon and evening where like minded people will get the chance to meet each other and converse in between live music and performers. At 2pm people in attendance choose one of four playshops to attend for and hour and a half which include:

Tantra Massage – Opening The Door To Sacred Intimacy with Lynn Paterson
The Metaphysics of Sexual Energy
Energy Dynamics with Self & Others – Isaac George
Relationships – Emer O’Grady & Derek McDonnell
Special Guest playshop – To be announced!

(Everyone is probably going to go for the ‘Special Guest’ playshop to see what Yoda of sex turns up to dish out some sexy lessons.)

After their sex lesson people will have a half an hour to mingle,chat and check out what the stalls have on offer before choosing a new sexshop from this list:

Spiritual Speed Dating – Fiona Daly
Alchemy of Love – Glenn Sullivan
Yoga for Every Body – Tobye Hillier
An Introduction to Kink! – C. A. O’Hara

Personally I think ‘An Introduction to Kink!’ sounds both profound and useful although ‘Spiritual Speed Dating’ could lead to finding a ‘soul mate‘. By this time everyone should be both hungry and horny so if there’s no rooms about get some food. There will be a dinner break from 5.30pm-7pm. Just enough time to get fed, bed and rejuvinated before the second half of the sex fest commences.

From 7pm-9pm can anybody guess what’s next? That’s right, another sensual playshop for two hours so choose your playshop wisely.

Tantra Massage – Sensual Loving Touch for Couples and Partners – Lynn Paterson
Awakening the Senses – Beth Wallace
Special Guest playshop – To be announced!

‘Tantra Massage’ sounds all well and good unless it’s the kind of tantra massage that was dished out in Sex and the City. Nobody wants to run the risk of a possible ‘There’s Something About Mary’ hair do.

The night concludes at 9pm with a social gathering that provides non-alcoholic beverages, performers,music and a chance to talk to others about your experience at Dublin’s first ever sex fest.

Currently tickets are €55 with concession and are €75 without. Tickets can be purchased online here and detailed information on the festival, performers and guests can be found on the ‘Bliss Festival‘ blog here and on Facebook.

Radio Gae Gae: Listen back to Gaelick on Pride Time!

click here — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:28 +0000

Following the heads-up about our appearance on yesterday’s installment of Near FM’s Pride Time, now you can listen back to the programme in all its glory!

Gaelickers Rachel (HAL) and Joan (click here) are interviewed by the fabulous Sinéad Ní Chonaill after our intro track, “Shady Love” by the Scissor Sisters (about 20 minutes in).

Scarlet for me, scarlet for me ma for havin’ me, etc.

Pride Time Playback feat. Gaelick! (22nd Jan) by Pride Time @ Nearfm on Mixcloud

Gaelick in studio! HAL (left) with Pride Time’s Sinéad.
Photo: click here

More:

blog / facebook / twitter / mixcloud / near fm

Still more:

Pride Time’s Icon of the Week poll this week is between our chosen icons, Gina Carano and Katie Taylor. It’s over on the Pride Time facebook page – So get voting!

Radio Gae Gae: Tune into Near FM this Sunday!

click here — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:30:15 +0000

Eek! We’re starting to feel very nervous here: two of Gaelick’s finest (aheh-hem) are due to appear on Dublin’s Near FM this Sunday, 22nd January, at 5:30pm for Pride Time with the fabulous Sinéad Ní Chonaill.

We’ll be chatting a bit about Gaelick, about ourselves, and generally about all things lesbian, bi, trans and queer in Ireland. Is there anything in particular you think we should mention?

If you’re a Dubliner and you’ve warmed the wireless, you can gather ’round and tune in on 90.3FM. Everyone else can catch the live stream online. Listeners can also text or tweet their comments while we’re on air.

And if you miss the show, you’ve no excuses: the show will be uploaded as a podcast afterwards. So yas better listen!

A bit about the Pride Time programme:

Pride Time is aired every Sunday on Near FM (90.3 MHz) from 5.30pm-6.30pm. It’s hosted by Sinéad Ní Chonaill and is an outlet for the LGBT community with music, gig guides, events and activities and interviews.

The inaugural show launched on Sunday, 4th September 2011.

Figures from the inaugural show have been impressive, and from different stats both through the radio frequency and streaming there have been listeners from all over Ireland, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Canada, USA, New Zealand, Ghana and South Africa.

(So no pressure, then..!)

Currently, Pride Time is one of two radio shows dedicated to the LGBT community in Ireland.

More:

blog / facebook / twitter / mixcloud / near fm

Still more:

In advance of Sunday’s programme, you can listen to Sinéad presenting Left of the Dial tonight. She’ll be playing oodles of indie and rock to shake your bones. The show starts at 10pm. So get listening!

It’s 2012: Bitches be back

click here — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:40:33 +0000

Bitches Be Crazy time. Photo: Una Mullally

Happy New Year, bitches!

Bitches Be Crazy is back for 2012: same Bitch time, same Bitch channel.

If you need a little sojourn away from the sobriety of dreary January, your best bet this BBC: there’s a 99% chance you will lose your shit every time a track starts playing, the music is just that good.

Confirmed DJs on the night are Alex, Una, Bucko, plus the fabulous Joey Kavanagh (@thebubbleboy and sphericalnotions).

The usual rules apply: BYOB. Doors 9pm. €5 before 10pm, €10 thereafter.

Here’s what you missed last time around: Bitches Be Hazy.

And here’s a guess at the kind of sounds you’re likely to hear. Maybe. (It’s just a guess.)

Azealia Banks – “212” ft. Lazy Jay

Scissor Sisters “Shady Love” ft Azealia Banks

Adrian Lux feat. The Good Natured – “Alive” (Basto Radio Edit) (Official Video)

Rihanna – “We Found Love” ft. Calvin Harris
(Skip to 48 seconds in.)

SBTRKT – “Pharaohs” ft. Roses Gabor

DJ Earworm Mashup – “United State of Pop 2011” (World Go Boom)
(Maybe.)

You may hear these sounds. Or you may not. I don’t know.

You’ll just have to head along to find out whether my predictions are correct!

Casting the net: Online dating 101

HAL — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:36:46 +0000

Here’s another article from one of our new writers, Tole. Enjoy!

As a young gay (and by young, I mean, fresh off the train, wearing short pants, clutching my suitcase with a wide eyed stare as I entered an unknown village), I had great expectations that I would soon be charming women every night of the week and giving off the impression that I was some type of modern day Casanova.

So when this did not come to fruition, I was greatly surprised. It took me a while to figure out the root of my failings, but when I did, it came down to a number of crucial things:

It appeared I had an inability to converse with people, something I had hitherto excelled at.
When I did speak, it was often nonsensical and delivered at a very high pitch so that it seemed I was interested only in communicating with seagulls.
Anybody I did manage to talk to with any motive of intent, was already coupled up or proved stranger and more high pitched than I was. And I couldn’t be dealing with that sort of competition.

So a chance purchase of an L Word box set (which I figured would surely teach me everything I needed to know) also happened to contain three months free membership for an online dating site. This little card gave me some hope that I could navigate the world a bit better from the comfort of my home, where I had control over my actions, free of occasional squawking noises and the like.

So, I now had the opportunity to be an ever dashing charmer with an unlimited amount of messages to woo these potential suitors with. No “soz babes I’m outta messages, if you fancy a chat add me on msn-smiley face, lol” woes for me.

However, the stress of it all proved too much after a while. The excellent banter back and forth only for it stop abruptly, the occasional drink with somebody who turned out to be incredibly boring, or bumping into that hot girl you took seven hours composing a two line message to, only to never hear anything back. My nerves quite simply weren’t able for it. And so I hung up my online lady killer boots which to my shame, never managed to get all that dirty for a finish.

Having upped my social skills a tad since then (I don’t come off as wanting to live my life on a beach anymore), I recently found myself back online. It may have been exam time. It may also have been the month I discovered a love for the unnecessary filing of all my photos in order of the number of people present in them. But if I was to be at my computer ‘revising’, I thought somebody should at least be entertaining me while I did so.

And it certainly was entertaining for a while, as I discovered that many of the same lovely faces were still online. Yet like a solid old man’s pub, they had refused to move with the times. Many of them were still “just out of a relationship, only looking for fun” (which to be fair, is always a bit of a winning statement), “still really new to this, not sure what to say” (really? But it’s three years later), while the amount of people (“new age kids” I like to call them) who spell their names with both letters and numbers was astonishing.

Of course, there were also a few gems of people in there, fun and witty. However, for the most part, it would seem that we all sat around logged in, yet not saying much. I mean, I can’t prove this for definite, just that the masses didn’t seem to be messaging me, which I found strange, given that I had personally awarded myself 4/5 stars for my new profile.

Whatever about communicating with people in real life, I’ve always found that online, you have time to think, to open and reply to a message with a great answer, and if not great, at the least, relatively engaging.

Some of the profiles provide great material to start a conversation, plenty of interests and quirks that can arm you with something slightly original to say. But yet, a lot of people continue to open with ‘Hi, how are you?’. Given that we live in Ireland, surely it’s only natural that a response to this would also include a comment on the weather, followed by an inquiry into the health of the person’s ailing grandmother and before you know it, everybody has lost interest.

I gradually became more annoyed by these messages. I just couldn’t bring myself to reply to them. And so, I asked that, if people were feeling charitable enough to message me, then dear Jesus, make it worthwhile and something that I might actually respond to.

It has kind of worked, I think. Or else I just come across as so demanding that the ‘hi how are you lol’ people, a wily bunch, know I’m probably not worth the effort. But I’ve had some good banter with a few people and have progressed towards ‘friendly acquaintance’ stage.

And just so you know, things online move like this these days:

As usual you chat, and this can range from a few hours, days or weeks.
You then become friends on Facebook to prove that neither of you is insane/a murdering kidnapper.
You may find out that you have a few friends in common, but that you are not in fact related. Good to go.
You maybe meet for a drink and get on well. Excellent.

This is surely the holy grail of online dating. You arrange to actually meet the person. Anything that happens after that is either terrifying or pleasant (it can always go either way to be honest).

The important thing is, that if you plan to while away a number of hours online, then make yourself interesting (although don’t lie about it. If you’re boring, then that’s just how it is), be engaging and if you are really so concerned about the person’s health, or how their weekend went, think how overly concerned you’ll be about them if you actually end up meeting and liking them. Better to open about their penchant for Anne Doyle and the vigil they now they keep for her by their bedside.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Bitches be hazy…

click here — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:27:03 +0000

Bitches Be Crazy time. Photo: Una Mullally

Yesterday morning, in the aftermath of Bitches Be Crazy’s Christmas hoe-down, bitches were seriously hazy.

A gaggle of mates and I gathered to meet at the Spire in Dublin on Friday night, before making our way to the club. I’d been meaning to get to Bitches Be Crazy since I first heard about it in its previous home on Thomas Street. So we were first timers, each and every one of us.

As we stumbled out into the cold wee hours of Saturday morning some time later, none of us would shut the hell up about how great the music was, how great the crowd was, how positive the vibe was, how Dublin – nay, Ireland – shouldn’t have had to wait until 2011 for a club like this to come along.

In the past, we’ve had “alternative” club nights, which have promised much and delivered little. (Q+A, I’m looking at you.) After years of disappointment, our patience has finally been rewarded.

Thanks to all the crazy bitches for throwing an epic party!

And now that we’ve recovered, here are some of the highlights from the night.

(If you missed it, believe me, you seriously missed out.)

Jumper time. Photo: Vickey Curtis

“Deceptacon” by Le Tigre

“I think we’re alone now” by Tiffany

“When you’re around” by Frankmusik

Bitches Be Crazy in full effect. Photo: Una Mullally

“You oughta know” by Alanis

“We found love” by Rhianna ft. Calvin Harris

“Called Out in the Dark” by Snow Patrol

“Africa” by Toto

And finally, the highlight to beat all highlights:

You know a club is run by women when there are ample supplies of toilet roll for the whole night.

Someone taking BYOB very seriously. Photo: Una Mullally

One big room, full of bad bitches

click here — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:14 +0000

Bitches Be Crazy, Dublin’s best queer pop-up DIY night, is back for the holidays! And this time, Bitches Be Crackers.

The party takes place this Friday, 16th December. Doors 9pm. It’s a fiver in before 10pm, and €10 after that. Bring your own booze and get loco. (Bitches be recession-aware.)

According to Le Cool’s Emily O’Callaghan, Bitches Be Crazy came into being after a conversation between organisers Katie Guinnane and Vickey Curtis about the absence of alternative and less expensive club nights.

Originally held in The Jam Factory on Thomas Street, the party has since moved northside. DJs include Ragin, Nic’la, Kay-Z, Corina Gaffey, Ashley, and more.

Confirm you’re attending via Facebook to get the full details.

Here are some photies from Bitches past:

The Bitches’ venue. Photo: Katie Guinnane.

Corina Gaffey at the helm. Photo: Una Mullally.

Ragin on the decks. Photo: Katie Guinnane.

Una Mullally at the controls. Photo: Fionn Kidney.

Bitches get crazy. Photo: Will St Leger.

Some of Ireland’s notables have been spotted. Photo: Emily O’Callaghan.

Supplies! Photo: Nickie Connolly.

A note:

This article title is a line from Kreayshawn’s “Bumpin’ Bumpin’”, later chopped and screwed in “Gucci Gucci”. Listen listen.

BLT Sandwich (12-15 Dec)

click here — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:00:02 +0000

As some of us recover from festive celebrations, we can ease through this week with plenty in the way of gentle socialising, and nothing too taxing. Praise be!

Monday, 12th December

Dublin

TENI Family Support Group. For further details contact vanessa@teni.ie

Tuesday, 13th December

Dublin

Volunteering with the Irish Feminist Network at The Duke, off Grafton Street. 7:30pm.

Wet & Wild Sports Club on ice! At IMMA, 6:30pm.

Kerry

Kerry LGBT Youth Project, for young people aged 15-18 years. Meets at 7pm. Contact (066) 712 1674 for info.

Wednesday, 14th December

Dublin

Running Amach: Indoor Soccer. Places are limited; click the link for details.

IndividualiTy, a social group for transgender young people and those questioning their gender identity. Meets at 5:30pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

BeLonG To Over 18s Group, for LGBT young people aged 18 – 23 from Dublin and surrounding areas. Meets at 7:30pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

Mayo

Shenanigans: ‘Tost’ Christmas Party at Le Chéile Family Resource Centre, Castlebar, 7pm.

Tipperary

OUT Tipp, an LGBT support group for young people. Meets at 7pm. Contact outipp@gmail.com or 087 9100727 for info.

Thursday, 15th December

Cavan

AIM LGBT Youth Group meets at 4pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 1625030.

Cork

Unite* a confidential Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group (24 years and under). Meets at 6pm. Contact info@gayyouthcork.com or (021) 4278470.

Dublin

The Ladybirds, a group for young lesbian, bi and trans* women (aged 14-23 years). Meets at 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

Glória celebrate Christmas at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. 8pm.

Running Amach: Coffee shop hang out at Accents Lounge. 9pm.

Prhomo at Dragon – One year anniversary! Free before 10pm.

Galway

Shenanigans: Over the Edge Reading. 6:30pm at Galway City Library.

Limerick

My Diversity, for young persons aged between 14 and 25 years. Meets at 7pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or 085 2850107 / (061) 310101 for info.

Louth

AIM Young Adults Group, an informal support for LGBT young people aged 18-25 years old in the North East. Meets at 8pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 1625030 for info.

BLT Sandwich (9-11 Dec)

click here — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:00:06 +0000

Events are picking up in pace and frequency as the festive season hots up. Wherever you are this weekend, there’ll be shindigs and shenanigans nearby!

Friday, 9th December

Cork

Cork Action for Equality fundraiser at Chambers, Cork city. Cork Action for Equality: web / fb / twitter / marriagequality

Saturday, 10th December

International

International Human Rights Day commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 63 years ago. Also: fb / twitter / youtube / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Kingdom

UK Feminista’s Muff March in Harley Street, London. 11:30am.

Belfast

Dublin International Gay Social Group (D.I.G.S.) trip to Belfast!

Cork

Linc‘s Craft Fair, 12-3pm. To reserve a place, contact emma@linc.ie or tina@linc.ie

Cork Women’s Fantasy Ball at the Liquid Lounge. 9pm. Tickets eur10.

Donegal

Breakout LGBT youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact lgbt@donegalyouthservice.ie or 085 7411607.

Dublin

Dublin Front Runners at the Phoenix Park from 10am. More information: dublinfrontrunners@gmail.com

Glória’s Great Afternoon Party! at The Rotunda Hospital 3-5pm.

13th Annual Carol Service for LGBT people, families and friends at the Unitarian Church, Dublin. 8pm.

Lick at The Lost Society (formerly SPY), South William Street. Doors 10:30pm. €8 in.

Galway

shOUT! 4-6pm. Phone: 087 7738529/087 3204575. Email: shout@youthworkgalway.ie

Whoop it Up for Liberty! at 6pm in Druid Theatre.

Louth

AIM Youth Group. 1pm to 3pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 162 5030.

Limerick

My LGBT Young Adults Group (18-25 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Rainbow Teens (14-17 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Mayo

SMILY LGBT youth group (14-23 years) meets in Ballina once a month on a Saturday, 3-5pm. Contact smilynwys@gmail.com or 087 1802672.

OutWest Christmas Dinner at Mangos Restaurant, Westport.

Sligo

SMILY LGBT youth group (14-23 years) meets in Sligo town once a month on a Saturday, 3-5pm. Contact smilynwys@gmail.com or 087 1802672.

Waterford

My Big Gay Xmas, Tramore.

Sunday, 11th December

Dublin

BeLonG To Sundays. 3pm to 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 670 6223.

Santa Dash in aid of the Irish Heart Foundation, North Bull Island.

Waterford

Chill Out youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact chillout@wstcys.ie or 086 858 9865.

Wexford

Gay Youth Wexford, a drop-in space for LGBT youth (aged 14-18 years). 4-6pm. Contact gayyouthwexford@gmail.com

BLT Sandwich (5-8 Dec)

click here — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:54 +0000

Perhaps with people saving their energy for festivities later in the month, it’s a quieter week this week – but there are still events happening to keep you occupied!

Monday, 5th December

* tumbleweed *

Tuesday, 6th December

Cork

Linc Book Club meets at 8pm. Under discussion: The Fires of Bride by Ellen Galford.

Dublin

IFN Book Club: Tuesday December 6th, 7pm at Accents Tea & Coffee Lounge. The book is Sisters: The Personal Story of an Irish Feminist, June Levine. Also: Facebook event

Kerry

Kerry LGBT Youth Project, for young people aged 15-18 years. Meets at 7pm. Contact (066) 712 1674 for info.

Longford

Longford LGBT group, meets every Tuesday from 7:30–9.30pm. For more info email hayley@lgbtdiversity.com or call 087 9890336.

Wednesday, 7th December

Belfast

Running Amach: Wednesday Older Women (WOW), starts 7pm.

Dublin

IndividualiTy, a social group for transgender young people and those questioning their gender identity. Meets at 5:30pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

BeLonG To Over 18s Group, for LGBT young people aged 18 – 23 from Dublin and surrounding areas. Meets at 7:30pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

Tipperary

OUT Tipp, an LGBT support group for young people. Meets at 7pm. Contact outipp@gmail.com or 087 9100727 for info.

Thursday, 8th December (Tractor Day!)

International

Horizon 2014: What LGBT rights in the EU? at the European Parliament, Brussels. 10:30am-12 noon. Registration closes 4th December. (Register online). More: LGBT Intergroup / EU Cmsn / FRA / ILGA-Europe

Cavan

AIM LGBT Youth Group meets at 4pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 1625030.

LGBTinC bowling at Astra Bowl. Contact info@lgbtinc.org or call/text 086 249 1821 for more info.

Cork

Unite* a confidential Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group (24 years and under). Meets at 6pm. Contact info@gayyouthcork.com or (021) 4278470.

Dublin

The Ladybirds, a group for young lesbian, bi and trans* women (aged 14-23 years). Meets at 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 6706223.

Panel Discussion: Lesbian & gay parents & families: Experiences & Challenges, UCD, at 6pm.

Running Amach: Weekly coffee shop meet-up, 9pm.

Bitches with Wolves: A Bitchin’ XXXmas at the Sugar Club, Dublin. Doors 7:30pm. Tickets €12.

Limerick

My Diversity, for young persons aged between 14 and 25 years. Meets at 7pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or 085 2850107 / (061) 310101 for info.

Dundalk, Louth

AIM Young Adults Group, an informal support for LGBT young people aged 18-25 years old in the North East. Meets at 8pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 1625030 for info.

Pink Training 2011

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This just in from another of our new writers, roving reporter, Soapie:

Friday 18th November marked the start of Pink Training, the gayest weekend on the calendar (except Pride, of course!).

Organised by Siobhán McGuire, the LGBT Rights Officer for USI, and held in NUIG, the training was a 3 day affair, packed with intriguing workshops and fabulous socials.

A so called ‘Pink Training Virgin’, I couldn’t wait to get my cherry popped.

Friday

The shenanigans started right once we’d stepped on the bus. A DITer, I was among the best of the best, half of the delegates had been to Training before, some even 3 or 4 times. Sat behind a couple of girls in their 1st year in college, I set about getting to know the new faces. It wasn’t long before we were singing to ABBA and playing Celebrity Heads together like long lost cousins – before we knew it were in Galway!

Having been introduced to our Sleepzone Hostel and no-drinking-in-rooms policy, it was time to register to collect our goodie bags and wrist bands. A tidy navy blue kitbag, it contained the programme of proceedings, an LGBT Helpine card, Gay Prom promo flyer, USI pen, and of course the all important BASEBALL SHIRT. (Can you tell I’ve always wanted one?) Oh, and the ‘free-in’ wristband of course, which came in neon pink – perfect for Saturday’s UV Party!

With bunk-beds bagsied and matching blue logo-ed society t-shirts donned, it was time to head on down to the beauuuutiful NUI Galway. Dotted with grand old buildings and clustered with innovative new ones, it was a treat to wander our way down to the Concourse for the Official Opening. And what an opening! Heart felt speeches were given by Siobhán McGuire and Gary Redmond, USI President – intermitted by DIT’s passionate drumming scores. Then after the speeches had received a thorough standing ovation, we played a few rounds of the infamous USI Stand Up Sit Down Game before a packed Table Quiz and a night out on the lash in Galway’s Dignity Nightclub. Now, what happens in Dignity stays in Dignity.

Saturday

Saturday morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed from Hostel orange juice – ya gotta love hostel orange juice – the clan headed back down to the NUIG Concourse for Michael Barron’s keynote speech. A remarkable man, he told the story of how and why he set up Belong To, originally a response to homelessness, creating a safe place for young LGBT people to be themselves and confront their difficulties. Closing his speech, he left us with BeLonGTo’s campaign video Stand Up! Well worth a watch if you haven’t seen it already.

Coming out workshops quite aptly followed Michael’s speech, covering how and if to come out yourself, and then how to support someone who’s coming out. There was also a Trans Closed Space with Cat McIlroy, open only to those identifying as trans to create a safe space for conversation. Other workshops that were covered that day included Implementing Human Rights Standards, LGBT Sexual Health, Revolting Homosexuals with Tonie Walsh, Heteronormativity, Bi Awareness and the unforgettable Billie’s Sexual Empowerment.

With brains stuffed with knowledge we headed back to the hostel to prepare for another night painting the town pink in… Dignity Nightclub. Prepping on a game of Taboo and some fanta with vodka from a tea cup, we headed on out. Once again, what happens in Dignity stays in Dignity – bar “I shifted the titty-wank guy!” (No, not me!)

Sunday

The final day of training, our poor baseball-tee clad gays were getting a bit sleep and emotional, no more Pink Training for another whole YEAR! But nevertheless, we made the very best of our last day. With open spaces for Bis, Trans, Lesbians, Gays and Allies, everybody was catered for.

Then, once we’d gotten everything off our chests, it was time for the Closing Speech. Presented by Siobhán, it marked the end to a brilliant weekend, definitely one to be remembered for some time – if not until next year.

Thanks Siobhán!

DIT, DIT, DIT!!!

BLT Sandwich (2-4 Dec)

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Finally! Tis the season: December is here, the month of World AIDS Day, Tractor Day, Human Rights Day, the winter solstice, and a festival of some kind towards the end of the month. (…What’s the name again..?) But that’s not all, there’s plenty more besides. Read on for this weekend’s festive offerings!

Friday, 2nd December

Cork

Out4Dinner. To book a place, contact emma@linc.ie, tina@linc.ie or info@theotherplace.ie

LGBT Diversity & TENI conference: “Working Together” at the River Lee Hotel, Cork. For details email Sarah at info@lgbtdiversity.com

Dublin

Event to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities at TCD. 2pm. Registration is free, but register with Marie O’Connor at 01-716 8333 or e-mail Marie.Oconnor@ucd.ie

underCURRENT presents CHEESE at The Workman’s Club. Doors at 7.30pm / Show at 8pm sharp! Tickets €15 on the door.

#DubTweetMas : 3rd Annual Dublin Christmas Tweetup at McGrattans Pub, Baggot Street. From 6pm. Organised by @juleser.

T-shirt WAR at Andrews Lane Theatre. 10pm. eur8 in, unless you can wangle free or cheap – click on the link for details.

Galway

GOSSIP monthly meeting. Starts 7:30pm.

Shenanigans: at Connacht v Treviso at the Sportsground. Kick-off at 7:30pm.

Saturday, 3rd December

International

International Day of Persons with Disabilities. PwD in Ireland

Bent Con, California (3 & 4 December). A comic convention. Only gayer.

Start of Amnesty’s Write for Rights campaign: Amnesty International / Amnesty Ireland Amnesty UK

Donegal

Breakout LGBT youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact lgbt@donegalyouthservice.ie or 085 7411607.

Dublin

Dublin Front Runners at the Phoenix Park from 10am. More information: dublinfrontrunners@gmail.com

Running Amach: at IMMA. 12 noon.

Running Amach: Cruel Santa Chrimbo Party. 7pm.

Wet & Wild Sports Club Christmas Party. Starts 5pm. (Newbies meet-up at 4:30pm)

Miss-Match Christmas party. From 10pm in Odessa Club. (Fiver in before 11pm, tenner after that.)

Strand Street Cabaret On Tour. Doors 8pm, Show 9:30pm. €15 in. Get your pre-sale tickets from: Rua Live, 199 Capel St. D1 (very top of Capel St, at Bolton St), email infoatrualive@gmail.com

Panti Bar’s 4th birthday bash.

MotherClub Discothèque. Doors 11pm. €5 Entry before 11:30pm.

Kerry

Kerry LGBT Project/Ciarraí Amach annual Christmas meal. 7:30pm.

Dundalk, Co Louth

AIM Youth Group. 1pm to 3pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 162 5030.

Galway

Bully-proof workshop at shOUT! 4-6pm. Phone: 087 7738529/087 3204575. Email: shout@youthworkgalway.ie

Shenanigans: at the Eye Cinema, Wellpark, and Cocktails at the G Hotel. 6pm.

Limerick

My LGBT Young Adults Group (18-25 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Rainbow Teens (14-17 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Ballina, Co Mayo

SMILY LGBT youth group (14-23 years) meets in Ballina once a month on a Saturday, 3-5pm. Contact smilynwys@gmail.com or 087 1802672.

Sligo

SMILY LGBT youth group (14-23 years) meets in Sligo town once a month on a Saturday, 3-5pm. Contact smilynwys@gmail.com or 087 1802672.

Sunday, 4th December

Dublin

Dykes on bikes! Running Amach: motorbike ride-out. 11am.

In4Squash Squash practice for all levels! 2pm at UCD. A tenner per person. Contact in4squashireland@gmail.com

Running Amach: post-Cruel Santa pub grub & hair of the dog, 4pm.

BeLonG To Sundays. 3pm to 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 670 6223.

Waterford

Chill Out youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact chillout@wstcys.ie or 086 858 9865.

Wexford

Gay Youth Wexford, a drop-in space for LGBT youth (aged 14-18 years). 4-6pm. Contact gayyouthwexford@gmail.com

BLT Sandwich (28 Nov-1 Dec)

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As December approaches, the social and festive events keep a-coming – from Dublin to Cork to Galway, and from Limerick to Leitrim to Fermanagh. So get out there!

Monday, 28th November

Nationwide

International 16 Days Action continues until 10th December. In Ireland, Women’s Aid are running their 16 Days campaign – Events around Ireland are listed at the Women’s Aid 16 Days blog

Limerick

Akidwa/Doras Luimni FGM Awareness afternoon, Limerick. 2pm.

Fermanagh

New LGBT Group for Women. Meets at 7pm.

Tuesday, 29th November

Dublin

Running Amach book club at the Library Bar, 7pm. This month, “Briar Rose and Spanking the Maid”; next month, “The Gathering” by Anne Enright.

Galway

Shenanigans: Amach! LGBT information evening, 8pm.

Wednesday, 30th November

Cork

Meet ‘n’ Greet social evening at The Other Place. 7pm. Contact info@meetngreetcork.com

Dublin

Irish Feminist Network Pub Quiz at Doyles pub, Fleet Street. 8pm.

Running Amach indoor soccer at 6:30pm. A fiver per person.

Thursday, 1st December

Nationwide

World AIDS Day. Open Heart House / Dublin AIDS Alliance / Cáirde

Cork

Mná Mná choir meet at Linc, 8pm (every Thurs).

Dublin

FLAC’s 5th Dave Ellis Memorial Lecture with keynote speaker Baroness Nuala O’Loan. 5:30pm at the Rotunda Hospital.

First Out for women, at Outhouse, 7:30pm.

LGBT Noise Table Quiz at the Front Lounge, 7pm.

Prhomo at Dragon, 10pm.

Glória perform at Christchurch, in aid of the GUIDE Clinic at St James’s Hospital and The Bone Marrow Trust for Leukemia. 8pm. Tickets €20 each. For credit card bookings, telephone (01) 4738314 or (01) 4284395

Leitrim

First Out for women, at the North Leitrim Women’s Centre, Manorhamilton. 7:30pm.

BLT Sandwich (25-27 Nov)

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This is one busy weekend around Ireland, including the Gay Prom, festive highlights, the return of Bitches Be Crazy, regular youth group meetings, and the start of 16 Days. Clear the diaries, folks!

Friday, 25th November

Nationwide

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: Start of International 16 Days Action (until 10th December). In Ireland, Women’s Aid are running their 16 Days campaign – Events around Ireland are listed at the
Women’s Aid 16 Days blog

Cork

Participants are needed for the Ms Gay Cork contest this Sunday! Please come & support. Proceeds go to Linc and Marriage Equality. web / facebook / facebook event

Dublin

Art for Equality in aid of Marriage Equality. 14/15 St Stephen’s Green. Exhibition of works for auction runs until 6:30pm on Sat; Auction takes place at 6:30pm on Sat.

Bitches Be Crazy. 8pm. Fiver before 9:30pm, tenner after. BYOB. Click “I’m attending” for details.

BeLonG To Gay Prom at the Mansion House. Doors 8pm. Excitement!

Plus! The Gay Prom After-Party will take place in Copper Alley (behind the Front Lounge). Admission is FREE with your Gay Prom ticket – (or if your dressed up to the 9s). Doors 1am. The Gay Prom After-Party will be rocking ‘til the wee small hours!

The Electric Disco in aid of Barnardos at Tripod, Dublin, 10pm. €10 before 11pm and €15 after. Running Amach info. 2FM info.

Galway

The shOUT! peeps are looking for people interested in becoming volunteer youth leaders within the shOUT! project. Get in touch if interested! Deadline is 26th November. Phone: 087 7738529. Email: shout@youthworkgalway.ie. shOUT! is a partnership of Youth Work Ireland, Galway with the support of BeLonG To.

Wicklow

Civil Partnership & Co-Habiting: seminar on rights and obligations. Hunters Hotel, Wicklow. Starts 7:30pm. Info at 086 8074999.

Saturday, 26th November

Donegal

Breakout LGBT youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact lgbt@donegalyouthservice.ie or 085 7411 607.

Dublin

Dublin Front Runners at the Phoenix Park from 10am. More information: dublinfrontrunners@gmail.com

Dr Sketchy’s B&W Christmas, 3pm at Le Cirk.

Running Amach – Circle dance afternoon at Outhouse. 4pm.

Art for Equality in aid of Marriage Equality. 14/15 St Stephen’s Green. Auction at 6:30pm.

Strand Street Cabaret dinner & show. 8pm.

Klub Diva Chrimbo Shindig at The Turk’s Head. Doors 9:30pm.

Princess Ri-Ri WAR at Andrew’s Lane Theatre. “My vagina is just as hungry as Rihanna’s.” It’s a Rihanna special. Doors 10pm.

Dundalk

AIM Youth Group. 1pm to 3pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 162 5030.

Galway

Ceramics workshop at shOUT! Phone: 087 7738529. Email: shout@youthworkgalway.ie

Deadline for expressions of interest for volunteer youth leaders with shOUT!. Get in touch if interested!

Shenanigans meet for coffee. 3pm.

Shenanigans at Wildes Bar. 9pm.

The Full Moon Thai Party at Dignity.

Limerick

My LGBT Young Adults Group (18-25 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Rainbow Teens (14-17 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Sunday, 27th November

Cork

Ms Gay Cork at Chambers. Doors 9pm. Proceeds to Linc & Marriage Equality.

Dublin

Running Amach at the Science Gallery. 12 noon.

Dublin International Gay Social Group (D.I.G.S.) monthly Sunday meetup. 1pm.

BeLonG To Sundays. 3pm to 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 670 6223.

Running Amach board games afternoon. 3pm in Temple Bar.

Running Amach film meet up at the IFI (My Week With Marilyn). 4pm.

Waterford

Chill Out youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact chillout@wstcys.ie or 086 858 9865.

It’s time to get Gay Prom fabulous

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Dust off your ruby red slippers and tiaras for Ireland’s Official Gay Prom 2011!

This Friday, 25th November, don your glad rags and join 300 members of Ireland’s LGBT community for the annual Gay Prom which takes place in the luxurious surroundings of the Mansion House Dublin. Guests can expect a night of glitz and glamour, old-school prom style.

A special night in every gay boy and girl’s calendar, guests will enjoy live entertainment, an array of special guest performance, delicious food and dancing until the wee hours.

The night kicks off at 8.00pm, tickets are priced at €40, and all proceeds go to BeLonG To supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender young people in Ireland. Tickets are available from belongto.org, the Project Arts Centre, or by calling (01) 881 9613.

Commenting on the importance of an event like the Gay Prom, Michael Barron, Executive Director of BeLonG To, said:

“BeLonG To’s Gay Prom is a celebration and coming out party for people of all ages. It’s a fabulous party, but not only that – it’s about our community supporting its young people to come out safely and to have all the same opportunities as other young people.

“Because of bullying and exclusion school can be a really tough place for LGBT young people. Traditional school Debs can be difficult for them, with many not going and still more not being able to bring a same-sex partner. Gay Prom is about addressing this so that gay young people know that they are valued and have the same rights as everyone else.”

BeLonG To Youth Services is the national youth organisation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) young people in Ireland. BeLonG To was established in 2003 and envisions a future in which LGBT young people are safe and supported in their families, schools and communities, and all young people are equally cared for, valued, and respected.

BeLonG To provides direct youth services to LGBT young people in Dublin and supports LGBT youth groups all around Ireland. They engage in national policy, training and awareness programs, including the Stand Up! Don’t Stand for Homophobic Bullying Campaign.

Where: The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2

When: 25th November 2011 at 8pm

Admission: Tickets €40.00 per person

Strictly over 18s (ID required).

BeLonG To: website / facebook / twitter / youtube

BLT Sandwich (21-24 Nov)

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It’s nearly all about the capital (Dublin) and the real capital (Cork) this week, but Galway’s representing the Wesht in the what’s on stakes.

Leave a comment or email if there’s anything to add!

Monday, 21st November

Cork

Deadline for applications to Target 1000 positive health talks at Linc. Places are limited. Contact emma@linc.ie or fitzgerald.aileen@gmail.com

Dublin

Running Amach film night at The Odeon.

Tuesday, 22nd November

Cork

Badminton at Carrigtwohill (every Tues). 8-10pm. Contact 086 8479051 for details.

Dublin

50 50 Group Public Meeting.

Running Amach film club at Panti Bar (showing Nikita).

Wednesday, 23rd November

Cork

Phoenix Youth Group meets in Linc (every Wed). 6pm.

UCC LGBT wine reception fundraiser at The Other Place followed by Freakscene goes formal.

Dublin

Running Amach – Indoor soccer.

Women’s Personal Development Course – at Outhouse. 7-10pm.

Book launch of Diary of a Ryde by Joanna Ryde (Kolyn Byrne) at Andrews Lane Theatre (6:30pm).

Galway

AMACH! LGBT Galway community meeting at Seville House, New Dock Street.

Thursday, 24th November

Cork

Up (Phoenix and Unite joint youth group. Every Thurs) at The Other Place from 6:30pm.

Linc drop-in: Fantasy Ball prep, 6pm. Contact Susanne on 086 2132035.

Dublin

Feminist Open Forum discusses zines, blogs, DIY publishing. Web / blog / facebook / email: feministopenforum@gmail.com

Running Amach at The Marvellous Land of Oz, Drumcondra.

Women’s night at Outhouse.

DIT LGBT Soc pub crawl.

Wet and Wild Sports Club : AGM.

Prhomo Thanksgiving: Win Rhianna tickets. At Dragon from 10pm.

BLT Sandwich (18-20 Nov)

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Hold on to your hats, this is one busy weekend for events around the country! Whether you want to party, skill up, meet new friends, remember those who are absent, there is something happening somewhere near you.

Let me know what I’ve left out – otherwise, enjoy!

Friday, 18th November

Cork

Final day of UCC LGBT Trans/GID/GD Awareness Week.

Donegal

Wet and Wild Sports Club : Narosa Surf Weekend (Until 20th Nov).

Dublin

Kissing WAR at Andrew’s Lane Theatre from 10pm.

Dundalk

“Queer Conversation”: Dundalk Outcomers mixed night. From 8:30pm until 10:30pm.

Galway

Pink Training (Until 20th Nov) – Follow #pt11 and #pinktraining2011 on Twitter.

Kerry

NKWL/Ciarrai Amach LGBT bowling night, Tralee. From 7:30pm.

Mayo

Running Amach Purple weekend at Hotel Westport (until 20 Nov).

Saturday, 19th November

International

Conference: Mutual recognition of same-sex couples in the EU in Strasbourg, France.

Cork

Cork Feminista Advocacy & Activism Training. Starts 1pm.

3rd Annual Cork Rebel Awards 2011.

Dublin

Dublin Front Runners at the Phoenix Park from 10am. More information: dublinfrontrunners@gmail.com

Gay Doctors Ireland AGM and Scientific Meeting at Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin. Starts 2pm.

Ceremony of Remembrance: GID/TG Year of Hope 2011 at the Unitarian Church at 8pm

The Panti Show at PantiBar from 10pm.

Mother with guest DJs at Copper Alley from 11pm.

Dundalk

AIM Youth Group. 1pm to 3pm. Contact youth@outcomers.org or 086 162 5030.

Dundalk outcomers youth group (ages 14 to 17 years) meet 3-5pm. Facebook page. Call John on 086 1625030 or email youth@outcomers.org

Galway

AIDS West workshop at shOUT!. Starts 2pm.

OutWest Disco at Menlo Park Hotel. Doors 10:30pm, a tenner in.

Limerick

My LGBT Young Adults Group (18-25 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Rainbow Teens (14-17 years). 12noon to 2pm. Contact mylgbrss@gmail.com or (061) 310 101 / 085 285 0107.

Wexford

Final day of Wexford LGBT visibility week – Details here and here

Sunday, 20th November

Dublin

BeLonG To Sundays. 3pm to 6pm. Contact info@belongto.org or (01) 670 6223.

In4Squash, 2pm at UCD

TENI Media Skills Training. Starts 1:45pm. Free but spaces are limited. RSVP to office@teni.ie

Running Amach film night at the IFI (Wuthering Heights), 6pm.

Waterford

Chill Out youth group. 2pm to 4pm. Contact chillout@wstcys.ie or 086 858 9865.