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

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

So, Netflix have launched in Ireland. I was pretty excited because most of my friends in North America use it all the time. I signed up for the free month trial period on my lunch break and rushed home to install the channel on my Nintendo Wii. It’s great. We watched the first couple episodes [...]

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.

Here are some of the most popular non-Gaelick links from our Facebook page this year. Lovely!

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

Tomorrow, 10th December, is International Human Rights Day. If you haven’t yet seen Hillary Clinton’s speech to the UN in Geneva this week, here it is. My advice is to set aside 30 minutes to sit down and fully listen to the whole speech.

Benetton has completely undermined their position, their message and their brand by bowing to vitriolic hatred from the Vatican and capitulating to its hate-motivated threats.

The Vatican has successfully managed to force Benetton to withdraw one of its UnHate campaign posters. The image depicts Pope Benedict XVI locking lips with the grand sheikh, Mohammed Ahmed al-Tayeb, of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. But don’t worry, here you can see the image in all its glory.

We won’t dwell on the fact that Tim Walker, Richard Eden and the Torygraph in general are bitter little “people”. Instead, we wish the BBC’s Jane Hill and her partner, Sara, wedded bliss!

Haters gonna hate. But the stream of racist, sexist, homophobic abuse directed towards Fatima Whitbread from Katherine Lynch made me sick to my stomach.

Ecuador is accused of using torture clinics to “cure” LGBTs – predominantly affecting lesbians. A petition to the Ecuadorian government has now been launched.

Welcome one and all (even imaginary bisexuals and trans* people) to your mid-week, once-off “Eamon Delaney round-up”. (Or, to your mid-week, once-off “Eamon Delaney antidote,” if you prefer).

I’ve written about this before, about Glee fans who can’t understand why we don’t see Kurt and Blaine making out at the Lima Bean. But it’s about so much more than that, and it’s a problem that is increasingly a source of tension between LGB people and our friends/families/allies. In Modern Family fandom, too, viewers [...]

Morning folks! Hope you are all suitably refreshed after the weekend and ready to hit the grindstone. I am a tad distracted it has to be said. I have a pile of emails in my inbox about a project I am working on and could I be bothered? Not a bit! It might have something to do with the fact that I am getting hitched on Friday

Stoke Newington secondary in North London has made a name for itself in the world of homophobic bullying. However, not as you might assume. They have started to teach gay history in their classrooms in an effort to stop such bullying, and with some great results.

Last night across the UK, vigils were held to speak out against hate crimes, and to remember those who have been victims. There is no hate crime legislation in Ireland, so in this country hate crimes technically don’t exist.