Show Your Support for LGBT Young People!

Join Team BeLonG To this June Bank Holiday weekend for the annual Flora Women’s Mini Marathon!

Yesterday, Wednesday, March 6th, Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD and Cork GAA sports star, Donald Óg Cusack joined forces to Stand Up against homophobic and transphobic bullying in Ireland.

Belong To are back! Yes, it’s that time of year again, when the Stand Up! Awareness Week against Homophobic Bullying takes place country-wide. The official launch will take place this evening, where Belong To’s brilliant, interactive new Stand Up! ad will also be premiered

Despite receiving zero airplay or coverage, “It Does Get Better” by The L Project has nevertheless received over 100,000 views on YouTube and is currently at number 11 on the UK Independent Singles Chart and number one in the Amazon Folk and Rock song charts.

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

BeLonG To (Ireland’s organisation for young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people) has changed the lives of thousands of young people in Ireland. I grabbed a few minutes with Michael at the launch of their new Stand Up! campaign,to get the low-down BeLonG To on their eight birthday.

Charlene McKenna and her fellow cast members from the show, made the following excellent video for BeLonG To in support of this year’s Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week. And isn’t she fabulous?

Next month, from 9th-18th April, sees Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week by BeLonG To, the organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people in Ireland. The Week aims to tackle homophobic bullying and encourage support from our straight friends and peers.

If there is one thing most of us have in common it’s that we love a good laugh. So I have put together a list of my favourite lesbian stand up comedians for you. They are mainly American so if anyone knows of Europeans who fit the bill I’d love to hear from you.