#queer dublin

[fionabrennanartisttours]

"Love is for Everyone"

Rammstein flew the rainbow flag from their drumkit at their massive show in the RDS arena, Dublin two days ago, to the delight of 38,000 metal fans!

[unsolicited-opinions]

This appears to have been taken in Dublin today.

This is the allyship of the illiberal left.

Tel Aviv is the most LGBTQ+ friendly city in the region and it isn't even close. Israel has laws to protect LGBTQ+ folks from persecution and those laws are enforced.

Hamas does not return the allyship which Queers for Palestine inexplicably offers to people who despise them.

I invite any member of Queers for Palestine (or any LGBTQ+ person who feels solidarity with these movements who despise you) to please advise of any allyship that has been shown to LGBTQ+ folks from Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, the Houthis, or Hezbollah.

We'll wait.

Israel isn't guilty of pinkwashing. Israel isn't trying to manipulate how LGBTQ+ folks see Israel. Israelis just see LGBTQ+ folks as human and deserving of human rights.

Their Arab neighbors do not.

This isn't Islamophobia, it isn't anti-Arab propaganda, it's verifiable truth.

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[samaeldire]

Trans bunnies for Rouwe 🐰🏳️‍⚧️

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- George Orwell, "NIneteen Eighty-Four"

Unethical, dishonest and sinister.

When multiple historians called out the 1619 Project's pervasive historical fraud, known compulsive liar, Nikole Hannah-Jones justified it as "reshaping public memory." That is, it isn't true, but it should be true, and people should believe and insist that it's true.

Dublin Pride has since added some text to their page to handwave the dishonesty. However, anyone using the site and its assets as a historical reference - and why wouldn't they, when it's the official site for Dublin Pride - will be reproducing the images they want them to have, not the ones that are factually accurate. So any news sites that source from their site will be, knowingly or not, perpetuating Dublin Pride's rewrite of their own history.

[impi-wimp]

Its so hard being so petite, smol and sexy 🏳️‍⚧️

[llitchilitchi]

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[main-character-moment]

Just back from pride and there was a concert and some lovely performances (unfortunately there were many I couldn’t stick around for)

But as the opening act was doing the final song, a group of Palestinian protesters barrelled up onto stage with their banners, and while all the performers held their own well for the most part and were able to finish the performance, it still knocked everyone off balance.

They then stayed onstage and interrupted the next segment to talk about Palestine and how it’s a genocide. How many of the organisations funding pride this year were supporting Israel. And while I know that’s so important and needs to be talked about, it made everyone uncomfortable. No one forgot Palestine at the parade! As far as I could see (considering I missed some of it), nearly all of the groups and floats marching had at least one Palestine flag, and many were chanting and had banners supporting Palestine. There was a lot of support for Ukraine as well, which no one is talking about as much (as far as I’ve seen) since it’s been overshadowed.

It was lashing rain. Everyone was soaked and there was little shelter or seating available, and it was taking a lot from people to stay at the celebrations in th weather, and the mood immediately dropped.

If it wasn’t for the amazing drag king who came on after they were finally ushered off giving an inspiring impromptu speech about the topic and tying it back to pride, I don’t think the choir that came on after would’ve been able to recover the mood on their own.

[fionabrennanartisttours]

The rain didn't dampen our shine at Dublin Pride last weekend! And while there was lots of music, dancing and drag, Pride is first and most importantly a protest for:

The urgent passing of hate crime laws

A ban on conversion therapy  

Simplified gender recognition for 16- and17-year-olds

LGBTQ+ inclusive schools and subjects

A safe, accessible holistic national gender service for under 18s, and

Safety for the LGBTQ+ community online and offline

Until next year!

Pictured: Belong To marching in the Dublin Pride Parade, 29th June, 2024 despite the heavy rain. Belong To and all its members were the Grand Marshal this year. Pictured on the far right of the photo is the Lord Mayor of Dublin, wearing a nice "Shine" Pride t-shirt under his blazer! Photo: Evan Treacy/PA Wire

[trueblackstar]

i managed to get a silver ticket for amsterdam!! im so excited to finally be able to go to one of their shows and meet other fans 🥺

also does anyone know of cheap hotels there?

[samaeldire]

Custom starry wolf for @wildcatpaws from today ✨

[drakonovisny]

i went to a little lgbt+ meeting today and it was so nice to chat to older queer folks. it gives me hope yk :')

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Last year at Dublin pride God was trying to burn the gays with the day of the parade being on the hottest day in June. The entire rest of the month was around 18-20 degrees (Celsius). Of course on pride it was 26 degrees.

This year, he tried to drown the gays! The entire month when it has rained it’s been short showers sprinkled throughout the day. Today, of course, consisted of torrential rain for the entirety of the parade and after party.

We marched the entire route with the trans pride bloc as usual. Literally my rain jacket (that is obviously supposed to be water proof) became soaked through. My jeans, tshirt, and UNDERWEAR were sopping by the time we got home.

Couldn’t even stay for the after party. And to add insult to the injury, because it was cold and wet I couldn’t wear the outfit I had planned: micro shorts that say comrade in rainbow sparkly letters on the ass, a trans shirt I crop, docs, and thigh high socks!

Couldn’t even show hole on PRIDE!!!

[i-sparkled-before-edward]

Dublin in June pt.5

Throughout June I took a photo of every pride thing I saw as I walked around Dublin. It may all just be rainbow capitalism but it made me happy to see all month.

[mishimaposting]

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

James Joyce, "The Dead," Dubliners, 1914

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

Pride was awesome

[fionabrennanartisttours]

This charming book has a small chapter on same-sex relationships and tells of Georgian-period terminology (mostly regarding gay men and women, in that order!) and people of note. What the Georgians got up to is of interest to us here, as Dublin was a Georgian city and of course, the laws made in London during the Georgian period affected Ireland. Therefore, if you could be hanged for "sodomy" in England, you could be strung up in Ireland too.

But the book goes into the nuance of everyday life in the period versus what may be written in the law books. For example, in 1822, the Anglican Bishop of Clogher in Northern Ireland had been caught in the act with a guardsman - the Bishop was dismissed from his position, but from the public's point of view, he became a figure of fun and jokes. And so same-sex activity was "semi-known and semi-secret"; very serious and dangerous on one hand and part of the furniture and a source of amusement on the other.

Another hint at the Georgian's attitude toward queerness is the sheer number of terms used to refer to it! For the gay men we had "mollies", "back-gammon players" and "catamites" (a Classical reference to the mythologically handsome adolescent boy, whose beauty caused Zeus to steal him away to Olympus to serve him). For the lesbians we had "flats", "tommies" and "rubsters". In fact, it is semi-jokingly stated that lesbians did not exist before 1870, because the more euphemistic terms were in use instead!

These terms for same-sex love and identity shows an emergent social awareness for the LGBTQ community in the Georgian era. Albeit mostly for the L and the G!

And of course we know that lesbians existed in Ireland before 1870, just one example being "The Ladies of Llangollen", two upper-class ladies who lived together (with only one bed in the house!) for 50 years. While numerous Georgian ladies lived together as companions, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby declared their loving relationship openly in upper-class society.

It seems that historical relevance and the holding of a powerful position in society both protected queer Georgians/Anglo-Irish aristocrats from punishment and encouraged historians to record their lives for our historical interests today. Therefore, there are no mention of everyday, "lower-class" Irish queers in this chapter of The Georgians. This is certainly a sad oversight in our LGBTQ+ history. But it's fun to read about 18th and 19th century queer people of note, especially the tommies and "female husbands" who I always picture dressed up like Gentleman Jack!