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PRIDE 2012!!

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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Waterford Pride 13th - 19th August

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I'll most likely just be at Dublin

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    I started a new group this year (eek!) so were marching in Dublin. I'm terrified something will go wrong but sure feck it!


  • #5
    Davyhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Davyhal


    You forgot Galway as well, which is usually the 2nd last weekend in August if I remember rightly


  • #6
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    GAY POWER!!


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  • #7
    FairytaleGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭FairytaleGirl


    Prides are great fun I think, for all involved :)

    I couldnt find an official date for Galway pride so I didnt post! Thanks for the Waterford link too :)


  • #8
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    baby and crumble wrote: »
    I started a new group this year (eek!) so were marching in Dublin. I'm terrified something will go wrong but sure feck it!

    Sure what can go wrong? Are you registered to march and all that?


  • #9
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    spurious wrote: »
    Sure what can go wrong? Are you registered to march and all that?

    Yep, it's just that we're brand new, and I'm terrified no-one will show up, and it'll just be me and one other person marching sadly along!!!! :pac:


  • #10
    Ambersky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Ambersky


    People are usually very supportive. For the last few years Ive been marching under a banner of a very small group, as in two three or four of us showing up. But we always manage to get some people who might even just be hanging around willing to join and support us.
    We probably dont realise how powerful just the having the name of a group out there in the march really is.


  • #11
    Goodshape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    FairytaleGirl wrote: »
    http://www.foylepridefestival.com/Index.html
    Derry City Foyle Pride Festival 2012 - 22th August- 26th August[/SIZE]

    Ah, cool - Derry! I was wondering if there was anything on there this year. I'll head into that one hopefully.


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  • #12
    kingofslaves
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭kingofslaves


    baby and crumble & ambersky fancy someone new to swell your ranks ? not sure if I'll be dressed en femme this year, but if not I'll certainly be wearing something pink !


  • #13
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    kingofslaves wrote: »
    baby and crumble & ambersky fancy someone new to swell your ranks ? not sure if I'll be dressed en femme this year, but if not I'll certainly be wearing something pink !

    Well the group I've set up is a social/ support group for people with intellectual disabilties who identify as LGBTQ. It's all a bit mad because lots of services aren't happy with people with ID being sexual, and as for HOMOsexual... well. That can cause a lot of consternation. ;) We have no idea if people will be supported by their services to come. Hopefully there's some loose canon staff willing to bend the rules a bit! ;)


  • #14
    1ZRed
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    Davyhal wrote: »
    You forgot Galway as well, which is usually the 2nd last weekend in August if I remember rightly

    There's a gay pride in Galway? Never noticed that before


  • #15
    realtinh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭realtinh


    I'll be at Dublin, Dundalk and Belfast.
    I live near Dundalk so I can't wait for Dundalk Pride this year. The pride party looks like it's going to be amazing :D


  • #16
    Ambersky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Ambersky


    I know that now Gay Pride is more of a Parade than a March and there can be some very heated debates about why we do this and what it says .
    Its a great day a celebration of who we are and of what we have achieved.
    There still are struggles even here in this country we still are not all equal under the law, individuals still find it difficult to come out and internationally there are some countries that even have the death penalty for being gay. So I think it is both a Parade and a March.

    For those of you who may not know the origins of the international phenomena that is the Gay Pride March and the Gay pride movement I would like to recommend the video Stonewall Uprising. Its on You Tube in several parts and can be found elsewhere too.


  • #17
    FairytaleGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭FairytaleGirl


    http://www.facebook.com/events/419634854755638/


    Northwest Pride Night - Held in Letterkenny on August 2nd! :)


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