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The Gathering and Pride

  • 10-03-2013 12:34PM
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    Freiheit
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    Hi at a Pride meeting lately and reference was made to funding from 'the Gathering' . It want's to bring it's lgbtq citizens back and spend money.

    The irony was palpable. How this country drove out many of it's lgbtq citizens because they broke it's moral code,just like those women in the Magdalen Laundries and their ilk. Now all is forgiven and it want's them home. Does anyone else sense cynicism?

    I wonder will there someday be an apology from the state for how it treated it's lgbtq citizens?. I think there's a lot of groups owed apologies by the state to be honest.


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    floggg
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    Freiheit wrote: »
    Hi at a Pride meeting lately and reference was made to funding from 'the Gathering' . It want's to bring it's lgbtq citizens back and spend money.

    The irony was palpable. How this country drove out many of it's lgbtq citizens because they broke it's moral code,just like those women in the Magdalen Laundries and their ilk. Now all is forgiven and it want's them home. Does anyone else sense cynicism?

    I wonder will there someday be an apology from the state for how it treated it's lgbtq citizens?. I think there's a lot of groups owed apologies by the state to be honest.

    I think sometimes it's really hard to win work some LGBT folks.

    Yes, LGBT people were the victims of massive discrimination, and are still to varying lesser degrees. It was wrong, plain and simple.

    Times are changing now though, and progress is being made. If the gathering was to collaborate with Pride, that would be a sign of the progress being made - a statement that we are now seen as a welcome part of modern Ireland and that the LGBT community is something to be celebrated.

    Maybe I'm just a glass is half full type of guy but to me we should be welcoming steps like that, not letting past grievances hold is back or dominant our thought processes.


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