UCC LGBT Staff Network

27/04/2020

Cathal Kerrigan one of the Network's founding co-chairs, retired on 21 April.

BEING GAY AND GREY, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biophobia, IDAHOT/IDAHOBIT 2018 Conference, Cork LGBT Inter Agency Group in association with Cork Healthy Cities and Age Friendly City, at the Millennium Hall, City Hall, Cork.
Pictured
Cathal Kerrigan being presented with the Cork LGBT InterAgency Award in recognition of his LGBTI+ activism by Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Fergal Dennehy.
The 8th Annual LGBTI+ Awareness Week
Cork- A Republic of Equals
13th -19th May 2018
This is the eight LGBT Awareness Week organised around (International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia) IDAHOT Day, May 17th.
The 8th Annual LGBTI+ Awareness Week
Cork- A Republic of Equals
13th -19th May 2018
This is the eight LGBT Awareness Week organised around (International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia) IDAHOT Day, May 17th.
Cork LGBT Awareness Week is organised by an Interagency Steering Group representative of Cork City Council, HSE South, Department of Social Protection, TÚSLA, An Garda Síochaná, Department of Social Protection, Cork ETB, Cork City Partnership, LINC, Cork Gay Community Development Project, CESCA Equality Alliance/ Ballyphehane Togher C.D.P. and Sexual Health Centre.
Picture: Jim Coughlan.

31/03/2020

Today 31 March is International Transgender Day of Visibility https://blog.oup.com/2020/03/how-to-be-an-ally-for-transgender-rights/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=oupblog

18/03/2020

Highlighting the important role trade union support played in the holding of the 1st National Gay Conference in Cork in 1981, Cathal Kerrigan recalls....

19/02/2020

OUTing The Past Cork 2020 in on this coming weekend! Full programme & tickets:

OUTing the Past: The International Festivals of Le***an Gay Bisexual & Trans History: In 2020 the theme in Cork is Poetry, Plays and Prose

29/01/2020

an Anonymous Survey on The State of Homelessness Among LGBT Youth (18-28 years old) in Ireland

https://lgbtyouth-housing.com/

29/01/2020

13/01/2020

Why it’s vital to record, teach and explore LGBT+ Irish history – that’s the theme of two recent public discussions with UCC History’s Dr Diarmuid Scully.

Diarmuid is Events Officer with UCC LGBT+ Staff Network. He wrote about his own work on LGBT+ history and why he undertook it in the Sunday issue of The Irish Sun on 22nd December 2019:
https://www.thesun.ie/news/4914167/ucc-cork-lgbt-history-ireland/

He was also interviewed by Kathryn Thomas on the Ray D’Arcy Show (2nd January 2020) https://www.rte.ie/radio1/ray/podcasts/

Diarmuid’s new 6-week course for UCC’s Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) is open to the public, and is scheduled for late January – full details are available at https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0195/

His 2nd Year Case Study on modern Irish LGBT+ history is now in its second year in UCC School of History. It’s the first ever undergraduate module on the subject to be taught in an Irish university.

UNIVERSITY College Cork has launched Ireland’s first course looking at the modern history of the Irish LGBT+ community From Shame to Pride? A Short Introduction to LGBT+ Irish ­History (1970s-2020)…

17/12/2019

Ireland’s first course to examine the modern history of the Irish LGBT+ community is being offered by the School of History’s Dr Diarmuid Scully in UCC’s Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) Programme, Spring 2020. ‘From Shame to Pride? A Short Introduction to LGBT+ Irish History (1970s-2020)’ is a six-week course exploring the experience of LGBT+ people in Ireland since New York’s 1969 Stonewall Riots, which inspired the LGBT+ rights movement internationally. Topics include the impact of criminalisation on the LGBT+ community in 1970s and 1980s Ireland, the homophobic murder of Declan Flynn in Fairview Park, Dublin in 1982, the Churches and LGBT+ identity and sexuality, the Irish LGBT+ diaspora in the United States, the struggle for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland, and the Marriage Equality referendum in 2015. This course is based on the first ever degree-level modern Irish LGBT+ History module taught in an Irish university – Diarmuid’s HI 2105 Case Study, LGBT Identities in Modern Ireland: Sources, Contexts, Interpretations. Diarmuid introduced this Second Year History course in 2018 to mark the 25th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Details of Diarmuid’s ACE course (running from 29th January to 4th March 2020 inclusive) are available online at https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0195/

03/12/2019

2nd December 2015: Dáil passes a Bill to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT+ teachers. The Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 amended the provisions of Section 37(1) of the Employment Equality Act.