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A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories
A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories (Merrion Press) On May 23, 2015 the Republic of Ireland made history by becoming the first country in the world to introduce marriage equality by popular vote. Charlie Bird, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, traveled across the country to record the…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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It is a duty of yours, mine and the state's to end all prejudice
Treatment Action Campaign, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project are Atlantic grantees. She loved soccer and represented South Africa in our women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana. On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane was raped, stabbed 25 times, robbed and murdered because…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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New Finance Bill Delivers Critically Important Protections for Civil Partners
Today the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD., published Finance (No.3) Bill 2011 which will give effect to the taxation aspects of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010. The Finance Bill will allow for civil partners to be treated the same…
Author: GLEN
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First gay couple to have civil partnership recognised
By CARL O’BRIEN. GLENN CUNNINGHAM and Adriano Vilar have become the first gay couple in the State to have their civil partnership formally recognised by the State. The couple, who work at Argos, formed a civil partnership at a ceremony in Northern Ireland last year.…
Author: Irish Times
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Seanad passes Partnership Bill
By Harry McGee. Legislation giving effect to civil partnerships passed all stages in the Seanad by 48 to four votes tonight. The first civil registrations for same-sex couples are likely to take place next January following overwhelming approval of the enabling legislation by the Oireachtas…
Author: The Irish Times
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Two Civil Partnership Ceremonies Conducted on Average Each Day
By Pamela Duncan An average of two civil partnership ceremonies have taken place per day since their introduction last year, with a total of 862 ceremonies registered between April 2011 and September 2012. In that time period, 1,724 lesbian and gay people from 61 countries…
Author: Irish Times
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Couple happy to play part in Ireland's 'big step'
By PAMELA DUNCAN WHEN BARRY Dignam and Hugh Walsh first met almost 20 years ago, homosexuality was still illegal; neither man envisaged then a time where their relationship would be legally recognised by the Irish State. Yet today, 17 years after they started going out,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Same-sex partnership law 'one of biggest changes in 90 years'
By Fionnan Sheahan. Same-sex couples will be able to avail of legally-binding civil partnerships for the first time from next year. The Dáil last night completed its work on the Civil Partnership Bill, which is expected to be signed into law in the autumn. The…
Author: Irish Independent
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Successful Grants: Civil Partnership for Same-Sex Couples
Michael Murphy (left) and Terry O’Sullivan celebrate their civil partnership. Photo: Irish Independent Until 1994, Irish law still criminalized homosexual conduct. When The Atlantic Philanthropies entered the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) field in 2004, there were no other significant private funders in the area and only one…
Author: Alliance Magazine
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Transgender legislation pledged
by CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will publish legislation in the next year to provide for recognition of the acquired gender of transgender people. Ms Burton announced her plan when she published the report of an inter-departmental Gender Recognition…
Author: The Irish Times