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02 Jul 2012
Summer is a great time for lesbians and gay men. It's the time for our annual celebratioin, the Gay Pride Parade. On Saturday, there were 30,000 on the parade from all sectors of society, with more than 100,000 onlookers.
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01 Jul 2012
Tanaiste and Labour Party Leader Eamonn Gilmore TD today says that the 'time has come' for same-sex marriage in Ireland and that the right of gay couples to marry is ‘the civil rights issue of this generation'.
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27 Jun 2012
Ernst & Young launch GLEN's new, free online toolkit for employers - www.excellenceindiversity.ie - to mark Dublin's LGBT Pride Week.
The toolkit www.ExcellenceInDiversity.ie helps organisations realise the benefits of LGBT diversity in the workplace.
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25 Jun 2012
GLEN, at a briefing to the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party Justice Committee on 20th June, called on the Taoiseach to give national leadership, and say that he was supporting Civil Marriage for lesbian and gay couples.
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20 Jun 2012
The European LGBT Survey (http://lgbtsurvey.eu), open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people over the age of 18 in the European Union and Croatia, is closing on 30 June.
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06 Jun 2012
Responding to the announcement by Senator Katherine Zappone and Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan of their new court proceedings for access to civil marriage, Kieran Rose, GLEN Chair stated that "civil marriage should be open to all citizens, including lesbians and gay men".
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05 Jun 2012
Update 5th June 2012: Today, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD published the legislation which will create the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), merging the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission.
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30 May 2012
A guide to good practice has been launched to help healthcare professionals address the sexual health issues of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. The guide, which was produced by GLEN and GHS, was launched at a conference organised by the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland to mark Sexual Health Awareness Week.
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23 May 2012
Today RTE's Marian Finucane launched a new training programme for staff in hospitals and hospices on caring for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) patients and called for a roll-out across all care settings.
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18 May 2012
The Revenue Commissioners have confirmed that they will complete the ‘mopping up' of minor technical amendments to ensure that all the aspects of the complex taxation systems treat same sex and opposite sex couples the same.
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16 May 2012
"Civil Partnership was the stepping stone to Gay Marriage" says Kieran Rose, GLEN Chair in an opinion article in thejournal.
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15 May 2012
International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) is day when governments and communities in over 100 countries around the world take action to end discrimmination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgebder (LGBT) people. The theme for IDAHO 2012 is 'Combating homophobia and transphobia in schools'
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