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17 May 2013
To mark the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency publish the results of the largest survey every undertaken of the everyday experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the EU. 93,000 LGBT people were surveyed across the 27 EU countries and Croatia, including 1,625 LGBT people from Ireland.
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16 May 2013
The ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map for 2013 showing the legal situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people shows that Ireland is 17th in Europe compared to 14th in last year's Map. Ireland has been passed out by Denmark, France and Albania.
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11 May 2013
A new guide for GPs Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Patients: The Issues for General Practice developed jointly by the Irish College of General Practitioners and GLEN, is being launchd at their Annual Conference in Galway today, Saturday 11th May.
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23 Apr 2013
Historic progress as French National Assembly votes to introduce a gender neutral marriage Bill, which makes marriage available to lesbian and gay couples.
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22 Apr 2013
22nd April 2013 is the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court Judgement in the Norris vs Ireland case, in which the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by now Senator David Norris in his case seeking to repeal the laws criminalising homosexuality.
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17 Apr 2013
The Minster for Justice, Alan Shatter TD., after an independent selection process, has appointed GLEN Chair and co-founder Kieran Rose as one of the members of the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), a merger of the old Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission.
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14 Apr 2013
The Constitutional Convention this afternoon - Sunday 14th April - overwhelmingly endorsed same-sex marriage.
GLEN, ICCL and Marriage Equality issued a joint statement welcoming this 'historic step'.
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10 Apr 2013
Many thousands of lesbian and gay people throughout Ireland are awaiting the outcome of the Convention's discussions. The outcome will determine the pace at which Ireland moves to take the next step towards constitutional equality for lesbian and gay families.
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24 Mar 2013
It was with enormous sadness that we learnt of the death of Irish Civil Rights activist and GLEN Co-Founder Christopher Robson on Saturday. We express our profound condolences to his partner of 35 years Bill Foley and to his family and wide circle of friends.
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22 Mar 2013
Over 1,000 submissions on ‘same-sex marriage' were received by the Constitutional Convention up to this week's deadline. This is almost fifty times more submissions than on any of the other issues under consideration by the Convention to date. The submissions are running approximately 3:1 in favour of extending access to civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples.
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19 Mar 2013
Senator Ivana Bacik today published a Bill which seeks to remove a legal hurdle to marriage. The Bill seeks to amend the Civil Registration Act (2004) which prohibits marriage between people of the same gender.
"The Proposed removal of the legislative hurdle to marriage for lesbian and gay couples is a welcome development.
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07 Mar 2013
A group of Labour Senators and TDs today (7th March) publish the Employment Equality (Amendment) (No 2) Bill 2013. The Bill seeks to amend Section 37.1 of the Employment Equality Act to remove any prospect of teachers being discriminated against based on who they are.
GLEN welcomes this Bill as significant progress and we look forward to working with the Oireachtas to ensure that full employment equality is provided for LGBT people and that no threat or perception remains that LGBT people can be discriminated against in employment.
Update Wednesday March 13th
The Bill is to be introduced in the Seanad today by Senator Ivana Bacik at 5:30pm. See below for the link to watch the debate live.
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