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29 Jun 2012
The Irish Times has a report on the ban on Irish gay officers wearing their uniforms in the parade tomorrow alongside their European colleagues.
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29 Jun 2012
Pic of Obama in today's Irish Times. I'm assuming they knew what they were printing but they don't even hint at it. They're playing it straight (for gay Pride).
(thanks Ian)
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29 Jun 2012
... but obviously tomorrow is the culmination of the Pride Festival with the parade kicking off from Parnell Square at 2pm, and following the new route all the way to the new post-parade party venue at Merrion Square in front of Government Buildings.
See you all on the parade. I'll be up front waving 'cos I'm Grand Marshall this year.
And af course Pantibar will be open all day from when the parade starts for our annual, super-fun street party. Yey!
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29 Jun 2012
As you might imagine, it's pretty busy chez Bliss this week with Pride in full swing, but it gets me out of the house!
Yesterday I was invited to the US embassy to a screening of the documentary Stonewall Uprising and to take part in a panel discussion afterwards.
As you'd expect, security at the embassy is tight - the full airport style check - and you are not allowed bring any "electronic equipment" in with you so they take your phone. Which is a pity because I'd never been inside the US embassy before and it's pretty wonderful inside and I'd have liked to have taken some pics. In the middle of the round building is a "rotunda', a round full height space with circular balconies with brass railings rising four stories around a central "courtyard".
After some chatting, snacking and drinking, the screening took place in the rotunda with seats filling the floor space for an invited audience of members of the LGBT community representing a wide range of organisations and community groups.
Afterward I took part in a panel discussion along with Brad, the embassy man who'd organised the event, Moninne from Marriage Equality, and Siobhan, the LGBT Officer from the Union of Students in Ireland.
It was a great event, and clearly a very personal one for Brad who spoke about his own sexuality and at one stage while talking about some of the various events that have happened to mark Pride in US embassies around the world after Obama asked the embassies to engage with local gay communities, he suddenly broke down in tears and couldn't continue. It was very sweet. Though I suddenly had to jump into the breach and talk to spare him his blushes!
I had to leave pretty quickly after the discussion because I needed to get back to Pantibar for our Pride Make & Do Do, and while in the taxi on the way there, I got a text to let me know that anywhere up to a 130 European gay police officers were heading to Pantibar. Dublin is currently hosting a conference for the European Gay Police Officers Association and after a long day conferencing they needed a little glamour in their lives.
(Some of the visiting officers meeting the President and his Missus: pic Photocall Ireland)
And a jolly and attractive bunch they were. We even stayed open a smidgen late last night because I figured, what was going to happen if a Garda came along?!
However, although the Gardai and visiting police officers themselves were reluctant to discuss it, the major topic of conversation among the rest of the customers in the bar last night (after which of the policemen you'd most like to play Cops & Robbers with) was the growing controversy about the attitude of the Irish Commissioner to the wearing of the Garda uniform in tomorrow's Pride parade.
All of the delegates to the conference will be marching in the parade tomorrow in their uniforms - except the Irish officers. Apparently the Commissioner has refused permission for the Irish officers to wear their uniforms. Not even their dress uniforms (so it has nothing to do with confusing the general public, thinking they were officers on duty or whatever). Indeed, apparently the Commissioner didn't even want the visiting officers to wear their uniforms but the union caused a fuss. In the end the Irish officers were told they could wear their uniforms to visit the President in the Áras, but there was no budging on the parade issue. So, while all the visiting officers will be marching in their full and fine regalia, the Irish officers will be in their civvies.
As Catherine Tate's "Gran" would say: What a load of old shit!
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29 Jun 2012
... it's the Hutch's Pride Special, featuring, well, everyone! Flora S Nana, Fake Plastic Steve, Conan Drum, Cher Guevara, Pixie Woo, Sharon Stoneybatter, Floozey & Bloosey, Candy Warhol, Julian Mandrews, Smilin' Kanker, and of course Bunny herself. Phew!
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29 Jun 2012
Lourdes Leon-Ciccone fooling around backstage with one of her Ma's costumes.
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28 Jun 2012
Dubliner's will already know that we're getting another new bridge (It's been a great few years for bridge geeks in this town), this one only yards from O'Connell Bridge itself, and willl be carrying the LUAS and other public transport. I haven't posted much about it yet even though it's also only yards from my place because at this stage the construction is at the unexciting pile-driving stage and I don't want to bore you all with my bridge geekery. I'll wait till we get to a more picture-friendly phase of the construction.
Meanwhile, the Irish Times letters page has a running thread of people suggesting names for the new bridge - mostly naming it after the great and the good - and they have run the gamut from sportsmen to scientists to (as usual) writers. But so far, unless I missed it, no one has suggested a woman.
Currently there are seventeen bridges between the East Link and Heuston, and all seventeen are named after men. Not one of them is named after a woman.
If you go a little further out there's the Anna Livia Bridge in Chapelizod, but I don't count a poetic 'female' personification of the river Liffey as an actual woman. And the bridge at Island Bridge was previously called Sarah's Bridge after Sarah, Countess of Westmoreland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who laid the first stone of the original bridge in 1791. However the brdge we have there now was renamed Island Bridge after independence.
Now I'm not one for advocating gender quotas for the naming of bridges, and of course in times gone by it was much more difficult for a woman to leave a historically significant mark on the city, but when you have seventeen bridges (twenty three, if you go out as far as Lucan) and every single one is named after a man (bar the couple named after landmarks), well, it begins to seem deliberately insulting.
So I say when it comes to naming the new bridge over the Liffey, let's name it after a great Irish woman.
"Artivist" Will St Leger feels similarly about the representation of women among the statues in the city centre, and yesterday morning he tried to restore a semblance of balance by adding a new female statue to the city's statuary. She didn't last too long unfortunately.
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28 Jun 2012
And no doubt I'll be bursting with pride at your creativity!
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27 Jun 2012
penny for your thoughts
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27 Jun 2012
Join us on the Alternative Miss Ireland float in the Pride parade. Just follow the dress code...
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