Counterpoint was an Northern Ireland current affairs series. This programme examines what life is like living with AIDS from the viewpoint of a Northern Irish man.
This programme has been digitised as part of the Digital Film Archive.
Video from the 'Places of Pride' series as part of Belfast Pride 2020. Volunteers from the LGBT Heritage Project filmed videos in locations around Belfast highlighting their connections with local LGBT history. In this video, Grainne Starrs talks about the Parliament Bar which was a popular gay venue in the 1990s on the Dunbar Link in Belfast.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 12/04/2021
Video from the 'Places of Pride' series as part of Belfast Pride 2020. Volunteers from the LGBT Heritage Project filmed videos in locations around Belfast highlighting their connections with local LGBT history. In this video, Siobhan O'Mahony talks about the sculpture 'Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker' by lesbian artist Louise Walsh on Great Victoria Street in Belfast.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 12/04/2021
Video from the 'Places of Pride' series as part of Belfast Pride 2020. Volunteers from the LGBT Heritage Project filmed videos in locations around Belfast highlighting their connections with local LGBT history. In this video, Elspeth Vischer talks about Cathedral Buildings in Donegall Street in Belfast which housed a number of LGBT+ grassroots organisations in the 1990s.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 12/04/2021
Video from the 'Places of Pride' series as part of Belfast Pride 2020. Volunteers from the LGBT Heritage Project filmed videos in locations around Belfast highlighting their connections with local LGBT history. In this video, Gareth Lee talks about the opening of LGBTQ community organisation QueerSpace at 3 Botanic Avenue in Belfast in January 1998.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 12/04/2021
Insight: Gay Pride is a television programme originally broadcast on Ulster Television (UTV) in Northern Ireland in 1999. The programme covers events at Belfast Pride that year. It includes interviews with the organisers and coverage of religious protests outside Belfast City Hall (01:23-2:20 and 09:40-12:02)
A clip from a long-form interview broadcast in Northern Ireland in 1961, detailing an anonymous account of an openly gay man living in Belfast and the difficulties he experiences with homophobia and his own identity. This was originally broadcast on Ulster Television (UTV) in 1961.
Counterpoint was a TV Programme broadcast in the 1990's in Northern Ireland on the Ulster Television (UTV) branch of the national television channel ITV. It was a debate format show which encouraged guest speakers to discuss a range of topical issues. In this episode the age of consent, for gay men is discussed in relation a recent Parliament vote in Westminster, London, to make the age of consent for gay men different from that of heterosexual people in both Britain and Northern Ireland respectively. In this clip John Cross, a young openly gay man from Belfast is interviewed about his experience of being gay in Northern Ireland and various coping mechanisms to homophobia he has had to deploy.
Clip of first organised Reclaim The Night Belfast march, broadcast on ITV - Ulster Television (UTV) on 19.11.1987. Reclaim The Night are a feminist group set up in 1977, with a Belfast faction. They organise an annual march in the last week of November to protest against Gender-Based Violence and 'reclaim the night' for women and non-binary people to feel safe walking in the dark.
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Counterpoint was a TV Programme broadcast in the 1990's in Northern Ireland on the Ulster Television (UTV) branch of the national television channel ITV. It was a debate format show which encouraged guest speakers to discuss a range of topical issues. In this episode the age of consent, for gay men is discussed in relation a recent Parliament vote in Westminster, London, to make the age of consent for gay men different from that of heterosexual people in both Britain and Northern Ireland respectively. In this clip Ruth McCarthy, (representing Belfast Lesbian Helpline, a grassroots organisation aimed to provide services to support lesbian and bisexual women in Belfast, Northern Ireland) addresses the issue of lesbian visibility and how lesbian women are affected by the wider debate around the age of consent.
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