UTV news segment on the wedding of the first same-sex couple to be married in Northern Ireland. Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards-Peoples were married in Carrickfergus on their 6 year anniversary. The report also shows a short clip of the first same-sex wedding in the UK which took place in 2014.
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Resolutions is a 6 part discussion series broadcast by UTV ( Ulster Television) in 1998. Each week presenter, John Kelly, invites six young adults to challenge conventional opinion on a topic of particular concern to them. This episode involves a discussion on the right time for sex. In this clip a young lesbian woman expresses her views on visibility and sex education in Northern Ireland.
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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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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 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.
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.
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)
