“Belfast Lesbians Organise” article from Women’s News issue 72 February/March 1995
Lesbian activism
Lesbian community
Lesbian rights
Lesbian press
Age of consent
Lesbian organisation
Gay men
Lesbianism
This article describes the background and objectives of a meeting held for the purpose of setting up a lesbian campaigning and information group in Belfast. Topics of note include child custody, tenancy and housing rights.
Also on the page is a cartoon depicting four women, a donations appeal from Women’s News, and an advert for an English feminist quarterly magazine “From the Flames”.
Original entry written by Siobhan O’Mahony 09/04/2021
Deborah (author)
Women’s News
https://www.dividedsociety.org/journals/womens-news/issue-72/belfast-lesbians-organise
Linenhall Library, Divided Society website
Women’s News
1984-2001
Copyright Women’s News, reproduced courtesy of the Women’s News archive at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit the LGBT HERITAGE PROJECT Northern Ireland and provide a link back to this site.
PDF facsimile of A4 Women’s News article.
eng
Text
Magazine article
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 1995
1989 Co-operation North Exchange Prize: Cork Lesbian Line / Belfast Lesbian Line
Lesbian Activists
Telephone Helplines
Co-operation North Exchange, Ireland, 1979-
LGBTQ Helpline
Award
In 1989 the Cork Lesbian Line Collective and the Belfast Lesbian Line participated in a Co-operation North Exchange.
They were awarded 1st Prize in the Women's Links Section.
The Co-operation North programme funded exchanges and co-operation between groups in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Co-operation North
Cork LGBT Archive
1989
Cork Lesbian Line Collective
Belfast Lesbian Line
O' Neill, Brian (Chief Executive Co-operation North)
Fegan, Tommy (Deputy Chief Executive Co-operation North)
Permission to Use has also been granted by the Cork LGBT Archive. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License.
A4 Printed Prize with handwritten details of organisations.
eng
Text
Award
1989
IRL
Belfast Pride Photograph
Pride Parade
Large photograph of the first Belfast Gay Pride march in June 1991 at the top of Donegall Place showing a banner for the Queen's University, Belfast Student Community Action Group and several banners protesting the march.
The parade turning left from top of Donegall Place facing City Hall.
"We were met by a small group of (30 approx.) outside the City Hall with large placards (There were other religious fundamentalist types at different locations, but due to a march route change made in the last few days we missed most of them)" David McFarlane
David McFarlane Photographer
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, P A MagLochlainn Papers (PRONI ref D4779/8/3)
c. June 1991
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
The copyright holder for this image is David McFarlane . For permission to publish requests for this image, please contact PRONI at access@communities-ni.gov.uk
Jpg
Photograph
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Belfast Pride Photographs
Belfast Pride, Pride Parade
Collection of seven photographs taken of the first Belfast Gay Pride march in June 1991
David McFarlane Photographer
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, P A MagLochlainn Papers (PRONI ref D4779/8/1)
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
June 1991
The copyright holder for the photographs is David McFarlane. For permission to publish requests for these images, please contact PRONI at access@communities-ni.gov.uk
<p><a href="https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/88">https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/88</a></p>
<p><a href="https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/85">https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/85</a></p>
6"X4" Photograph
English
Still Image
Belfast
Belfast Pride Photographs
Belfast Pride, Pride Parade
Collection of seven photographs taken of the first Belfast Gay Pride march in June 1991
David McFarlane Photographer
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, P A MagLochlainn Papers (PRONI ref D4779/8/1)
June 1991
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
The copyright holder for the photographs is David McFarlane. For permission to publish requests for these images, please contact PRONI at access@communities-ni.gov.uk
<p><a href="https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/85">https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/85</a></p>
<p><a href="https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/86">https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/86</a></p>
JPG
English
Photograph
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Book review of 'A Room in the Mountains' by Sylvia Sands
Book reviews
Autobiographies
Allies
Religion
A book review of 'A Room in the Mountains', an autobiographical work by LGBT Christian ally Sylvia Sands.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
upstart magazine
upstart magazine
February/March 1993
Copyright Upstart magazine. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit the LGBT HERITAGE PROJECT Northern Ireland, and provide a link back to this site.
Magazine article
Text
1993
Belfast
Cara-Friend leaflet
Promotional info leaflet
Leaflet
Cara-Friend
Cara-Friend
Cara-Friend
Cara-Friend
PDF document
English
Leaflet
Counterpoint (clip): Ruth McCarthy Discusing Lesbian Visibility
Counterpoint
TV Programme
Ruth McCarthy
Lesbian Visibility
The Age of Consent
Rights
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.
(Click on the link at the bottom of this page to watch the video).
UTV
Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
<p><a href="https://digitalfilmarchive.net">https://digitalfilmarchive.net</a></p>
ITV
24th February 1994
McCarthy, Ruth
Nesbitt, Mike
Programme by UTV, copyright ITV. Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive Collection Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit the LGBT HERITAGE PROJECT and the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI), provide a link back to this site.
Digitised Betacam
English
TV Programme, Factual programme, Broadcast Media, Studio debate.
To watch the full programme <br /><a href="https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/counterpoint-gay-rights-3820">https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/counterpoint-gay-rights-3820</a>
UTV studios, Havelock House, Belfast
Counterpoint: Gay Rights - Clip of John Cross Interview
Gay rights
LGBTIA+ Activism
Counterpoint
TV Programme
Gay life
interview
oral history
UTV
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.
UTV
<p>Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net">www.digitalfilmarchive.net</a></p>
ITV
24th February 1994
Nesbitt, Mike
Cross, John
Programme by UTV, copyright ITV. Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive Collection Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit the LGBTQIA+ HERITAGE PROJECT and the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI), provide a link back to this site.
From the same programme<br />
<p><span><a href="https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/97">https://lgbthistoryni.com/items/show/97</a></span></p>
Digitised Betacam
English
Moving Image Clip
<span>Watch the full programme<br /><a href="https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/counterpoint-gay-rights-3820">https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/counterpoint-gay-rights-3820</a><br /><br /></span>
Northern Ireland
Crows Nest Bar Circa 2006