Gays Against H-Block Armagh, featuring a banner with the phrase "No More Belsens", a reference to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the holocaust. The phrase "No More Belsens" was used by activist and political groups in Northern Ireland as a way to call out inhumane conditions in prisons.
Belfast Gays Against Imperialism attend the Anti-Internment rally in West Belfast. Tarlach Mac Niallais remarks that following the shooting of Sean (John) Downs, the banner bearers hid the banner behind hedges and seeked cover. After things had died down when they went to retrieve the banner it had been taken.
Belfast Gays Against Imperialism attend the Anti-Internment rally in West Belfast. Tarlach Mac Niallais remarks that following the shooting of Sean (John) Downs, the banner bearers hid the banner behind hedges and seeked cover. After things had died down when they went to retrieve the banner it had been taken.
Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco based LGBTQIA+ newspaper, had a gay Irish man write in to share his experience being gay in Northern Ireland in relation to the IRA. The excerpts include the original write in, a response from the IRA, and others commenting on the original message.
