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The Outlet<br />
LGBT social group<br />
6.30 to 8.00pm, GOSHH, Redwood<br />
Place, 18 Davis St, Limerick.<br />
E: LGBT@goshh.ie<br />
GoBLeT LGBT social group<br />
Ballina, Co Mayo. For more info<br />
call or text: 089 445 4708<br />
FRIDAYS<br />
shOUT! LGBT Youth Group<br />
Ages 18-21 6.30-8.30pm<br />
Youth Work Ireland Offices, 41-43<br />
Prospect Hill<br />
W: lgbtyouthgalway.com<br />
E: shout@youthworkgalway.ie<br />
T: 087 773 8529<br />
OUTWEST<br />
Bi-monthly social group.<br />
T: 087 972 5586<br />
W: outwest.ie<br />
E: info@outwest.ie<br />
SATURDAYS<br />
shOUT! LGBT Youth Group<br />
Ages 14-17. 12-1.30pm, Youth Work<br />
Ireland Offices, Galway<br />
W: lgbtyouthgalway.com<br />
E: shout@youthworkgalway.ie<br />
T: 0877738529.<br />
Gossip Trans Group<br />
Second Saturday of every month.<br />
10:30-12 30pm, Teach Solais in<br />
Galway.<br />
OTHER GROUPS<br />
shOUT! Parent group<br />
Second Sunday of every month.<br />
2.30-4.00pm, Youth Work Ireland<br />
O ffi c e<br />
T: 087 773 8529<br />
Over The Rainbow Drama Group<br />
Sligo. W: Facebook.com/<br />
overtherainbowdramagroup<br />
SHEnanigans<br />
Lesbian, bi, trans women’s social<br />
group in the West.<br />
E: shenaniganswest@gmail.com or<br />
W: meetup.com/shenanigans<br />
AMACH! LGBT Galway<br />
W: amachlgbt.com<br />
E: info@amachlgbtcom<br />
T: 086 069 4747<br />
GOSSIP Trans Group<br />
E: gossipgalway@gmail.com<br />
LGBT Pavee<br />
Gay Traveller Group<br />
W: www.lgbtpavee.com<br />
OUTWEST<br />
Social group for LGBTs in the West<br />
W: outwest.ie<br />
E: info@outwest.ie<br />
T: 087 9725586.<br />
LGBT Navan group<br />
Various meets for differing age<br />
ranges.<br />
E: youth@outcomers.org<br />
Smily LGBT Youth Group, Sligo<br />
Safe space where LGBTs can<br />
be themselves<br />
Weekly drop-in for ages 14-23.<br />
T: 089 4820330 or T: 071 9144150<br />
E: smilyyouthlgbt@gmail.com<br />
W: Facebook: smily.<br />
LGBT>northwest.<br />
HEALTH HELP<br />
AIDS West<br />
T: (091) 562 213 or<br />
E: info@aidswest.ie<br />
W: aidswest.ie<br />
GOSHH Limerick<br />
(Gender, Orientation, Sexual<br />
Health, HIV)<br />
T: (061) 314 354<br />
E:info@goshh.ie<br />
W: goshh.ie<br />
LGB Alcoholics Anonymous<br />
(Galway & Midlands area)<br />
Every Saturday, 7.30pm<br />
Call Denis (087 295 6233) or Paddy<br />
(087 250 7580) for details<br />
HELPLINES<br />
National LGBT Helpline<br />
Wherever you are, help is just a<br />
phonecall away at 1890 929 539.<br />
Mon-Thurs. 6:30-9pm, Fri: 4-9pm,<br />
Sat & Sun: 4-6pm. W: lgbt.ie.<br />
Clare Area Lesbian<br />
Information Line<br />
Find out what’s going on in Clare<br />
T: 087 949 4725<br />
E: clarelesinfo4@eircom.net<br />
Clare Women’s Network<br />
Meets fortnightly<br />
E: clarewomen@eircom.net<br />
GOSHH Helpline (Limerick)<br />
(061) 316661. Mon-Fri: 9.30 am to<br />
5.00pm, Wed: 11-5pm<br />
W: goshh.ie<br />
NW Lesbian Line<br />
(071) 914 7905. Monday & Thursday.<br />
6-9pm<br />
W: dublinlesbianline.ie<br />
OUTWEST Gay Helpline<br />
(094) 937 2479, Thursdays 8-10pm<br />
STUDENT LGBT SOCIETIES<br />
Mary Immaculate College,<br />
Limerick<br />
W: Facebook/Mary I LGBTA<br />
Sligo IT<br />
E: itslgbt@gmail.com<br />
GMIT LGBT and Equality Society<br />
E: GMITequality@hotmail.com<br />
NUI Galway GIGsoc<br />
W: su.nuigalway.ie<br />
E: gigsoc@soc.nuigalway.ie<br />
GARDA ELO/LGBT OFFICERS<br />
Clare /Shannon<br />
Garda Barry Doherty, 061 365900<br />
Galway<br />
Garda Claire Burke 091 538079<br />
Mayo<br />
Garda Michael Toland (Castlebar)<br />
094 903 8200<br />
Sligo<br />
Sergent Philip Maree 071 915 7000<br />
Leitrim<br />
Garda Josephine Kirrane<br />
(Manorhamilton) 071 982 0620<br />
Donegal<br />
Garda Cliona Moore (Letterkenny)<br />
074 916 7100<br />
GROUPS<br />
Longford LGBT<br />
Wednesdays at 8pm<br />
T: 0863022161 or<br />
E: longford_lgbt@ hotmail.com<br />
W: Facebook: Longford LGBT<br />
LGTBT AA Midlands area<br />
T: 087 912 2685 or<br />
T: 087 679 8495<br />
Luck Out (Laois)<br />
Youth Group providing support for<br />
LGBT+ young people aged 14-24<br />
E: josh@ywilaois.com<br />
T: (057) 866 5010<br />
GARDA ELO/LGBT OFFICERS<br />
Athlone<br />
Sgt. Andrew Haran 090 649 8550<br />
Cavan<br />
Garda Jerome Forde 049 433 5302<br />
Longford<br />
Garda Una Brady 043 3346741<br />
Meath<br />
Garda Sandra O’Leary (Navan)<br />
046 907 9930<br />
Monaghan<br />
Sergeant Rose M. Mcgirl 047 77200<br />
Mullingar<br />
Garda Neill Donellan 044 938 4000<br />
Portlaoise<br />
Sergeant John Healy 057 867 4122<br />
Roscommon<br />
Sergeant Michael Hogan (Granard)<br />
043 668 7660<br />
Tipperary<br />
Garda Shaun Brosnan (Clonmel)<br />
052617 7640<br />
Tullamore<br />
Sergeant Thomas Duffy<br />
057 932 7052<br />
Community News<br />
Outing The Past<br />
<strong>February</strong> will see the debut of Northern Ireland’s first LGBT+<br />
History Festival, which aims to empower the community to learn<br />
more about our own history, as well as educating those outside<br />
the community.<br />
OUTing the Past will be launched by Belfast’s Lord Mayor<br />
Cllr. Nuala McAllister on <strong>February</strong> 16, with speeches by Cllr<br />
Jeff Dudgeon, the man responsible for taking the case against<br />
Northern Ireland to have male homosexuality decriminalised in<br />
1982, and Senator David Norris.<br />
On Saturday is the festival’s conference component, which<br />
takes place in the Ulster Museum. Short papers will be presented<br />
with discussions afterwards - everything from trans personnel<br />
in the British Army to gay and lesbian people in ancient Gaelic<br />
Ireland will be explored.<br />
Here’s the full line-up for Saturday, <strong>February</strong> 17:<br />
10am Cork LGBT Activism and Cork-Belfast<br />
Collaborations, with Orla Egan<br />
The previously hidden history of LGBT+ Activism in Cork and the<br />
development of the Cork LGBT Community.<br />
10.30am Queers Dancing with the ‘Terrorists’, with JGM Evans<br />
A rare insight into an event in the early 1980s when the first UK<br />
Student LGBT+ Conference (NUS LGBT) was picketed by Rev.<br />
Ian Paisley’s Save Ulster from Sodomy Campaign.<br />
11.00am LGBT Emigration Northern Ireland,<br />
post-1967, with Nadine Gilmore<br />
Oral history interviews found in various archives throughout the<br />
UK, as well as a number of interviews conducted with members<br />
of the gay community in Belfast.<br />
11.30am ‘Gay’ Behaviour in Gaelic Ireland:<br />
AD500-1600, with Brian Lacey<br />
The diverse evidence of homosexual relations and practices in<br />
medieval Gaelic Irish culture – c.AD 500-1600.<br />
12.00pm PSNI and Garda Síochána<br />
A collaboration between the Police Service of Northern Ireland<br />
and An Garda Síochaná on LGBT+ history in Ireland.<br />
12.30pm Soldiers in Love, with Peter Roscoe<br />
This presentation explores approximately 300 love letters<br />
between Infantryman Gordon Bowsher to Gunner Gilbert<br />
Bradley, sent before and during World War Two.<br />
1.30pm Cara-Friend & Lesbian Line:<br />
Combating Isolation, with Mary McKee<br />
How Cara-Friend and Lesbian Line fought to combat isolation of<br />
queer people in Ireland between the 1970s and 1990s.<br />
2.00pm The AIDS Epidemic in Ireland<br />
and Northern Ireland, with Tonie Walsh<br />
<strong>GCN</strong>’s founder, Tonie Walsh talks about his personal experience<br />
of AIDS in Ireland in the 1980s and ’90s.<br />
2.30pm ‘Out of the Shadows’: 21 years in Merseyside Police, with<br />
Tracy O’Hara<br />
Personal story of serving as a gay detective in Merseyside police<br />
for 21 years.<br />
3.00pm DYEP: Trans Personnel in the<br />
Armed Forces to 2009, with Emma Vickers<br />
The historical experiences of trans personnel in the British<br />
Armed Forces before 2009.<br />
3.30pm Sound and Vision, with Kate Hutchinson<br />
Looking at the history of media portrayal and representation of<br />
the trans community.<br />
Clare /Ennis<br />
Garda Denis Collins, 065 684 8100<br />
For more information, visit outingthepast.org,uk<br />
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