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Tag: lesbian history

  • A stack of three old Enid Blyton books. They lie horizontally on top of each other, one orange, one yellow and one red.

    Renowned children’s writer Enid Blyton rumoured to have had lesbian affair with her illustrator

    Books, News 22 Jan 2024

  • Three side-by-side photos of influential LGBTQ+ women in history including Gladys Bently, Stormie DeLarverie, and Billie Holiday.

    11 LGBTQ+ women who changed the course of history

    Community, Entertainment 20 Dec 2023

  • Unshrinking Violets: 50 Years of Lesbian Activism is a series of events as a part of the 2023 Bealtaine Festival. The image shows a black and white photograph of four women. One of them is holding up a placard which reads "Lesbian". The image was used on an original poster for a 1973 meeting of the Sexual Liberation Movement in Trinity College, Dublin.

    Bealtaine Festival marks 50 years of lesbian activism with fantastic Unshrinking Violets events

    Community, Entertainment, Events, GCN Current Issue, News 25 Apr 2023

  • Bealtaine artistic promotional graphic of an older woman in glasses and headphones.

    Bealtaine Festival returns with an array of queer highlights

    Events, Ireland, Top News 5 Apr 2023

  • A black and white photograph of the old Parliament Inn, the site of one of the first Lesbian Avengers demonstrations in Dublin.

    The history of Dublin Lesbian Avengers and the Turk's Head 'Kiss-in'

    News, Top News 29 Apr 2022

  • The image is a screen grab of the two lesbian nuns who appeared on RTÉ's Late Late Show.

    A look back at the trailblazing lesbian nuns who appeared on the Late Late Show in the 80s

    Entertainment, News, Top News, TV 25 Apr 2022

  • Photograph from the cover of Patrick McDonagh's book, Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973 to 1993. The image is of a Pride float with people dressed colourfully, holding yellow and green umbrellas. The side of the float reads National Lesbian and Gay Federation.

    Stunning new book looks at the fascinating history of gay and lesbian activism in Ireland

    Books, Entertainment 17 Jan 2022

  • A smiling woman with her arms folded

    Karine Jean-Pierre becomes first openly gay woman in history to lead White House briefing

    Top News 27 May 2021

  • Split screen image of three women from the Easter Rising. The photographs have been overlaid with pink and brown colour casts. On the left is a photograph of Dr Kathleen Lynn, in the middle is Madeleine Ffrench-Mullen, on the right is Margaret Skinnider.

    The hidden histories of queer women of the Easter Rising

    News 22 Mar 2016

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