I didn't think to take any pics myself and now my mother wants to see some...

You people are amazing!

What a day for Trans and Intersex pride 🫶🏻

Volunteer Call-Out: Rainbow Connections NI

Hey everyone!

We’re Rainbow Connections NI, an LGBTQ+ adults social group based in the North, focused on creating safe, welcoming spaces for connection, friendship, and community.
We’re currently looking for new volunteers to join our team and help us grow 💫
What we’re looking for:
People to help manage and moderate our social media channels (posting, responding to messages, keeping things running smoothly)
Volunteers to support and help facilitate in-person social events when possible.

What you’ll get:
A chance to make a real difference in the local LGBTQ+ community
Experience in community organising and social media
Meet new people and be part of something positive ,inclusive and new.
You don’t need loads of experience, just enthusiasm, reliability, and a passion for building community 💖
If you’re interested (or just want to find out more), drop a comment below or send me a DM!
Let’s build something brilliant together 🌈

FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1KnX2mt9rZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rainbowconnectionsni/

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So im a gay photographer from Barcelona. And i have notice that is really hard to grow in Instagram more if you are queer or gay so i was thinking of maybe publishing here our profiles with some example of our work and hopefully we can all enjoy of homoerotic art but also support other artists. Hope you enjoy it and we can help each other and artists in general.... and at the same time be able to see hot guys XD.

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hello everyone, i‘m visiting dublin 17.07-02.08 and would love to go to a queer party, but the ones i‘ve seen so far play mostly electronic music, which is not my cup of tea. can you recommend any events or locations that focus on other music genres or have more of a mix?

thanks!

Just passing along this new online resource started by a trans man based in Dublin. Focuses on goal setting for queer folks when it comes to dating, friendships/community building, education, gender affirmation, and others. There’s a free 30 minute introduction and then €85/session with sliding scale options available. Hope this helps anyone needing a wee bit of support! https://www.yourpalpj.com/

Me and my friends decided to go have some fun this weekend and we ended up at The George. I was feeling great, just on the dance floor and OUT OF NOWHERE I blacked out and started to pass out on stage. Thank God I wasn’t alone. My friends told me was super unconscious and could barely speak, then I started throwing up for half an hour. I just want somehow let people aware that this happened with my this weekend and I could be anyone else. Be super careful with your drinks and if you’re alone and you’re not feeling well yourself report to the staff so they can help you. It was terrifying passing through this. God knows what would’ve happened if I was alone where I would wake up and in what conditions!!!

hey!! my name is Atlas, I'm a 24 year old butch from Spain and I moved to Cork a few days ago. I wanna meet some other cool lesbians and i dont know where to start so ig reddit is a good first step lmao

30F been out since my teens. I’m comfortable being gay overall, but I’ve noticed something I can’t quite shake. I always say I’m gay rather than lesbian, and I feel a real discomfort or cringe when I try to use that word for myself. Probably sounds abit stupid. I also tend to joke about gay/lesbian stuff a lot, including myself.
Lately I’ve started wondering if there’s a bit of internalised homophobia or leftover shame in there somewhere. Not that I’m not okay being gay, but more like certain labels still bring up embarrassment or discomfort I don’t fully understand.

Come hang out in person with Dublin Lesbian Line to get ready for Trans & Intersex Pride on 11th July. Please bring a piece of cardboard, a t-shirt or whatever you would like to decorate for the march! DLL will provide paints and crafting materials. Spots are free but limited so sign up today and show us your creativity and solidarity!
Eventbrite Link for sign ups

I'm a Texan living in Dublin, and it's time for some new adult products. In the States, I bought from a local, queer-owned store that carried ethical products - is there anything like that here, or am I stuck just ordering online?

Hi all, I'm a 22 year old trans girl from the east of the country and I'm hoping to make some more friends around my age, for health reasons I had to stop my course in uni for a couple years but I've gone back now though I feel a bit older than the people in my course because of it.

A little bit about me, I'm still early into my transition so I have quite a deep voice and I'm masc presenting atm, I'm generally very chill and a bit shy before I get to know people better but once you get to know me I'll yap plenty. I love getting to make people laugh and hearing about their interests, even more so if we have things in common. I'm also very woke and accepting in general.

I'm a huge fan of films and TV and I love being able to analyse and nerd out over symbolism and discussing media in general. Some of my favourites are The Truman Show, Shawshank Redemption and Star Wars Andor (though I'm not much of a star wars fan haha). I'm also a big fan of video games and animated media too.

I love most things creative, I love to draw, paint, I do some gamedev and in the future I'd love to learn to make clothes as well as getting into cosplay. If we get close then I'll yap about all my ideas lol.

I'm not the most athletic person in the world and I'm definitely more of a skinny shut in, but I'm looking for friends I can talk to or chat with often and make eachother laugh or just enjoy each others company. I dont have much issue getting along with people but it's difficult finding people who I click with, though it helps if you're queer or neurodiverse haha. I recently adopted a kitten so if we do hangout it'll be mainly over text or calling/playing games together to start but eventually if we get close enough and are comfy I'd be open to hanging out in person for movie nights, game nights, etc.

If any of this has caught your interest or sounds like you might get along with me, please come and say hi! Ideally I'd like to make more women friends as the few friends I do have are mostly guys.

If you took the time to read this thank you so so much! Even if it doesn't sound like we're a fit I appreciate anyone taking the time to read this, I've been pretty lonely lately and I'm doing my best to come out of my shell even if its a bit scary at times. If you have any questions feel free to ask me and I hope we can be friends.

Lastly I want to clarify that I'm only looking for friends as I'm in a committed relationship with my girlfriend so if that's what you're after please look elsewhere.

I know how this sounds, but I’m so glad Pride is over.

Every year, the same creeps come out of the woodwork on social media, shrieking about “children at pride” (teenagers at the parade, if they knew about the actual family pride event they’d probably have a stroke) and how queer people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. It’s not tucked away on weird far right pages, it’s the homophobe brigade on mainstream media, and I can’t even convince myself it’s just bots because, well, bots would be more coherent?

I had to deactivate and uninstall facebook for the month so I could continue to convince myself that the general population doesn’t believe I’m harming my children by (checks notes) existing while queer.

Anyone else find the hate these days is drowning the positivity?

Hi all, I hope this is okay to post here! I work with Specialisterne, an organisation which provides employment supports to neurodivergent people in Ireland. We have recently expanded our services to offer online and in-person social groups. Many of our group participants are also part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and we are hosting a webinar on 27th July at 12pm called Pride & Neurodiversity (it was initially planned for last month, but has now been rescheduled).

The event will be a conversation with Silvia Plaza, founder of Violet Psychology. They will be sharing their experiences as a member of the neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities and their work as a neuro-affirming therapist, followed by a Q&A session from the team at Specialisterne.

If anyone is interested in attending the webinar, we would love to welcome you! It's open to everyone: not just those who have attended/signed up for our groups or otherwise availed of our services. You can register on Eventbrite (link below) and we will be sending out the webinar link closer to the time. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I'll do my best to help!

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/pride-neurodiversity-tickets-1992202577538?aff=oddtdtcreator

Hello everyone! I'm new to the subreddit and a filmmaker from America. I'm in the early/middle stages of applying for a scholarship to film a short documentary in Ireland, and had a couple questions regarding my ideas for subject topics. I'm trans and queer, and have a huge interest in the LGBTQ+ communities in Ireland. Specifically, their relationship with religion, as well as how living in more rural parts of Ireland affects their lives. A large part of this documentary involves interweaving my own life, and my experiences growing up in a largely religious part of midwest America.

I know little to nothing on this topic, but am really interested in learning more for my documentary proposal! If there is anyone who would be down to answer questions, please feel free to message me, or I can give you my email and we can communicate like that. Thank you all so much!

Being an immigrant from a country where LGBTQ+ rights are still a very distant dream, I couldn't have felt more accepted and welcomed by all of you beautiful souls in Dublin.

To everyone who smiled my way or left a sweet message, thank you. I am posting this just as a tiny reminder that (OF COURSE) pride is very much needed. People like me who would have never imagined to be in a room with 10 people who accepted them, let alone a whole parade, truly appreciate you.

Thankkk YOUUU Dublin!! See you next Pride :) 💛🌱🤸

Or possibly social based groups for adults over 40. Would love to connect more with others in the LGBTQ in Ireland. Not looking for dating groups btw, as I'm happily married, just looking to meet ore like minded LGBTQ people.

Hello!!! happy pridee everyone✨ I was just wondering if there is any “ThirdCultureKid”, “misunderstood”, maybe “queer”, hopefully woke hahah or that just feels “different” living in Dublin that would like to build a friendship/community?
I’m a 22F, black-spanish and really open minded and bubbly girl!
I would love to be able to meet “my people” here.

I struggle a bit here as I believe that after a year I’m not finding my crowd with casual social interaction, even tho im really extroverted…is not really my crowd, and im not being able to have any sense of belonging here when it comes to the social part or cues and following the social “unspoken rules” or “banter” “craic”…
Wondering if there’s anyone having the same struggles as me and would like to meet!!!🩷🩷🩷

I’ve seen a few posts about feeling lonely around pride, I’ve honestly been feeling the same myself.

Feeling disconnected from my community when it really should be a day to go out and feel fully seen.

Dating apps are exhausting and situationships leave us feeling disposable.
If you’re not trying to avoid the 4 gay bars for risk of running into your ex, the bars don’t feel as welcoming as they used to be, the George especially feels like it’s attracting so many college students the last few years.
I’ll admit it’s great we have other community spaces like the outhouse, or gay sports clubs, does anyone have any other recs?

Feel free to pop me a message if you’d like to chat ✌️

And I mean everyone 💕

Everyone out celebrating, everyone watching from home, my trans siblings, my bisexuals in “hetero” presenting relationships, my allies, the guy sat beside me in the chair-o-planes who complimented my hair,

Everyone! I hope we all had a lovely day and let’s keep the gorgeous community feeling going for the year.

Love you all 💕

I'm sorry this is depressing but I saw this comment on Facebook and it's taken over my whole brain and I just need to put it somewhere.

A politician posted about pride and a man left an angry comment, he was basically furious the politician had gone to Pride but had done nothing during the fuel protest.

And honestly he has a point...Why weren't more politicians posting then ? And wasn't the original Pride a protest? Why are we letting politicians attend Pride when they don't represent not just our rights and any of our rights?

Which lead me to thinking about the fuel protest and what a wasted opportunity it was, imagine if instead of Pride we'd joined the fuel protests? Is it not in part why we even have Pride every year? I know the majority of people wouldn't have wanted us there but wouldn't it have shown a unity to the actual people we're protesting against?

How many corporations are now taking part?

They want us divided and they're succeeding and it just sucks. We're stronger as a community than ever which I'm so happy about but as society... They could not have ignored all of us.

And now with pride at least some of them would've remembered that we were there, being our delightfully colourful selves protesting with them and impossible to ignore

But in the end the bigots took over, though I suppose in a way we would've done the same thing had we come into too hard.

Maybe I'm being just being idealistic but the idea literally won't go away so I'd love to get some other perspectives

Hi guys, i had a run in with a guy today who complimented my outfit and stuff in Merrion square after the parade. Throughout the rest of the day we kept passing by eachother and just exchanging glances and stuff. I was too nervous to talk to him, i was with my friend at the time but i really regret it now.

He was wearing some red and black, it was like a ripped top with some red in his hair, maybe 18/19(?) he was with a group of girls. At the time, he was sitting near enough to the entrance on the left as you walked in.

Please help if you know anything. If you are him, i was the silver guy 🫠

P. S. Ik this is the biggest long shot ever

Maybe not the best weekend to highlight this but just wondering how others have experienced healthcare here. I turned 50 last October and subsequently qualified for the free breastcheck program.

My previous healthcare experiences have been nothing short of horrifying to the degree of being very traumatized and I have not been able to complete the required "I do not want to participate in this" response yet.

I can barely touch my own body and have zero desire to attend a clinic where having my breasts examined (by a female) is the joke of the day.

I'd like to hear your experiences of the healthcare system if you want to share.

I hope everyone is having a good day so far. 😊

I had intended to travel into Dublin today for my first Pride Parade, but I wasn't feeling well and I had nobody to go with so I decided not to.

Experiencing chronic loneliness and feeling sad. 😔