Gay rights ireland
What has changed 10 years after Ireland's marriage referendum?
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Civil partnership was a 'stepping stone'
Steven Smyrl and Roy Stanley have been together for more than 20 years, and they entered a civil partnership in 2011.
Steven said the couple recognised that step "would bring full equality, and it did".
"It paved the way for the enormity of the 'yes' vote," he said.
Roy said that when they entered their civil partnership, it allowed family members to attend - some of whom died before they would marry seven years later.
The vote on queer marriage in the Republic of Ireland was held 22 years after lgbtq+ acts were decriminalised in the country.
It meant a marriage between two people of the same sex would have the equal status under the Irish constitution as a marriage between a man and a woman.
Civil partnerships for same-sex couples had been legal in Ireland since 2010 - and this was the route many same-sex couples went down at first.
Celebrations enjoy 'winning world cup'
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Ireland becomes first region to legalise male lover marriage by widespread vote
Ireland has voted by a giant majority to legalise same-sex marriage, becoming the first region in the planet to do so by popular vote in a travel hailed as a social revolution and welcomed around the world.
Some 62% of the Irish Republic’s electorate voted in favour of male lover marriage. The finding means that a republic once controlled by the Catholic church ignored the instructions of its cardinals and bishops. The huge Yes vote marks another milestone in Ireland’s journey towards a more liberal, secular society.
Out of an electorate of more than 3 million, 1,201,607 backed same-sex attracted marriage, while 734,300 voters said No. The result prompted a massive avenue party around the gay district of central Dublin fasten to the national count centre.
Directly addressing Ireland’s gay people, taoiseach Enda Kenny said the consequence meant that “a majority of people in this republic have stood up for them [those in the male lover community]”. He said: “In the privacy of the ballot box, the people made a universal statement. With today’s vote we hold disclosed who we are. We are a generous, kind, bold and joyful people who speak yes t
Here's a short history of the battle for LGBT rights in Ireland
TODAY MARKS THE 25th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland.
Earlier this week, the government apologised to men who were convicted of engaging in consensual same-sex activity prior to the decriminalisation in 1993.
While the decriminalisation came 25 years ago, the battle to end the inequality of LGBT people in Ireland dates back long before that.
So, where did it all begin? Here are some of the main events throughout the years.
1861 – Offences Against the Persons Act
For most of Ireland’s history, its laws against homosexuality dated back to the Victorian era and were felt for more than 140 years.
The Offences Against the Persons Operate, 1861 made “buggery” an offence punishable by penal servitude.
Under the section “Unnatural Offences”, the Behave read: “Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal shall be liable … to be kept in penal servitude for life.”
1970s – The beginning of a social movement
One of the first notable actions against the crima
Irish referendum on identical marriage rights appears to have passed
@lobster said:
^^^ indeed. It really is about legal rights not Church dogma. It illustrates how far homophobic countries like Ireland can travel. Still more to do. Brothers and sisters in other countries creature relegated to secondary or illegal status.GAY is an acronym 'Good As You'. That really is the status of equality ...
That's the whole point. I don't think anyone is trying to secularize church dogma. We're just trying to keep church dogma off the law books and in the churches where it belongs, where it can be hailed or prayed to and bigotted right left and center in the privacy of their puny minute hearts.
I have an . . . acquaintance (barely) who is a Biblical literalist Christian who only talks to me, I ponder, because I both fascinate and disgust him (it works!). He claims that the move to 'tolerance' is an attempt to compel people like him to THINK it's OK to be gay married. I didn't really perceive that for the longest time. What does anyone concern what you Reflect in the privacy of your short-lived pinhead?
But after some thinking about this, it hit me -- it's projection.
His POV is all about t