Spotlights

Now recognised as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", Roger Casement was a rebel at heart. Martin Yelverton explores the life and times of one of Ireland's most controversial figures.

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After being awarded a plaque for participation, Junior Larkin reports on the NLGF's pageant in the 1993 Saint Patrick's Day parade.

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Announcing her candidacy on 17 January, the night she reached the required minimum age of thirty-five, Blakk marked her entry into history with the words "We're putting the camp into campaign!" Should she win, the nation's highest office will become "more fabulous, more fruitful, and much, much more glamorous".

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The nature of Brigid is so fluid and multilayered that she defies neat definition. Mary Cardren perhaps puts it best when she gives her summary of Brigid's many different guises: "A Triple Goddess, A Virgin Mother, a homemaker, a Virgin Saint and finally, a folk image whose shadows still moves over Ireland".

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Clause 28 of the new Local Government Bill in the UK was passed through the House of Lords by 202 votes to 122 on Mon. 1st February. As soon as the result was announced, three lesbians swooped down on ropes from the gallery frightening the peers before being hustled out.

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Chain Reactions is an S&M lesbian bar full of ill repute. Any decent, right on or politically sound lesbian wouldn't be caught dead there. Naturally the more we heard about the place the more our curiosity grew until one Tuesday night some friends and I decided to brave the unknown.

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Starved of serious street fashion and culture I decided to take a peek at the Leather and Lace Night in SIDES Dance Club, Dublin, on Sunday 3 July. Down I descended into the murky depths of this trendy night club. I'm referring here to the punters' morals more than the actual club environment - although that could also be worked on.

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A selection of photos from Pride Week 1983 featuring people marching in Dublin's College Green, on O'Connell Street outside the GPO, and on one of Dublin's biggest shopping streets, Grafton Street.

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The purpose of the conference in the words of the organisers "was to develop and implement an effective strategy to insure that everyone who is affected by the virus has access to the support and service provisions they need and that people in Ireland receive the education necessary to prevent the spread of the disease".

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"Death by Apathy" screamed the banner heading in Magill (September) magazine. Not an­other death by hysteria I thought to myself on viewing the two and a half page article by Patsy McGarry on percep­tions within the AIDS commu­nity that "Irish people have de­veloped a major ostrich com­plex in relation to AIDS".

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The Names Project, a US AIDS Memorial based in San Fransicso, taking the form of a huge quilt with individual 90cmx180cm panels bearing the name of a single person lost to AIDS, has recently made the decision to launch the Quilt worldwide.

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The Magnus Hirschfeld Award, which is given each year in recognition of service to the gay community in Ireland, was presented to Marie Seligman and Fr Bernard Lynch last month.

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A festive weekend of staggering proportions is expected to erupt in Dublin city over the Halloween Bank Holiday period (28-31 October). Halloween has become a major party fixture for the population at large and gay people prove no exception.

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In Ireland today all contact of a sexual nature between males is illegal and “wrongdoers” are liable to arrest, charge and imprisonment.

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