REPRO FREE. 01/03/2019. Senator David Norris launched the Republic’s first event LGBT history festival. Pictured at the Launch are, Padraig Rice, Coordinator Gay Project Cork, Fiachra O’Suilleabhain, Gay Project Board member, Senator David Norris, Orla Egan, Diarmuid Scully and Mary O’Rourke, members of the Festival Organising Committee, at Gay Project Community Centre, South Terrace, Cork. Picture: Jim Coughlan.
In 2018 Cork hosted its first Outing the Past LGBT+ History Festival as part of the international Outing the Past celebration of LGBT+ History. Outing the Past Festivals were held in Belfast, Dublin, New York and throughout the UK.
Cork Outing the Past Festival took place on 1st and 2nd March 2019 and included a theatre performance, films and a variety of papers. The Festival was launched by Senator David Norris in the Cork Gay Project, with a performance by LINC Drama Group of Leeside Lezzies play, written by Orla Egan. The Saturday event was held in the Millenium Hall in Cork City Hall.
- LGBT+ History Festival | Saturday, 2 March 2019 @ 10.30am – 4pm
Millenium Hall, Cork City, Cork, T12 T997- Setting the Scene – Corks LGBTQ+ History @ 11am – 12pm chaired by Diarmuid Scully, UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Colourful Connections: Cork LGBT Community Activism by Orla Egan
- Voices from The Cork Folklore Project’s LGBT Collection by Dermot Casey
- Youthful activism @12pm – 1.15pm chaired by Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin, UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Made Grá the Law: A History of the Student Movement’s Campaign by Laura Harmon
- Afternoon Tea Explosion by Cathal Kerrigan, UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Screening of Chloe
- Lunch, Stands and Showcases @ 1.15pm – 2pm
- From Local to Global | Part i: Stories from the North @ 2pm – 4pm chaired by Mary O’Rourke, UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
- Queers Dancing with the “Terrorists” by Jeff Evans
- The Faithful Underground: Gay Christian Activism in Northern Ireland 1976-2016 by Richard O’Leary
- From Local to Global | Part ii: International Solidarity @ 2pm – 4pm chaired by Pádraig Rice
- A short history of LGBT History Month by Steve Boyce
- The History of the Gay Games by Viv Woodcock-Downey & Leviathen Hendricks
- Screening The Fifth
- Close with performance by Choral Con Fusion
- Setting the Scene – Corks LGBTQ+ History @ 11am – 12pm chaired by Diarmuid Scully, UCC LGBT+ Staff Network
Outing the Past LGBT+ Festival will be held in Cork again in 2020 – details here.
