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Out in The World: Exhibition Launch

Join us and other member of the Irish LGBTQ diaspora for ‘Out in The World‘, a new exhibition, which will be hosted in Dublin by the EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, in partnership with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.

The exhibition has been curated by Dr Maurice J. Casey who has been a champion of the LGBTQ community and a friend of the London Irish LGBT Network for a number of years. Maurice gave a talk for us on his paper ‘Radical Politics, The 8th and LGBT Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1973-1990.

The online launch takes place on June 8th at 6.30pm and will feature our Chair, Vanessa Monaghan, speaking as a voice of the Irish LGBTQ diaspora. You need to register for your free ticket on Eventbrite.

You can visit the exhibition EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin from June 8th to December 1st 2021. Here’s the fun part: ‘Out in The World’ will also tour to select locations across the world in 2022. Hopefully London will be one of those stops!

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Like What We Do? Help us keep our Virtual meet ups going!

Since October 2020, we’ve been focusing on our monthly virtual meet ups. So far, we’ve had a really good response from people and we’ve received some donations for which we are eternally grateful.

As you may know, we’re a small community group and at the moment, we don’t have any funding. The donations that we have received over the past few months are paying for our monthly Zoom costs. These are costs are paid until March.

We hope that you are enjoying the meet ups as we much as we are, finding them entertaining, informative and at the moment, it’s a rare chance for us to get to speak and chat with each other.

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