Kieran Rose And President Mary Robinson Áras an Uachtaráin Invitation 1992 Photo

Kieran Rose And President Mary Robinson Áras an Uachtaráin Invitation 1992 Photo

LGBTQ+ activism

LGBTQ+ activists

Gay activists

Lesbian activists

Decriminalisation

LGBTQ+ civil rights

In December 1992 President Mary Robinson invited Irish lesbian and gay activists to Áras an Uachtaráin (the home of the Irish President). President Mary Robinson had been inaugurated in November 1992 so this was one of her initial public engagements. It was hugely symbolic as she was inviting the Irish lesbian and gay community into the symbolic home of the Irish people at a time when gay sex was still criminalised in Ireland.
Mary Holland wrote of the event in the Irish Times: "Not for the first time, our President, effortlessly and generously subversive of entrenched prejudice, has given a signal that cannot be ignored"
Kieran Rose was a founding member of Cork Gay Collective and an active member of GLEN (Gay and Lesbian Equality Network).

Christopher Robson

Kieran Rose Photography Collection

1992-12

President Mary Robinson

Kieran Rose

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1992

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