Letters Cork Examiner / Evening Echo and Gay Information Cork

Letters Cork Examiner / Evening Echo and Gay Information Cork

Helplines

Gay activism

Lesbian activism

Homophobia

Gay Information Cork

Cork Lesbian Line

Activism (LGBTQ)

Anti-gay discrimination

LGBTQ+ discrimination

Criminalisation of Homosexuality

LGBTQ+ visibility

Series of letters between Gay Information Cork / Cork Lesbian Line and Cork Examiner / Evening Echo re the refusal of the papers to carry advertisements for the telephone helplines. Letter 14 June 1985 from Kieran Rose for Gay Information Cork and Paula Keenan for Cork Lesbian Line to Mr. Hassett, Editor of Evening Echo re advertisement for Gay Information Cork telephone helpline. Letter 18 June 1985 from T.E. Crosbie, Chief Executive of Cork Examiner refusing advert on grounds that it was illegal. Letter 1 July 1985 from Kieran Rose to Thomas Crosbie arguing that it was not illegal and asking for the papers to accept the advert.

Gay Information Cork, 1985-

Cork Lesbian Line, 1985-

Cork Examiner, newspaper, 1841-

Arthur Leahy Collection

1985

Rose, Kieran, LGBT Activist, Ireland

Keenan, Paula, Lesbian Activist, Cork and Belfast

Crosbie, Thomas, Chief Executive, Cork Examiner

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1985

Cork City, County Cork