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Dublin Core
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Title
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Gay Health Action (GHA)
Subject
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AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
AIDS organisations
AIDS information centres
AIDS activists
Safer sex
Safe sex in AIDS prevention
AIDS Awareness
AIDS education
LGBTQ+ health education
HIV/AIDS
Description
An account of the resource
Gay Health Action (GHA) was Ireland's first AIDS activist organisation. Founded in January 1985 to combat growing concerns about the presence of AIDS in Ireland, it became the locus of information about HIV and AIDS. Lesbian Health Action, a sister group, was also established to work on the health issues in the lesbian community. GHA played a leading role in the establishment of AIDS Action Alliance, Cairde and AIDS Helpline. They were also represented on the Roman Catholic Bishops' National Task Force On AIDS.
GHA's AIDS campaign focused on disseminating accurate, and often explicit, health information among the gay communities in Ireland. A prominent part of GHA's campaign was to modify the sexual behaviours of gay men through their publications. GHA adopted a harm reduction model that promoted "safer sex" and lower risk sexual practices. In May 1985, GHA published their first AIDS information leaflet. The first edition of GHA’s newspaper, AIDS Action News was published in 1987. GHA disbanded in 1990.
Language
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eng
Coverage
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Ireland
Source
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Arthur Leahy Collection
Rights
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Digitising these community resources in a publicly accessible digital archive can be seen as fair dealing and reasonable use of these materials (as defined in the 2000 Irish Copyright Act) and in keeping with the ethos and purpose with which they were produced. In addition to this, Permission to Use has also been granted by the owners of the collections and by the relevant community organisations. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit Cork LGBT Archive and provide a link back to this site.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
1985 Gay Health Action Information
Subject
The topic of the resource
AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
AIDS awareness
LGBTQ+ health education
Gay health
Gay Information
LGBTQ+ Information
Anti-gay discrimination
AIDS phobia
Description
An account of the resource
Information about Gay Health Action group which was formed in January 1985. Regular meeting of GHA held in Cork (weekly in Quay Co-op) and fortnightly in Dublin (Hirschfeld Centre). The information sheet marks the historic event of the GHA securing a number of workers under the Manpower Social Employment Scheme (government funded).
Creator
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Gay Health Action
Source
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Arthur Leahy Collection / Gay Health Action Box
Date
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1985
Format
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One page typed information sheet.
Scanned 2015-10-13 by Orla Egan (600 dpi, 24-bit colour). JPEG 4.5 MB
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Information sheet
Text
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1985
IRL
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Digitising these community resources in a publicly accessible digital archive can be seen as fair dealing and reasonable use of these materials (as defined in the 2000 Irish Copyright Act) and in keeping with the ethos and purpose with which they were produced. In addition to this, Permission to Use has also been granted by the owners of the collections and by the relevant community organisations. Items in this digital archive are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License. Please credit Orla Egan, Cork LGBT Archive and provide a link back to this site
AIDS
Gay Health Action
HIV/AIDS
LGBTQ Health
Sexual Health Collections
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