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Photograph of Derrick Gerety in Devon in 2018.
Derrick opened Loafers Bar in Cork in 1983 and ran it for 16 years. Loafers was one of the longest running gay bars in Ireland and provided an important space for the LGBT community in Cork.

Loafers Bar on Douglas Street was opened in 1983 by Derrick Gerety and operated until 2015, making it one of the longest running gay bars in Ireland. This picture shows Derrick working behind the bar in Loafers in the 1980s.
Loafers became an…

Cork gay activist Dominic Whyte carrying the Cork Pride banner at Dublin Pride march in June 1993. The law decriminalising homosexuality had just passed prior to this Dublin Pride march making it a very celebratory event.
Dominic was a Cork gay…

Dominic Whyte in Verona 2005.
Dominic was a Cork gay activist involved with Gay Information Cork and HIV/AIDS activism.

Donna Alexander volunteering with the Cork LGBT Archive in 2019.
Donna is a Cork bisexual and feminist activist and writer.

Donna Alexander wearing a REPEALED t-shirt marking the repeal of the eight amendment (which had prohibited abortion in Ireland). Donna co-organised the first Irish Art+Feminism Wikipedia editathon in UCC In 2018. These events seek to improve…

Eilish O'Keeffe at Cork Pride 2018.
Eilish is a Cork lesbian and deaf activist.

Eilish O'Keeffe with rainbow pillars during Dublin Pride 2021.
Eilish is a Cork lesbian and deaf activist.

Emma Bidwell at a lesbian party in Cork in 1994.
Emma ran The Other Side bookshop in The Other Place LGBT Community Centre in Cork in the 1990s and was one of the instigators of the annual Cork Lesbian Fantasy Ball.

Emma Bidwell outside her home in West Cork in 2020.
Emma ran The Other Side bookshop in The Other Place LGBT Community Centre in Cork in the 1990s and was one of the instigators of the annual Cork Lesbian Fantasy Ball.