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Ger Philpott at the UCC (University College Cork) Maltings Theatre for the production of Blood Green by Gay Sweatshop London gay theatre group in 1980. This was one of the first public activities organised by the newly formed Cork Gay…

Ger Philpott at a Repeal the 8th protest in 2018 - supporting the repeal of the amendment passed in Ireland in 1983 which prohibited access to abortion. Ger had also campaigned against the 1983 Amendment.
Ger was a founding member of Cork Gay…

Cork lesbian activist Helen Slattery photograph from the Cork Queer Diary and Directory 2005.

Cork lesbian activist Helen Slattery 2015

Hollifer Fogarty with silver medal won for badminton doubles competition at the Gay Games in Paris in 2018.
Hollifer Fogarty is an autistic, genderfluid artist, IT professional and occasional Drag King.

Hollifer Fogarty in Cork in 2021.
Hollifer Fogarty is an autistic, genderfluid artist, IT professional and occasional Drag King.

Jim MacSweeney in 1985 pictured rehearsing for Friends of Rio Rita's play with Irish Gay Theatre Group in London.
Jim MacSweeney is a gay activist from Cork who has worked with Gays The Word bookshop in London since 1989 (Manager since 1997).

Jim MacSweeney photographed in Gays the Word bookshop in London in 2020. Jim is a gay activist from Cork who has worked with Gays The Word bookshop since 1989 (Manager since 1997).

Joan McCarthy, lesbian feminist activist, speaking at a feminist rally outside the GPO (General Post Office) in Dublin in 1985. Joan, representing the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Collective, spoke about lesbian visibility at the rally which was protesting…

Joan McCarthy speaking the launch of the UCC LGBT Staff Network in February 2008 - the first LGBT university staff network in Ireland.
Joan McCarthy and Cathal Kerrigan were co-chair of the UCC LGBT Staff Network when it was established in 2008.