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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.

Konrad Im won the title of Mr Gay Cork in 2015. He subsequently won the title of Mr Gay Ireland and represented Ireland at the Mr Gay Europe competition in Sweden and Norway in the summer of 2016.
This photograph was taken as part of a photoshoot…

Konrad Im with the Dragging Up the Past Exhibition in CIT (Cork Institute of Technology) (later renamed MTU (Munster Technological University) Cork).
Konrad is a Cork gay activist and was Chairperson of the CIT LGBT Society.

Gay activist Richard O'Leary in the Quad at Queen's University Belfast in 1987.

Gay activist Richard O'Leary photographed at Queen's University Belfast standing in front of the demolished Students Union building. It was in that building that Richard and the student 'Gaysoc' used meet on Tuesday nights in 1988-89.

Aoife Cook at Cork Pride 2014.
Aoife is a lesbian athlete active in the Cork LGBT community. She won the Dublin Marathon in 2019 and is competing in the Tokoyo Olympics 2021.

Aoife Cooke sporting the Team Ireland track suit in July 2021.
Aoife is a lesbian athlete active in the Cork LGBT community.
She won the Dublin Marathon in 2019 and is competing in the Tokoyo Olympics 2021.

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.

Liz Willows dressed as Medusa for one of the annual Cork Lesbian Fantasy Balls in 2003.
Liz Willows established the Cork Lesbian Health Project in 1996 and worked in the Other Place LGBT Community Centre and the Gay Men's Project.