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Will Kennedy at Dublin Pride Parade 2019 wearing ACT UP Cork t-shirt. Will is a Cork gay activist and founder of ACT UP Cork and Positive Cork groups.

Toni Burgess ready to head out to Beours Dyke Bar to watch lesbian musician Grace Petrie play.
Toni is a Cork lesbian activist and parent. Toni was one of the first Irish lesbians to successfully fight to keep custody of her children after coming…

Toni Burgess at Cork Pride 2019.
Toni is a Cork lesbian activist and parent. Toni was one of the first Irish lesbians to successfully fight to keep custody of her children after coming out as lesbian.

Cork gay activist Cathal Kerrigan in 1975

Cork gay activist Cathal Kerrigan speaking at UCC LGBTQ Society's Queer Conference in Aula Maxima in UCC in 2019.

Valerie Mulcahy sporting a Pride Ireland Rainbow T-shirt and rainbow laces at a Pride picnic after training in June 2021. - this was part of the #LaceUpWithPride AVIVA fundraiser for BeLonG To LGBT Youth Service.
Valerie Mulcahy came out publicly as…

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.

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.