On June 27th, 1974, the first Dublin gay rights demonstration took place at the British Embassy and the Department of Justice, with a dozen people including pioneering activists Hugo André Mac Manus, Margaret McWilliam and Jeffrey Dudgeon, protesting laws against homosexuality in the south and north of Ireland. In Ireland, both the Sexual Liberation Movement – born at a meeting in Trinity College – and the Belfast Gay Liberation Society were founded in 1973. ![]() In 1970, Pride marches in multiple US cities and London marked the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, the catalyst for the LGBTQ+ rights movement globally. ![]() It was preceded by more than a decade of LGBTQ+ organising, informed by and overlapping with feminist activism. ![]() 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of what many consider to be the first “official” Pride march in Dublin in 1983.
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