LGBTQI+ Rights in Ireland and Around the World
Date and Time
Sunday 29 September, 12-3pm
Venue
Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
Join us for the final day of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. This is a family friendly day of workshops and discussion on LGBTQ+ rights in Ireland and around the world. Kicking off with a performance of Drag Story Time by Dublin Drag collective, Glitter Hole, this hour of story time is fun for all the family. Then join us from 1.30pm for a panel discussion on LGBTQ+ Rights Around the World, with Irish activist Tonie Walsh; Eric Sambisa representing NYASA Rainbow Alliance in Malawi; Trans Woman and Human Rights Defender Dandara De Oliveira from Brazil. Also joining the panel is journalist Hugo Greenhalgh from Thompson Reuters Foundation who will also screen his short film; ‘Stonewall at 50’. You are also invited to join us for a walking tour of historic queer Dublin, led by Tonie Walsh, who will walk participants through Dublin’s queer history.
All events are free but booking is essential. These are three separate events. Please feel free to attend one, two or all three events. Please see below for details of the three events.
Interactive Storytelling Workshop: Drag Story Time
Time and Date
12-1pm, 29 September 2019
Hosted by Glitter Hole
Category: Interactive Storytelling Workshop
Age: All ages
Tickets: Ticketed Event – Free Admission
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Workshop Description
Book lovers of all ages are invited to this Drag Story Time event, with the Kings and Queens of Dublin-based collective Glitter Hole. Providing families with glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models, join us to celebrate the imagination and playfulness of childhood as well as exploring picture books that celebrate being you, whoever you are.
Panel: LGBTQI+ Rights Around the World
Time and Date
1.30-3pm, 29 September 2019
Category: Panel Discussion
Tickets: Ticketed Event – Free Admission
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Panel Description
During this panel discussion we will hear from human rights defenders in Dublin to share their experiences fighting for the realisation of LGBTI+ rights in Ireland and around the world. These human rights defenders include Tonie Walsh, an activist for LGBT+ rights in Ireland and Eric Sambisa of the NYASA Rainbow Alliance (NRA) in Malawi. Eric is the winner of the 2019 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for Africa and is the first Malawian to come out openly as gay on national television.
Also speaking is Dandara Oliveira from Brazil, a trans woman and human rights defender working to combat violence and violations against lesbian, bi-sexual and transsexual women who are surviving the consequences of corporate megaprojects in the Trans amazon and Xingu regions of Brazil. Also joining the panel is journalist Hugo Greenhalgh from Thompson Reuters Foundation who will show a screening of his short film Stonewall at 50: Where next for LGBT+ lives?’.
Speakers
Eric Sambisa, NYASA Rainbow Alliance, NRA, Malawi
Eric Sambisa is the winner of the 2019 Frontline Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk in Africa. Eric is the first Malawian to come out openly as gay on national television in Malawi and he speaks about his experiences fighting for the realisation of LGBTI+ rights.
Dandara Oliverira, Brazilian LGBTI Activist
Dandara Sousa de Oliveira is a trans woman human rights defender from the State of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. With a background in law, her environmental activism began with the first social interventions against the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex in the Xingu River. She is Secretary General of the Altamira Black Movement, focused on the confrontation of racism, extermination, criminalization, femicide and discrimination of Amazon blackness, especially in the context of capitalist developmental projects.
Tonie Walsh, Activist
Tonie Walsh is an LGBT rights activist, journalist, DJ and founder of the Irish Queer Archive. Walsh was president of the National LGBT Federation (NXF) from 1984 to 1988, a time when homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland. Walsh also co-founded Gay Community News. In 2017, Dublin’s much-celebrated theatre and performance group, This Is Pop Baby! put Walsh on stage in a one-man show centred around his experience as a campaigner, as ‘a witness to massive social upheaval in Ireland’, entitled, ’I Am Tonie Walsh’.
Hugo Greenhalgh, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Hugo Greenhalgh is the LGBT+ editor of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Reuters, and editor of its LGBT+ news website Openlynews.com. For the film ‘Stonewall at 50’ Reuters followed four defenders in Honduras, Taiwan, Tanzania and Britain, asking: where next for LGBT+ lives?
Walking Tour: LGBTQI+ Walking Tour of Historic Queer Dublin
Time and Date
3pm, 29 September 2019
Meeting Point
Science Gallery Foyer, Trinity College Dublin
Tour Guide: Tonie Walsh
Category: Walking Tour
Tickets: Ticketed Event – Free Admission
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Join the ultimate walking tour of historic queer Dublin hosted by activist and historian Tonie Walsh, as he trawls the socio-cultural and political life of LGBTQI+ Dublin, from St Patrick’s proposition by a band of randy sailors in the 4th century to decriminalization of male homosexuality and the advent of marriage equality in the 20th century.
