Aiteach Zine #2
Accessible version beneath the issuu slides
Pride Issue: History of the Flag
Also: bi column, art, spirituality, health, and so much more!
Wexford Pride in the Park report inside
Contributors: Veronica Victor (she/her), John Cunningham-Ryan (he/him), Vic Kelly-Victor (they/them), Mx. Adam Khan (they/them), Andrei Boyd (he/they), Declan Flynn (he/him), Sive ó Bolguidhir (they/them/she/her), Dorn Simon (she/her).
STONEWALL RIOTS
JUNE 28, 1969
Photograph of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Stonewall Inn was not a heaven on earth, particularly for BIPOC patrons, and yet they stood shoulder to shoulder and fought for its existence. We owe an immense debt to those who showed us our worth and fought for a right to exist on this planet free of harassment. The fight continues and it’s time to pay that debt back.
Lest we forget our power.
Photograph of the outside of the Stonewall Inn.
RECLAIMED
THE QUEER DICTIONARY / AN FOCL’OIR AITEACH
LGBTQQIPA/LADTACIPE
Lesbian - Leispiach
Gay - Aerach
Bisexual - Déghnéasach
Transgender - Trasinscneach
Queer - Aiteach
Questioning - Ceisteach
Intersex - Idirghnéas
Pansexual - Painghnéasach
Asexual - Gan-ghnéasach
CONTENTS
Pride Celebrations Map 2023
Pride in the Park Report - Vic Kelly-Victor
Pride in the Park in Photos
The Afterparty in Photos
Facts - Veronica Victor
History - John Cunningham-Ryan
Bi - Dorn Simon
Spirituality - Andrei Boyd
Health - Declan Flynn
Art - Sive Ó Bolguidhir
Poetry - Mx. Adam , Dorn Simon
Ongoing Events
Proudly LGBT+
IRISH PRIDE CELEBRATIONS 2023
Spread includes a map of the country of Ireland with individual pride celebrations labeled and marked with a star to indicate their location on the map.
Created by Wexford Pride and Tully Crafts.
COMMITTEE REPORT
VIC KELLY-VICTOR
Of course the main focus of this month's committee report is Pride in the Park! But there is also plenty to report about plans for June and later in the year. More on those later.
Once again, we had gorgeous weather for Pride in the Park. When the committee, the volunteers and the vendors showed up between 9 and 10 a.m., we were all able to get straight into setup of the stage, booths, and so on. The sun stayed with us all day, as did the festive, family-friendly atmosphere.
John Cunningham-Ryan (he/him, Secretary) worked closely with the volunteers, meeting them in the runup to the event and early on the day to ensure that everyone knew their role. We are hugely thankful to the brilliant volunteers who helped out this year: we absolutely could not have managed the day without them.
Veronica Victor (she/her, Community Liaison) communicated with the vendors and the community group representatives, letting everyone know when to arrive and where to set up. We'd also like to thank the in-community and allied vendors who came with such a great attitude for the day.
While the vendors and volunteers all knew exactly what to do, the committee had one major obstacle to overcome. We'd been promised mains power for the event, but when the sound crew from Trax arrived, we discovered not only that the power wasn't working, but also that nobody would be able to come out to get it working! In the end, John had to drive to Rosslare to meet someone coming from New Ross with a generator. In the meantime, the sound crew were able to set up a battery-run microphone and a couple of small speakers so that we could at least let everyone know what was going on.
Veronica was also responsible for the main stage, so she was the one who made the announcement and rearranged the performances to start the entertainment with mic-only acts while we were waiting for the generator. She was the first up, reading two brilliant books for the youngest visitors to the park and having a dress-up competition for them.
Once again, we'd like to offer a huge round of applause and thanks to the performers from the FDYS and Sam's Collective, to singers Lili O'Brien Dobbs, Andrei Boyd and ELKAE, drumming group Bloco Garman, band Peer Pleasure, and drag stars Mockie Ah! as well as to the evening entertainers at our after party, comedian Ian Lyman, Andrei Boyd again, and the Disgraceful Cabaret. You were all absolutely brilliant. And thanks again to Wexford Arts Centre for arranging and hosting the after party. It gave the committee and volunteers a chance to unwind after a very intense few weeks.
Rían Browne (he/him, Public Relations Officer), after an intense couple of weeks of promoting the event through social and traditional media, was at the Information Desk for most of the day. He also kept an eye on social media and did some of the photography.
As for me (Vic Kelly-Victor, they/them, Treasurer), I ran around to collect donations and pay the performers, the sound crew, the first aid crew, and other people without whom the day couldn't have happened.
Including pre-event donations and donations on the day, we brought in more than we spent on the day, so we've secured our ability to keep serving our community for the months to come. Remember, if you want to donate to Wexford Pride as a private individual or as a business, contact me at wexfordpride@gmail.com and I'll let you know how.
Beyond the event, John, Veronica and Rían attended and presented at the Wexford PPN. This was an important opportunity to connect with other community groups operating in Wexford. We will continue to work on this connection with such groups in the coming months.
The fortnightly Tea on the Quay social event in Wexford and the fortnightly LGBTQIA+ Support Group at the IFA Centre in Enniscorthy continue to happen through the summer and the monthly online Book Club will be back in June. Contact Veronica at wexfordpride@gmail.com if you'd like to take part in the Book Club.
We've also been planning our Pride Protest. Pride is a protest as much as it is a celebration, and as announced on May 27, we will give voice to the County Wexford's LGBTQIA+ community in a soapbox session on the Wexford Quay on Sunday, June 18 at 2 p.m.
We've had to make some difficult decisions as well. The Pride Art Trail, originally planned for June, had to be pushed back to the autumn. As a small committee with limited resources, we couldn't make Pride in the Park and the Pride Art Trail work back-to-back — but we're still determined to showcase queer art this year so it will happen in some form.
We also had to call off the protest event planned to happen simultaneously for Enniscorthy, Gorey, New Ross, Rosslare, and Wexford as there were not enough volunteers able to make the event feasible. We still want to extend our reach to more parts of Wexford in future, and are looking for support to make that happen.
That's what your committee has been up to in the past few weeks. If you have any questions, reach out to us at wexfordpride@gmail.com
– Vic Kelly-Victor
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PRIDE IN THE PARK IN PHOTOS
A full spread of photos from the Pride in the Park celebration of 2023.
THE AFTERPARTY IN PHOTOS
The afterparty was hosted by Poppy De Scrace and the Disgraceful Cabaret. While Poppy is originally from Enniscorthy, she now lives and works in Dublin and unites queer performers from all corners of the country. The show including drag kings and burlesque performers, with guest appearances by Andrei Boyd singing originals and Ian Lynam doing stand-up. It was Wexford Pride’s first time working with Poppy and her crew and we are sure it will not be the last. Xo
Followed by seven photos from the after party.
TRANS RIGHTS IN IRELAND
VERONICA VICTOR
Trans Rights Map outlining Ireland’s current state of trans rights.
Itemised list of indicators evaluated by TGEU. Of importance are the elements not met and their impact on the well-being of trans folx. Without legal gender recognition Ireland would not have much at all.
PRIDE FLAG HISTORY
JOHN CUNNINGHAM-RYAN
It’s PRIDE month, yippee. A whole month of celebrating diversity and acceptance (in some countries) and for others a time for protest and being visual. But, what the hell is that rainbow flag all about...
Now before anyone says “I’m sick of pride month” or “why do the gays get a month of celebration”. Until LGBT+ people have EQUALITY and are SAFE all around the World there will always be a need for PRIDE month. Gay Pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to exist without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn’t a Straight Pride movement, be thankful you don’t need one. And yes, I also agree there are other issues that need highlighting too, so get off your ass and do it!
Before The Pride Flag.
A flag isn’t just a representation of a country, club or association. It is firstly borne from the need to identify oneself. This of course has been done for the wrong reasons in the past, the most notorious would be by the Nazi’s and their use of tattooing a number on a Jewish persons wrist. The Nazi’s also identified gay people with a pink triangle and lesbians and other “asocial” people with a black triangle. It’s sometimes forgotten that the Nazi’s didn’t ONLY want to rid the world of all the Jewish people. They also murdered 1,000’s of Romani people and I’m sure would have worked through all the groups that didn’t fit into their perfect world order.
Even then the patch for gay people was bright and cheerful. This pink triangle was liberated and used by the LGBT community but the connotations from the war and the holocaust could never be forgotten. Gay victims of Nazism were not officially recognised in the immediate aftermath of the Third Reich but Berlin now has a memorial to homosexuals persecuted under Nazism next to the original Jewish Holocaust Memorial site. It takes the form of a concrete cube with a slit on one side – through which visitors can see video of two men kissing.
My Pride Flag
One of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols today was created over 40 years ago by Gilbert Baker. It was against the turbulent times in the late 1970’s in America that San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person ever to be elected to public office in California, encouraged Gilbert Baker in 1977 to devise a unique symbol for the gay community – an insignia of pride capable of affirming social independence.
Baker loved the idea of using a field of stacked stripes as a symbol for many stitched together as one. The gay community, he believed, deserved a fabulous emblem entirely of its own fashioning. “We needed something beautiful,” Baker concluded, “something from us.” With his machine sewing skills (self taught drag queens always had to make their own outfits) he designed a flag of 8 stripes, two more than the version now recognised internationally as an emblem for the LGBT community – and each colour was assigned a symbolic meaning. A band of hot pink (representing sexuality) ran across the top of the flag in the original scheme, followed by red (which stood for life), then by orange (for healing), yellow (sunlight), green (nature), turquoise (art/magic), indigo (serenity/harmony), and violet (spirit) at the bottom.
Displayed for the first time in the United Nations Plaza in downtown San Francisco in June 1978, this eight-striped version was produced by a team of 30 volunteers commandeering the washing machines of a public laundromat in order to rinse the dye from the fabric and the wide attic space of a gay community centre, where the individual strips were ironed and sewn together. When Baker approached a company to mass-produce the flags, he found out that “hot pink” was not commercially available. The flag was then reduced to seven stripes.
In November 1978, San Francisco’s lesbian, gay and bisexual community was stunned when the city’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, was assassinated. Wanting to demonstrate the gay community’s strength and solidarity in the aftermath of the tragedy, the Pride Committee decided to use Baker’s flag. The indigo stripe was eliminated so that the colours could be divided evenly along the parade route - three colours on one side and three on the other. Soon the six colours were incorporated into a six-striped version that became popularised and that, today is recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers.
(It was not accidental that the day we voted for Marriage Equality in Ireland is also Harvey Milk Day - 22nd May.)
Baker died on March 31st 2017 at the age of 65 but not before an original flag got a place of honour in the World renowned New York’s MOMA (Museum of Modern Art).
After the Pulse Nightclub massacre the traditional 6-striped rainbow flag was updated to include a black and brown stripe to represent those members of our community that are People of Colour (I.e. POC). This flag was aptly named the Progress Pride Flag.
It has since evolved again to include the light blue/white/pink colours of the Transgender flag. And the addition of the purple circle on a yellow background represents the intersex members of our community
I’ll finish with this quote from Baker: “We needed something beautiful, something from us. The rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things. Plus, it’s a natural flag—it’s from the sky!”
– John Cunningham-Ryan
NOT QUITE QUEER ENOUGH?
DORN SIMON
Bisexual - from the most common Hetero point of view translates to “best of both worlds, perv or slut,” whilst, from the view of a number of the LGBTQ+ community, it is “not Queer/Lesbian/Gay ENOUGH,” particularly if presenting as being in a heteronormative relationship or marriage, and if you add in gender identity as Cis-gender, this widens the gap even more; now, this is spoken from my personal experience - just to be clear, I am NOT meaning to in any way, paint all LGBTQ+ individuals with the same brush.
I am Dorn, a 55yr old Bi, Pan, CIS Woman living in Ireland since 1988.
I have been out and open about my sexual orientation since a child, it never occurred to me it was not the ‘norm’ as if I felt it, it was real.
So, did this hinder my upbringing, young life and individuality? Not at all! Maybe it was due to becoming a teen and growing up (the latter is debatable!) in the decades of the 70s-80s, a time being the birth of overt, outspoken LGBTQ+ life, a revolution that although still deemed unacceptable, and illegal in many regions around the globe, the community and scene were forging a voice, out in the open, flamboyantly for sure, yet flagrantly at times.
The whole “Boys who do Boys and the Girls who do Girls,” was becoming the latest fad; the fashionistas, music, and identities merging with the LGBTQ+ community, whether queer or straight was a sign of the times - extremely colourful, and fun times, until, sadly it seemed shortlived and struck down by the brutal new threat on the streets, in the clubs, and in the bedroom - HIV/AIDS, but this article is not to go over that pandemic nor the painful memories from bygone days.
So, having not really had any issues with living my own bisexuality, in terms of just being Bi me, I can admit that even to this very day, I have not really been a part of “The Scene,” not because I didn’t see its value, nor due to feeling overly outcast, or that it did not resonate with me personally - it simply never crossed my path in such a way as to be involved.
Yet, I will say there was/is a slight reservation to ‘trying’ to get involved, due to the fact, I do not feel I fully qualify, if that makes sense…
…I can admit to a percentage imbalance in my bisexuality also, whereby by pure chance of heart, my relationships have been predominantly with men, both Bi and Straight, though the visual appeal/sexual attraction rate has always sided with the female.
This has led me to understand and to hear elsewhere, that one like myself could be considered “not Queer enough,” or worse, simply “Questioning.” I then ask myself why?
I love the female form, I love women for their strengths, their embodiment of a goddess, yet still, I would fall for a man!
I like my men to be effeminate admittedly yet not all have been, I have varying tastes in appearance, yet always a need for caring, intellectual, creatives to reside within.
It was sometime later when Trans, Hermes, Androgynous and Non-Binary taught me even more about myself, and what I found to be attractive, discovering that it need not be categorised at all, especially not limited to simply male or female.
But, let’s steer away from me, or my experiences of living as a bisexual female, touching upon the lifestyle without needing to be in the scene - and focus more on whether my experience is a familiar one to other individuals who identify as Bisexual, Pansexual, Cisgender - how many are out there, reading this and feeling a sense of familiarity?
How many Bi males, females, non-binary, and trans are out there living their lives, yet, either not immersed in the scene, or have that resistance to try to get involved, due to not quite fitting into one of the acronym definitions?
My generation only had LGBT, then it grew into LGBTQ, then the + was soon added, and now, well it just gets crazy confusing and long whilst simultaneously trying to be all-inclusive.
I believe it is now officially LGBTQQIP2SAA and labels such as ‘Abro’ bring the fluidity of change for those who shift between states of being. However, Bisexual is our main focus for this column.
So, being Bi is one thing, though how did you feel trying to step into or integrate into the LGBTQ+ community as a whole? Did you feel like you were Queer enough? Gay enough? Lesbian enough?
Did you believe you could fit in? Was the community or scenes lifestyle seemingly too gregarious, overtly sexualised, or shallow?
How much of a crossover did/do you feel the gender identity has with your sexual orientation?
Did being Bi bring about any confusion, or did you struggle with ‘what’ am I, or ‘which way’ am I?
The list of FAQs could go on…so this column is a space for your questions, answers, experiences, scoffs, acceptance and Bi love.
Let’s discuss! Reach out, send me any questions, and let me know what YOU want to read/hear or discuss. Email me at aiteach.wexford.pride@gmail.com
From one Bi to the others,
– Dorn Simon
IN DARKNESS
ANDREI BOYD
Self acceptance has been coming up a lot in my spiritual practice of late. And it’s getting more and more intense as I break myself open and give space to all of my energetic “insidey parts” that I have been pushing down for so long now. One of the things I have always loathed about myself is my quickness to anger. Having to jiggle
my charger about to find a connection can, at times, be enough to have me thrashing about the house cursing the Universe and everything in it.
I have a friend who can sit and weep gently as she works through her trauma. And it has always frustrated me that my divine emotion is, more often than not, rage. Not many people see it but it’s there, always, under the surface.
New-Age spirituality speaks of maintaining a high and peaceful state without fault so that you can match your energy to a dimension where peace and love are all that exist. The world will separate and the people who scorn you shall be banished to lower dimensions. So, we find people in the spiritual community terrified to feel low at the risk of being left behind. We hear “no bad vibes in this studio please” or “just focus on peace and love and you’ll be fine”. This causes people to bypass the opportunity to delve deep into their darkness and embrace an enormous part of their make-up.
Light cannot exist without darkness. Yang cannot exist without its Yin. A God cannot exist without a Devil.
Accepting the darkness within does not imply surrendering to its destructive forces. Instead, it means embracing our flaws, mistakes, and imperfections with compassion and understanding. Through this acceptance, we gain the wisdom and resilience to navigate life's challenges with grace and courage. This doesn’t mean that it won’t look messy. The experience of delving into this space is, more often than not, going to be noisy and chaotic before it becomes calm and the lesson is understood.
What if we openly acknowledged our fears, insecurities, and failures without judgment or shame? What if vulnerability was recognised as a source of strength, where self compassion and self acceptance were held in high regard, and we could let go of the pursuit of perfection. We would no longer be confined by the limitations of our unrealistic expectations, but liberated by our ability to embrace the totality of our being.
Embracing our darkness enables us to cultivate empathy and compassion, not only for ourselves, but for others too. By acknowledging our own pain and suffering, we develop a greater understanding of the struggles faced by those around us. This is particularly important as we help our fellow queers navigate a world in which we are not always acknowledged and accepted. We come together in community to support each other with a common understanding of the darkness that comes with existing as a queer person and the struggles we face in ever day life.
It must be understood that seeking to only embrace the light or ruminating only in darkness, without escape, leads to imbalance and is sure to create more problematic cycles of negative self talk and abuse. I experience this regularly. I arrive at a point where life can seem so difficult that I give up on trying to sooth myself with my inner dialogue. What’s the point? Life is just hard and there’s no point in trying to change that.
I have found that giving myself time and space to grieve the life that I wish I had and mourn for the struggles past and present has been deeply healing. There comes a point where the intensity of a particular cycle of shadow work decreases but it I still enforce negative self talk to punish myself and sabotage my growth. Herein I realise that, at times, I feel undeserving of love and project that into how I relate to myself.
Just as the Yin-Yang symbol represents the harmonious existence of opposing forces, accepting both the light and the darkness within brings us into alignment with our true nature. It grants us the freedom to authentically express our emotions, pursue our passions, and forge deeper connections with others.
Throughout this pursuit of self acceptance, it’s crucial to remember that the journey is not linear. We will stumble, we will fall, and we will experience moments of doubt. Yet, it’s through these moments that we have the opportunity to cultivate resilience and growth. Every stumble becomes a stepping stone towards a profound understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
So I invite those who read this article to paint with every colour in the box. Be sure to make use of the dark end of the pallet and let it add depth to your painting. Let your intuition be your guide. And don’t be afraid to ask for help from the universe. Speak to your Yin and your Yang, embrace your shadow and love fearlessly.
– Andrei Boyd
REDUCE TRAINING FEARS
DECLAN FLYNN
Over many years I've had conversations with people LGBTQ+ and straight on this topic of feeling comfortable going to a gym and train.
There are many that have the ability to just go to a gym and ignore others and they carry on doing with their training, while others would find the setting too much, that they don't want to stand out, they might be doing something wrong, or that they simply feel they don't fit in with the gym stereotypes.
For these people I say, you are deserving of a space to train, to improve your health be it physically or mentally. Training is a method that can help alleviate stress in body and mind. Training allows you to improve strength not just for today but for longevity in life, what we create today, benefits us tomorrow, better fitness, clearer mindset, feel more confident and empowered.
I used the gym to get rid of mental stresses over the years, be it things that would make me feel low, but once I got into a rhythm of training it improved the situation and I felt great afterwards.
The fitness industry has many stereotypes from training types to instructor types , some are serious bodybuilders, drill instructors that can look intimidating to approach while others are average people that just want to help you improve health and wellness in a manner that is more empathic and understanding in their approach.
If you feel still that a standard gym setting is still too much there's many other options, getting basic equipment workout at home or in a park, reach out to a lgbt trainer that you may feel comfortable talking to, speaking with Sporting Pride Ireland for recommendations, we all deserve an opportunity to improve ourselves and still be seen for who we are too. There is no need to hide your uniqueness and true identity.
What I am endeavouring to do with my work as an online coach and personal trainer is to work with people that what to make improvements to their health and fitness levels, I want to be available to work with those that may feel all other settings and ways won't work for them, and that having somewhat of an understanding of some of the LGBTQ mindset, that there would be common ground to work from and feel confident and comfortable to train and smashing goals, that may at a time felt impossible.
– Declan Flynn
ART
SIVE Ó BOLGUIDHIR
I described myself and some of my people with charcoal in a series of portraits for a recent Gorey Scool of Art exhibition. Looking closely at the faces of others brought to the surface all sorts of feelings, mainly empathy and curiosity. And drawing myself, although it was emotionally taxing, became a healing inquiry into self-image that led to more self-acceptance.
The drawings are a record of the non verbal exchanges I had with myself and others as we sat opposite each other. Many of the drawings are quick studies, smudged and torn, sometimes distorted and stinking of hairspray where I ran out of fixative. I am grateful to my queer friends, who have taught me so much about our community, who were the inspiration for this project, and whose lives I endeavour to continue to celebrate in art.
– Sive Ó Bolguidhir
Sive’s artwork is a series of charcoal and graphite sketches of people.
POETRY
DORN SIMON
Hop Down the Rabbit Hole
It’s where I wish to be
Hop on down where no-one can see
The brutal pain of complexity
That which never abandons me
Down the Rabbit Hole
Who wants to come?
None!
Who could blame them!
Though I hear you there, through the dusty dirt
As you too lay hidden and hurt
I not alone, though feel to be
Oft wanting it, to be completely free
Life longed seeking to find mate of same
Only realising, it clashes untamed
Too much of one, or of another
Being the same can be a bother
Run now run, like Reynard the Fox
Seeking that refuge that one’s not got
Hopping in spurts from over exert
Down the Rabbit Hole fall
In the darkness it’s all so quiet
A peaceful numbing counters it
Dreams of chemical induced ideals
Give you those awfully good feels
Here you can be whomever you wish
Creating a recipe for your own dish
Ingredients of your own choosing
People you delude self into never losing
A happy place, if just for an hour
A chosen face, so milk doesn’t sour
Serotonin and dopamine shake
Gearing you up for realities sake
An average day, I confess, no, digress
Unashamed, as adds to my test
The cryptic message new each day
How to survive, in what way?
Others travel this cobbled stone
Twisting ankles, they not alone
Running barefoot, hungry as hell
Millions with nowhere to dwell
Closer still, a passing looms
There I sit drowned by doom
How She’d love to have my health
As I dream of end with stealth
Juxtaposed, duplicity
Never ending serendipity
All in my life, designed by theoi
To illuminate my path, show me how
The lights too bright, I scream in protest
The dark I know, as I’ve processed
Each shadowy corner, to know it’s shape
I know the difference between heaven and hell’s gate
He says I’m hermetically sealed
This is true in many fields
The life I lead, is in my head
I simply want to live it instead
Contradiction, another asset
I have many I can profess
Holding the gems or profound skills
Means little, if unable to pay bills
White noise consumes me
Buzzing in my head
Giving a rhythm, to keep up this thread
Opportunity knocks galore, if only I can move to open that door!
– Dorn Simon
POETRY
MX. ADAM KHAN
Pride
Pride is not a performative action
Reducde to the month of June
Come July, the rainbows face redaction
Pride is every minute of every day for our community
With thousands of prides across the world
Celebrating every month in unity
Pride is not just a rainbow rebrand
Changing packaging and pictures of profit
Performative inclusivity, deafeningly loud like a brass band
Pride is intrinsically part of our identity
It’s idiosyncratic and always valid
Regardless of presentation, no matter the ambiguity
Pride is not exclusive
To any part of our collective
As gatekeeping is intrusive
Pride is diverse and intersectional
Inclusive of any and all
With no judgement, it’s rational
Pride is not just a celebratoon
A Western-lensed party
Or a capitalist decoration
Pride is always a protest
Rejecting cisheteronormativity
As part of the community, we attest
– Mx Adam Khan
POETRY
MX. ADAM KHAN
What a Drag!
A homophobe calls me a fag,
Though camp, you won’t see me in drag.
Yet inside the closet
He tells me I look fit,
So my gift for him is a shag
– Mx Adam Khan
EVENTS
County Wexford LGBTQIA+ Community Support Group
Fortnightly Mondays 7pm
June 12, 26
July 2, 16, 30
IFA Centre Enniscorthy
There’s always a place for you here.
A confidential, contracted space for offering and receiving peer support. Facilitated by an in-community student therapist.
Wexford Pride Montly Bookclub
Contact wexfordpride@gmail.com
Last month: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
This month: The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Tea on the Quay
at the Trough on Cressent quay
Fortnightly Sundays 2pm
June 4, 18
Funds available for those in need of a cuppa.
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QUOTE:
Leslie Feinberg
1949 - 2014
Stone Butch Blues, 1993
“I wondered if I was brave enough to grow up and be her.”