To mark the 40th anniversary of Ireland’s first official Pride parade, Patrick Freyne and Una Mullally hear the stories of some of the people who took part
Edmund Lynch:
On the 27th of June, 1974, David Norris and others attended the first Dublin gay rights demonstration. Photograph: Gareth Miller/Irish Queer ArchiveThere was a Gay Association International conference in 1981 and Ireland had three gay organisations represented. Italy hadI was a founding member of the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Men’s Collective [initially the Dublin Gay Collective] formed in around 1981.
Dublin Gay Collective at a demonstration against the 8th amendment, 1982. Photograph: Cathal Kerrigan The first official Pride march in Dublin met at St Stephen's Green and marched to the GPO on June 25th, 1983. Photograph: Irish Queer ArchiveI think if the Fairview Park march hadn’t happened, there would not have been a Pride march in Dublin as early as that.The attitudes of the Gardaí, and especially the judge, brought the harsh reality of gay lives in the 70s and 80s into sharp focus and made straight people aware of the violence and discrimination that gay people suffered.
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