Comments on: Upswing http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: June23 http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47513 June23 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:50:35 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47513 Well done, Ireland! I wish I lived in a country dedicated to freedom and equality for all. But I'm stuck here in the United States. Please send help! Well done, Ireland! I wish I lived in a country dedicated to freedom and equality for all. But I’m stuck here in the United States. Please send help!

]]> By: pugwall http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47505 pugwall Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:10:06 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47505 Attitudes are difinately changing alright... But the government will more than likely introduce civil partnership as opposed to gay marriage. Second class citizens and all that jazz.... Attitudes are difinately changing alright… But the government will more than likely introduce civil partnership as opposed to gay marriage. Second class citizens and all that jazz….

]]> By: CitizenGeek http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47475 CitizenGeek Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:32:58 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/upswing-20080401/#comment-47475 That's nice to know! The new government (who aren't really 'new', they were just re-elected and took on the Green Party instead of the Progressive Democrats as coalition partners this time) has promised to legislate for gay civil partnerships before 2008 is out, too (though I doubt that'll actually happen, I still trust that it will eventually be introduced) here. Yay! There was an elderly mother complaining about the fact that though her lesbian daughter had been with her partner for 13 years, they were strangers under the law last Friday on the Late Late Show (the most watched programme in Ireland), so it's definitely getting the media coverage! All of the major political parties here have made it very clear that they are fully in favour of gay rights; our Prime Minister even officially opened GLEN's (Irish gay organisation) new HQ last year :) That’s nice to know! The new government (who aren’t really ‘new’, they were just re-elected and took on the Green Party instead of the Progressive Democrats as coalition partners this time) has promised to legislate for gay civil partnerships before 2008 is out, too (though I doubt that’ll actually happen, I still trust that it will eventually be introduced) here. Yay! There was an elderly mother complaining about the fact that though her lesbian daughter had been with her partner for 13 years, they were strangers under the law last Friday on the Late Late Show (the most watched programme in Ireland), so it’s definitely getting the media coverage!

All of the major political parties here have made it very clear that they are fully in favour of gay rights; our Prime Minister even officially opened GLEN’s (Irish gay organisation) new HQ last year :)

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