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Queerbash V 22nd Feb 2008
OUT IN UL-The University of Limerick’s Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Society presents ‘QUEERBASH V’
Out In UL, the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Society in the University of Limerick, will be hosting the 5th Annual Queerbash event on Friday 22nd February 2008 in Baker’s Place & Underground, Limerick. ‘Queerbash’ is a fundraising and social event for the LGBT community in Limerick and the Mid-West.
Queerbash 5 is geared up to be another success, as it has been for the previous 4 years. It will build on these achievements by continuing to use the event as a means for Outreach within the Lesbian, Gay & Bi-Sexual Community in the Mid-West, but also to those who are straight who just want to come along for a fantastic evening of fun in a safe and controlled environment. There will be 2 DJ’s downstairs battling it out, whilst a Charity Auction will take place, with all proceeds going to Rainbow Support Services-an LGBT resource Centre in Limerick City.
Out In UL, provides support for the LGB students on the campus of UL, as well as an active awareness program of LGB issues, chief among which lies the concept of Violence towards the Gay community. The title of the event, “Queerbash”, represents a recognition of this violence, which is still ongoing within our society-Some 41% of people in a 2006 survey on Hate Crimes claimed to be a victim. Of that group, nearly 50% suffered a Physical Attack. (Source: Johnny, Hate Crimes Report 2006, Dublin: 2006). Queerbash is about raising the profile of such attacks and reneging the victim status which becomes attached to a person who has been attacked because of their sexual orientation.
The Society is also involved with other LGBT’s across the country, many of whom will be in attendance at this event which is one of the longest run & premier student-run LGBT events in the country.
The Event will be run this year in conjunction with “Baby Blue Training” Conference, which is another LGBT event being hosted by Out In UL, with support from NUI Maynooth and Kildare LGBT this year. This Conference will feature workshops, discussions on various LGBT issues arising in Ireland including city vs country life, Civil Marriage Rights and Health Issues.
Tickets cost 5EUR before 11pm and 8EUR after. For further information contact outinul@yahoo.ie or see http://heaven.skynet.ie
Key Facts:
- Date: 22nd February 2008.
- Venue: Baker Place/Underground, Limerick.
- 5th Anniversary of ‘Queerbash’ which grows more successful and bigger every year.
- Event is for all persons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual or Straight, of an open mindset.
- Being run as part of ‘Baby Blue Training’, an LGBT Conference with NUIM & Kildare LGBT.
Santa’s Big Gay Snowballs 2007
Well for those that don’t know this was Out in UL’s Christmas/Yule party, new last year!!!
This year it’s taking place on Thu Dec 6 from 9.30pm - yes, a party during Reading week! So a perfect time for when the brain is almost fried and you need to just relax and get out and have some fun!
It’s on in Bubblicious (aka Bar 3, Nevada Smiths…) on Bedford Row - Click here for a map
Limerick Gay Pride 2007
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Limerick Gay Pride 2007 |
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August 27th—September 2nd 2007
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Mon 27th |
Tue 28th |
Wed 29th |
Thur 30th |
Fri 31st |
Saturday 1st |
Sunday 2nd |
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9am Bubblicious Pride Breakfast |
9am Bubblicious Pride Breakfast |
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6pm Belltable Garden Party Art Exhibition.
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Belltable Garden Party Art Exhibition.
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Belltable Garden Party Art Exhibition.
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Belltable Garden Party Art Exhibition.
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Belltable Garden Party Art Exhibition.
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11am Pride Parade Limerick City
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11.30 am Limerick Historic City Walk
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7pm Belltable Launch of Garden Party Free Cheese & Wine |
8pm Belltable Gay Men’s Film ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ €6 |
8pm Belltable Lesbian Film ‘Goldfish Memory’ €6 |
8pm Belltable Gay & Lesbian themed Film ‘Shortbus’ €6 |
8pm Best Western Pery’s Hotel Black &White Masquerade Ball. Tickets €50 from Rainbow |
12 am Rainbow-Leamy House Pride Festival Arts, Street theatre, music, magic, pool competition, etc |
1pm Bubblicious B.B.Q |
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10pm Bubblicious
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10pm Bubblicious Film theme night disco. |
10pm Bubblicious Film theme night disco. |
10pm Bubblicious Film theme night disco. |
9pm Bubblicious Pre-Pride Parade Disco |
8pm Belltable Theatre Topping & Butch’s ‘Filth’ Tickets €15-€20 from Belltable |
3pm Bubblicious Camp Bingo with prizes |
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10pm Bubblicious Club Wilde Pride Party Queer Comedy then disco On door €5 |
1pm Murroe Garden Party & Art Auction Tickets €65 from Rainbow |
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9pm Bubblicious Pride Post Party |
General Information on Limerick Gay Pride
Getting depressed that the Pride session is coming to an end? don’t. Come to Limerick Pride for the big climax of the Prides. Limerick has re-discovered Gay Pride and this year will be the biggest ever Pride to have hit Limerick.
Limerick City is known as the City of culture and we have kept that theme for Limerick Pride, celebrating Queer culture as well as a positive celebration and increased visibility of the Queer community in Limerick.
From the 27th August to the 2nd September is a feast of different events. The Limerick Gay Pride Parade will be marching through the streets of Limerick city on Saturday 1st September. Our other main highlights are Topping and Butch, White and Black Masquerade Gay Ball, Gay and Lesbian Films and the Garden party Art Auction with Nell McCafferty and ‘Gloria’. For details of times and the other events please see the Limerick Gay Pride timetable. For more information and tickets and discount hotel accommodation please phone Vanessa at Rainbow support Services on 061 468611 or 087 9310252 or e-mail rainbowlmk@eircom.net
Limerick Gay Pride would not be possible without the hard work and commitment of the Gay Pride committee. Thanks goes to Paddy Doyle, Karl Wallace from Belltable, Miriam Lohan from Limerick Youth Theatre, Bob O’Connell from Bar 3 Bubblious, Billie from Red Ribbon Project and Vanessa and Janet from Rainbow Support Services.
Limerick Gay Pride Parade and Festival
Saturday 1st September
Limerick Pride Parade
Starting at Limerick Town hall at 11am, through the main streets of Limerick and finishing at Rainbow Support Services, Leamy House. The Parade will be full of colour, floats, the gay community and straight community. All showing Limerick city that we are here, queer and proud. All are welcome to join in the fun of the parade, just turn up and dress up.
Limerick Pride Festival
At Rainbow support Services, Leamy House, Hartstonge Street.
12 noon to 5pm
A festival of live music, street theatre, magicians, stilt walkers, jugglers, tea dancing, pool competition … Fun colourful afternoon inside and outside Leamy House for all ages. Keeping the buzz of the Pride.
We request the honor of your presence at our
White & Black Masquerade Ball
To be held at the
Best Western Pery’s Hotel Ballroom
Costume or formal dress is strongly encouraged.
The Ball includes a formal sit down
three course meal with
top class entertainment throughout the evening
On the evening of
Friday 31st August 2007
At the time of
8pm-1.30am
Tickets €50 available from Rainbow Support Services 061 468611 or
087 9310252
Limited places, advise to book tickets early.
More information and discounts on accommodation at Best Western Hotel phone Rainbow Support Services
September 2nd
Garden Party & Art Auction
Garden opens at 1pm.
Nell McCafferty will open the auction at 2pm.
You will be treated to a fine ensemble of jazz, food/wine, art and fun and special guests ‘Gloria’ Dublin’s Gay and Lesbian Choir will also be performing.
You will gaze in admiration at our resident auctioneer Nigel, and his Drag Queens as they skilfully work the room in the sale of art. We have a wonderfully high standard of art donations from both international and local artists. The art sales will help to provide the financial means to continue to support Rainbow Support Services in supporting the LGBT community in the Mid West. This day is also a
medium through which people are brought together in support of a common cause. For a guaranteed day of fun.
At a private location in Murroe, Co Limerick
Tickets €65 available at Rainbow Support Services 061 468611 or 087 9310252
Garden Party & Art Auction Launch will be at the Belltable Theatre on 27th August @ 7pm, Free wine and cheese with viewings of the art work. The art work will be display throughout the Pride week at the Belltable.
TOPPING & BUTCH’s
FILTH!
1st September
Saturday 1st September 8pm
BELLTABLE AND LIMERICK PRIDE
TOPPING & BUTCH’s
FILTH!
A LIMERICK PRIDE SPECIAL
And you thought that the other prides had kicked ass… well in true Limerick style save the best till last with two of the most sought after Comedians on the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Circuit.
Described as “Fun, fliratious and delightfully silly” The Independent this world class comedy Duo show off to their first Irish Audience as part of the final closing celebrations of
Limerick Pride for the week.
An outrageous mix of very naughty stand-up and songs from their hit sell-out Edinburgh Show.
Come and see Award-winning Topping & Butch as you’ve never seen them before. Contains references to heterosexual sex.
Not suitable for children.
“This is Topping & Butch and their best” The Scotsman
“You’d have to be a member of Christian Voice not to laugh.”
“Keenly observed and very funny” Melbourne Age
Tickets €20/18con Early Bird €15 available from
Belltable Theatre 69 O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Tel 061 319 866
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
28th August
Tuesday 28th August 8pm
BELLTABLE AND LIMERICK PRIDE
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
USA 2001/95 minutes
Dir: John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Alberta Watson
Adapted from the critically acclaimed off Broadway hit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of an ‘internationally ignored’ rock singer, Hedwig and her search for stardom and love. Born a boy named Hansel whose life’s dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change
operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
Tickets €6 on the night
Belltable Theatre 69 O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Tel 061 319 866
Goldfish Memory
29th August
Wednesday 29th August 8pm
BELLTABLE AND LIMERICK PRIDE
Goldfish Memory
Ireland/UK 2003/ 86minutes
Dir: Liz Gill
Flora Montgomery, Keith McErlean, Fiona O’ Shaughnessy, Justine Mitchell, Jean Butler, Sean Campion, Peter Gaynor
Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin. When Clara catches her boyfriend Tom getting off with another girl, it sets off a chain reaction of romances and heartbreak with each character trying to solve the pressing question of what is the perfect relationship! Some favour marriage, others a week-at-a-time arrangement. The only thing they all agree on is that love is one thing they cannot live without. Falling in love, out of love and making the same mistakes over and over again - we all say we learn from heartbreak but how many of us change?
Exploring the comical nature of love, straight, gay and in-between, Goldfish Memory brings life to the saying what goes ‘round comes ‘round…and ‘round…
Tickets €6 on the night
Belltable Theatre 69 O’Connell Street, Limerick. Tel 061 319 866
Shortbus
30th August
Thursday 29th August 8pm
BELLTABLE AND LIMERICK PRIDE
Shortbus
USA 2006/ 102 minutes
Dir: John Cameron Mitchell
Justin Bond, Lindsay Beamish, PJ Deboy, Raphael Barker, Jay Brannan, Peter Stickles, Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson
Shortbus follows various New York City characters as they
navigate the comic/tragic intersections between sex and love in and around a modern-day polysexual underground salon called Shortbus.
Sofia is a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm. She’s been faking for years with her husband Rob. She meets Severin, a female dominatrix who tries to help her. Sofia’s clients include James and Jamie, who are starting to open up their relationship sexually. James suggests a three-way relationship with Ceth ;
Jamie is reluctant. James seems to have a hidden agenda. His plans are witnessed by a stalker named Caleb. All the characters converge on Shortbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics and sex.
The film suggests new strategies for reconciling the unique pressures of post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City life with questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and
imperatives of the heart.
Tickets €6 on the night
Belltable Theatre 69 O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Tel 061 319 866
La Boutique
Pre-Pride Party
Saturday 25th August
10pm-til late
La Boutique gets jazzy with the Dave Irwin trio, wine and nibbles. Alternative Miss Limerick Celine. Then 100% clubbing with Pat until late. So make sure to dust down your best frock (or just buy a new one- why not, it’s Pride).
www.bebo.com/laboutiquelimerick
Bubblicious Bar Celebrates Pride Week
27th August-2nd September
Every morning from 9am Pride breakfast at the bar
Monday 27th Disco with DJ 10pm
Tues 28th Film theme ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ disco 10pm
Wednes 29th Film theme ‘Goldfish Memory’ disco 10pm
Thurs 30th Film theme ‘Shortbus’ disco 10pm
Fri 31st Pre-Pride Parade Disco 9pm
Satur 1st Club Wilde Pride Party Queer Comedy then disco 10pm
Sunday 2nd .B.B.Q 1pm Camp Bingo 3pm then
Post Pride Party 9pm
‘Lights On Up Front, Dark Down The Back’
Padraig Robinson
5th –10th September
Wednesday 5th-10th September
BELLTABLE AND LIMERICK PRIDE
‘Lights On Up Front, Dark Down The Back’
Padraig Robinson
Official Opening Wednesday 5th September 7pm
Belltable Arts Centre Visual Arts Gallery
Limerick Pride are delighted to be associated with Artist Padraig Robinson, whose first solo exhibition is being shown at the Belltable Arts Centre Limerick and is an associated event of the Pride Festival here in Limerick running till the middle of October.
Padraig is a promising and emerging visual artist whose
practice is concerned with subverting identity and hierarchies within and around various cultural contexts such as contemporary queer/non ‘normative’ culture. Using the odd, extreme and non-digestible the work Padraig is exploring aims to create a disruptive situation to mechanized/normalised experience, opening a reflective dialogue. Dislocating representation as such is a way to test and debate the notion of parodic cultural identity, exploring moral concepts such as subject/object,
nature/nurture, virtual/real, style/reality and good taste/bad taste.
The work is kindly supported by Rainbow Support Services Limerick and Limerick Pride Festival.
Limerick Gay Pride 2007 is sponsored and
supported by Rainbow Support Services and the Belltable.
Any donations made on Pride will go to Rainbow Support Services to enable them to continue with Rainbows work of supporting the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual community and their family and friends in the Mid-West region.
It is hoped that Limerick Gay Pride 2008 will gain its own sponsorship so that it came become its own association, with donations going to the following Limerick Gay Prides in future years to come.
For more information on Rainbow Support Services and/or Limerick Gay Pride please phone:
087 9310252 or check out www.myspace.com/rainbowsupportservices
Leamy House
Hartstonge Street
Limerick
For support and information contact the
confidential Helplines:
(061) 310 101
Tues & Wednes
7.30pm to 9.30 pm
Or during office hours
Queerbash IV - 2007
‘Queerbash’ operates on an Outreach basis and its whole premise, is to bring together all communities, gay and straight, in a safe and controlled environment.
Out In UL, provides support for the LGBT students on the campus of UL, as well as an active awareness program of LGBT issues, chief among which lies the concept of Violence towards the Gay community, hence the name “Queerbash”. The Society is also involved with other LGBT’s across the country, many of whom will be in attendance at this event which is one of the longest run & most premier student-run LGBT events in the country.
Tickets cost 8EUR and will be available on the door on the night. For more information please contact outinul@yahoo.ie or go to http://heaven.skynet.ie
Coming Out Workshop
This workshop is to help those struggling with coming out. Objectives for each participant include learning about the process, learning how to better deal with challenges faced in one's journey, and connecting with others who share the same struggle.