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TEXT OF SPEECH BY TONIE WALSH, GRAND MARSHAL OF DUBLIN LGBT PRIDE PARADE, DELIVERED AT WOOD QUAY ON MIDSUMMER DAY, 21st JUNE 2008
Love and friendship have brought us here together.
It is the bond that keeps us together: Being real and brave enough and honest enough to choose whom we love and how we love.
Surely this is the most natural thing in the world; the social, emotional and sexual imperative that drives every single human being.
And if love and friendship is the bond that binds us, it is also without doubt the foundation of our communities, the bedrock of our amazing Rainbow Society we see all around us today, indeed every day as we go about our lives.
Our commitment to love and friendship has taken us through extraordinary, often difficult and sometimes bloody times. It sustains us when we feel like giving up or when we just can't cope with the hurt, the silly ignorance and viciousness that still lingers out there - thankfully not as much any more and, more importantly, no longer tolerated on a legal level.
And on that point it seems appropriate to give thanks to two successful campaigning civil rights organisations - GLEN (Gay & Lesbian Equality Network, celebrating its 20th anniversary this Summer) and the National Lesbian & Gay Federation - that have spearheaded and directed the inevitable and rightful movement for equality legislation, etc.
Haven't we come the distance!
But spare a moment for our brothers and sisters who would love to be here today with us, and who just can't get it together; who are witnessing this incredible day - week - in all its glory, this Irish Gay Pride Day, from the comfort zone of their armchair, with only Bryan Dobson's three minute commentary on Six One News or possibly a fleeting mention on TV3 and TG4 for company.
Spare a thought for those people. We were once those people. So let's not get too smug as we wallow in our queer fabulousness.
Every single one of us has been, at some time or another, the underdog, the unrepresented, the shamefully marginalized and the invisible.
Our personal and collective journey through outrageous oppression and repression, through hard moments that overwhelmed some along the way, has brought us to this point. We have all travelled what at times may have seemed like a very long journey to get here, carried on the backs of hundreds and thousands gone before us, our brave and noble brothers and sisters who refused to accept second class citizenship - who battled relentlessly to overcome ignorance, fear and violence. Our brothers and sisters who dared to be different, who dared to come out of their closet and dream of a new world for all.
On this day of days, this 25th anniversary, let us remember with love and gratitude their sacrifice and determination as we go forward together on our journey of discovery and liberation, remembering that the next generation - homo and hetero - is counting on us.
And so we find ourselves at this point, having arrived mainly through our own resourcefulness, our own creativity, our own anger and determination; and we've done it all with considerable good grace, humour and generosity.
This gives us a particular perspective on other disadvantaged people in Irish society. This gives us a particular responsibility to share our unique queer identity - our very special way of looking at the world - with the whole of Irish society.
We have changed and are changing our world; now let's do it for Dublin and Ireland.
Let's make this ancient place a thoroughly diverse, exciting and colourful and creative city. Let's bring it to a new place in the 21st century.
It's time to leave the ghetto - our comfort bubble - behind.
It's time to share Dublin Pride - as surely as we've been doing these past twenty-five years - with all our hetero brothers and sisters [BTW, I've no doubt some of them are crying out for a little bit of queer fabulousness in their lives].
And it's time to put it up to Dublin City Council to whole-heartedly embrace Pride and turn it into the Midsummer Mardi Gras with a Big Gay Heart that this city so needs and deserves.
We still have unfinished business (and thank you GLEN, LGBT Noise and all the other voluntary sector groups for reminding us so forcefully of that business). Specifically I'm thinking here of marriage and partnership rights. And also something that doesn't get enough respect and attention: sorting it out for the trans men and women in our society.
[Thank God, they've finally decided to trust lesbians and gay men and jump on our bandwagon!]
Let us not forget that they too are part of our family, our Rainbow Society.
But I feel some people have yet to get the message, so I ask you all today, on this day of days, this magical Midsummer Day - An Ghrianstad Aerach - to make a solemn declaration and renew our love to each other and to start a new contract with our city.
So I declare to you: To Be Queer is To Be Special.
Tonie Walsh- Grand Marshal of Pride 25
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Maria McKee. a self confessed married christian lady performs some classics
Brian Kennedy's first performance at a Pride March
The Pride committee getting ready for the tidy up od DCC amphitheatre
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fly the flag
and the crowd went bananas !
just do it...
Well done folks !
http://index.hu/video/2008/07/05/meleg_tuntetes/