r/LGBTireland

Me and my friends decided to go have some fun this weekend and we ended up at The George. I was feeling great, just on the dance floor and OUT OF NOWHERE I blacked out and started to pass out on stage. Thank God I wasn’t alone. My friends told me was super unconscious and could barely speak, then I started throwing up for half an hour. I just want somehow let people aware that this happened with my this weekend and I could be anyone else. Be super careful with your drinks and if you’re alone and you’re not feeling well yourself report to the staff so they can help you. It was terrifying passing through this. God knows what would’ve happened if I was alone where I would wake up and in what conditions!!!

hey!! my name is Atlas, I'm a 24 year old butch from Spain and I moved to Cork a few days ago. I wanna meet some other cool lesbians and i dont know where to start so ig reddit is a good first step lmao

30F been out since my teens. I’m comfortable being gay overall, but I’ve noticed something I can’t quite shake. I always say I’m gay rather than lesbian, and I feel a real discomfort or cringe when I try to use that word for myself. Probably sounds abit stupid. I also tend to joke about gay/lesbian stuff a lot, including myself.
Lately I’ve started wondering if there’s a bit of internalised homophobia or leftover shame in there somewhere. Not that I’m not okay being gay, but more like certain labels still bring up embarrassment or discomfort I don’t fully understand.

Hi I'm a 28 year old asexual where in cork city can I hangout to feel safe and talk to people in the LGBT community because I would love to make some friends.

I'm a Texan living in Dublin, and it's time for some new adult products. In the States, I bought from a local, queer-owned store that carried ethical products - is there anything like that here, or am I stuck just ordering online?

I know how this sounds, but I’m so glad Pride is over.

Every year, the same creeps come out of the woodwork on social media, shrieking about “children at pride” (teenagers at the parade, if they knew about the actual family pride event they’d probably have a stroke) and how queer people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. It’s not tucked away on weird far right pages, it’s the homophobe brigade on mainstream media, and I can’t even convince myself it’s just bots because, well, bots would be more coherent?

I had to deactivate and uninstall facebook for the month so I could continue to convince myself that the general population doesn’t believe I’m harming my children by (checks notes) existing while queer.

Anyone else find the hate these days is drowning the positivity?

I'm a 27 year old, queer neurodivergent and mixed Algerian-Irish artist native to Ireland, and I'd just like to build more of a community of like minded people around me.

If you know of any groups or groupchats I could join please let me know or pass my message onto someone that may know. I'm looking to join or make a queer arab/swana groupchat or group, or maybe a diversity-inclusive neurodivergent group/gc.

Please share on or DM if interested: I'll let you know what I find or if I make a group myself.

I’ve seen a few posts about feeling lonely around pride, I’ve honestly been feeling the same myself.

Feeling disconnected from my community when it really should be a day to go out and feel fully seen.

Dating apps are exhausting and situationships leave us feeling disposable.
If you’re not trying to avoid the 4 gay bars for risk of running into your ex, the bars don’t feel as welcoming as they used to be, the George especially feels like it’s attracting so many college students the last few years.
I’ll admit it’s great we have other community spaces like the outhouse, or gay sports clubs, does anyone have any other recs?

Feel free to pop me a message if you’d like to chat ✌️

Or possibly social based groups for adults over 40. Would love to connect more with others in the LGBTQ in Ireland. Not looking for dating groups btw, as I'm happily married, just looking to meet ore like minded LGBTQ people.

And I mean everyone 💕

Everyone out celebrating, everyone watching from home, my trans siblings, my bisexuals in “hetero” presenting relationships, my allies, the guy sat beside me in the chair-o-planes who complimented my hair,

Everyone! I hope we all had a lovely day and let’s keep the gorgeous community feeling going for the year.

Love you all 💕

Is there any information on the time and location for the far right protest that will be in Dublin? I'm kinda worried as I will be joining pride. Not sure if I should go, don't wanna lose my life or assaulted.

I hope everyone is having a good day so far. 😊

I had intended to travel into Dublin today for my first Pride Parade, but I wasn't feeling well and I had nobody to go with so I decided not to.

Experiencing chronic loneliness and feeling sad. 😔

I'm sorry this is depressing but I saw this comment on Facebook and it's taken over my whole brain and I just need to put it somewhere.

A politician posted about pride and a man left an angry comment, he was basically furious the politician had gone to Pride but had done nothing during the fuel protest.

And honestly he has a point...Why weren't more politicians posting then ? And wasn't the original Pride a protest? Why are we letting politicians attend Pride when they don't represent not just our rights and any of our rights?

Which lead me to thinking about the fuel protest and what a wasted opportunity it was, imagine if instead of Pride we'd joined the fuel protests? Is it not in part why we even have Pride every year? I know the majority of people wouldn't have wanted us there but wouldn't it have shown a unity to the actual people we're protesting against?

How many corporations are now taking part?

They want us divided and they're succeeding and it just sucks. We're stronger as a community than ever which I'm so happy about but as society... They could not have ignored all of us.

And now with pride at least some of them would've remembered that we were there, being our delightfully colourful selves protesting with them and impossible to ignore

But in the end the bigots took over, though I suppose in a way we would've done the same thing had we come into too hard.

Maybe I'm being just being idealistic but the idea literally won't go away so I'd love to get some other perspectives

I didn’t go anywhere because I hate myself and have no capacity for joy. Anything I should do now other than stay in and drink?

Hi all!

I didn’t really know what flair to put for this, so I just went with the seeking advice one.

Anyway, I’m a queer/bi, trans woman, medical doctor, and photographer who will be in Ireland from July 5 till July 18th. My first week is largely unplanned, with a hotel booked in Dublin for a few days and then I’m playing it by ear. The second week is mostly in Waterford for the world GAA games (photographing, not playing, although I used to play).

I’d love to meet and chat with people, as well as be shown any favorite queer spaces. In particular, I’d love to learn/hear about your experiences with the healthcare system, especially from trans people.

If you’d like to do a photo shoot or photo walk, I’m also game. I’ll have way too much camera gear with me including small strobes and film cameras.

I’m willing to travel a bit and *may* rent a car, although driving feels a little stressful for me.

If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to shoot me a message. If you don’t want to meet a random person, I TOTALLY understand. This is not for hook ups or anything. I just enjoy befriending lovely people. 🙂

Hi guys, i had a run in with a guy today who complimented my outfit and stuff in Merrion square after the parade. Throughout the rest of the day we kept passing by eachother and just exchanging glances and stuff. I was too nervous to talk to him, i was with my friend at the time but i really regret it now.

He was wearing some red and black, it was like a ripped top with some red in his hair, maybe 18/19(?) he was with a group of girls. At the time, he was sitting near enough to the entrance on the left as you walked in.

Please help if you know anything. If you are him, i was the silver guy 🫠

P. S. Ik this is the biggest long shot ever

We had already put in train our move to Wexford from New Zealand, for a mix of family and professional reasons, when we learnt that Wexford is something of a GP desert. I'm lucky that all my GPs since the 80s have been (like me) gay men. Haven't needed to "unpack" things nor have I had to "educate" them out of any active or passive queerphobia. And the care has been, with exceptions, really great. In the wider health systems? I've had to do a lot of self-advocacy and offered a lot of just-in-time "don't be a homohater" training to service providers. Rarely nurses, I gotta say. Nurses for the most part are just fucking awesome.

But I digress.

My kiwi GP sent me on my way with 3 months supply of all my medications, including PREP and DoxyPep. That allowed me to focus on a bunch of other things related to migration in the first couple of months. But when I was about start using my month 3 meds, my anxiety increased and I started to strategise about finding a GP.

I found two Wexford town GP practices that ostensibly provided queer health, but neither was taking new patients nor a waitlist. I decided to try our local village GP. When I explained we had moved into the village itself, and identify my (RIP) father-in-law as a former patient, the reception folks said they'd ask the doctor and to rink back the next afternoon. I did and she said yes. GP registration FTW! A few weeks later I booked an appointment for this week.

It was all very stressful and I didn't sleep well the night before. I went in doing a lot of mindfulness and being ready for a challenging conversation. Which didn't happen. I explained what PREP and DoxyPEP are and that those are sorted via the clinic in Dublin: she asked for the details in case she needs to refer anyone else! Mental health meds, no negativity either. A few hours later I was picking up all my drugs, which ended up costing just below the €80 maximum for any given month.

So it went much better than I feared. Now we just need to elect a government that genuinely will make SlainteCare happen ASAP. Paying for a GP still irks me.