Labour LGBT

board is meeting in today and will feature discussion on the strategic plan for 2026-2028, budgets, & internal and external communications plans

We had a well attended and successful AGM today for Labour LGBT! We have a full new Executive Committee ready for the next year.

Our new co-chairs are &

Rainbow Rose General Assembly 2025 in Dublin! 🇮🇪

Ourselves in Labour LGBTQ+ were delighted and proud to host Rainbow Rose this weekend in Dublin for their 2025 General Assembly!

We began on Friday with a short trip to Leinster House, followed by our evening panel discussion. The evening session was launched with a warm, welcome address from our Labour Party Chairperson Lisa Connell and our panelists gave detailed, nuanced looks at where Ireland currently standards following the 10 year anniversaries of advances in same-sex marriage, same-sex family recognition, and legal gender recognition, and the challenges still faced by the LGBTQ+ community, in particular, the trans community's access to healthcare.

Thank you to our panellists, Brian Sheehan, Dr. Claire O'Connell, and Jes Black from Trans Healthcare Action for attending and their contributions.

Our Saturday assembly had many spirited contributions and debates with updates from across Europe about the fights (and successes) still ongoing for true LGBTQ+ equality.

Thank you to Sara Philips for her wonderful workshop on the misinformation and misconceptions about the trans community and how better allyship can be nurtured among the wider q***r community and other allies.

Thank you to local TD and Labour Party Health Spokesperson Marie Sherlock TD for her address and talk about the work the Labour Party is doing in terms of highlighting the hardship and difficulties faced by the trans community seeking access to healthcare.

Thank you to Labour Party leader and stalwart ally of the LGBTQI+ community, Ivana Bacik for her address, recounting the progress Ireland has made and the Labour Party's role in advancing LGBTQ+ rights and highlighting the work still to be done.

Congratulations to the incoming Rainbow Rose Board, including our Labour LGBTQ+ executive board member Karl Hayden.

We hope to see and host Rainbow Rose again in Dublin for the ILGA-Europe conference in 2026 and again in the West of Ireland for EuroPride 2028!

Míle buíochas arís agus slán abhaile go léir!

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This evening, Labour LGBTQ+ will host this year's Rainbow Rose General Assembly with a discussion on the 10 year anniversaries of advances in LGBTQI+ marriage, family, and identity in Ireland.

The Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Act 2015, the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015, and the Gender Recognition Act 2015 were all seismic steps forward in the march towards equality for LGBTQI+ individuals in Ireland, but we know that we still have far to go to achieve true equality for our LGBTQI+ community.

Politics has changed rapidly in the last 10 years, both in Ireland and across Europe. We want to use this evening as an opportunity to discuss what fights remain in Ireland and across Europe and to use this evening as a chance to learn from our colleagues and comrades across Europe and beyond.

Our panel discussion will begin at 6:30 pm at the Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square W, Rotunda, Dublin 1, D01 T6V6 with our brilliant panelists:

- Brian Sheehan, CEO of Women for Election, former co-director of the YesEquality for the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum, and former co-chair of ILGA-Europe
- Dr. Claire O'Connell, speaking on behalf of Equality for Children and Board Member of LGBT Ireland
- Jes Black, Policy Officer with Trans Healthcare Action

We hope you can join us this evening!

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