There is something rather cringeworthy about the government’s determination to drive homophobia out of sport. It’s welcome, but an easy target for a government that wants easy-fixes rather than tackling the underlying causes. Things aren’t going nearly as fast as it seems, and ministers are fuming that...

Following our meeting with the Minister for Rural and Agricultural Development last year which highlighted the isolation and lack of access to services faced by LGBT people in rural areas, The Rainbow Project is pleased to assist a new informal social and support group in the Fermanagh area.  The...

    Northern Ireland Prison Service    Custody Officer    Salary: £18,000 – £23,000 per annum (subject to completion of training)   The core purpose of the Northern Ireland Prison Service is to improve public safety by reducing the risk of reoffending through the management and...

Monday 27th February 2012 18.00 to 20.00. LGBT Centre, 9-13 Waring Street, Belfast, BT1 2DX Another meeting and social for people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds in Northern Ireland who also identify as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. This month we have some more good news to share...

A charity single raising money to tackle homophobic and transphobic bullying has become a sensation over the weekend. The L Project’s début It Does Get Better aims to raise as much money as possible to help combat anti-gay and trans bullying using the most talented lesbian UK performers. The song has hit...

The Rainbow Project, in partnership with the Royal Victoria Hospital’s GUM Clinic, has organised free confidential, drop in sexual health testing and support clinics in the Pipeworks and Outside Saunas and the LGB&T Centre. No appointment is necessary....

The Rainbow Project, in partnership with Cara-friend, is asking for your help with an important piece of research.  Studies in other countries suggest that levels of drug and alcohol use tend to be higher among LGBT communities, but there is little information on the local situation. We have therefore...

The Rainbow Project and Advocacy Scheme present a lecture to mark LGBT History Month: The LGBT Person’s Experience Of Violence – A Gendered Analysis – Nel Whiting (Scottish Women’s Aid). The lectures are on Monday 20th February 2012 at 7.30 pm and Tuesday 21st February 10.30 am. Both...

Following the revelation that Northern Ireland has taken blood from England, Scotland and Wales, every month since the life time ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood was lifted there, The Rainbow Project have said that the Ministers position on this issue is no longer tenable.  Back in September 2011...

This David Weissman documentary tells the story of how San Francisco’s gay community was hit by an unimaginable disaster over 30 years ago. Going back to 1981 it tells, through the vantage points of sufferers, activists, researchers, friends and lovers, how AIDS changed their beloved city into the...

Last month, a state funded Jewish school in North London, JFS, was accused by the Jewish Chronicle of showing students the logo and central message of JONAH, a so called ‘gay cure’ group and implicitly portrayed it as something they should explore if they thought they might be gay. The chief rabbi of...

Gay marriage advocates in the Scottish capital are asking equality-lovers to march in support of the cause on 14 February. Organisers have called for supporters to bring a positive attitude to the event to show the government their passion for equality. The Love Equally March is being promoted by...

Justin Fashanu was an English footballer who played for various clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was the first black player to command a £1m transfer fee and became the first professional footballer to come out as gay. Shunned by both footballers and his family he committed suicide on 2nd May 1998 after...

On Friday 20th and Saturday 21st January a conference is being held, in Orangefield Presbyterian Church, promoting Reparative Therapy. We will be protesting outside the event on both dates from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. The Truth About Reparative Therapy There is a substantive and mounting body of evidence that...

GLAD, the social/support group for the LGB&T community in North Down and Ards have launched their new face book page and relaunched their website. Follow them on http://www.facebook.com/gladniorg or visit www.gladni.org

While Northern Ireland continues to drag its feet on lifting the lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, recent developments in Great Britain are no great victory. Since early November, queer men in England, Scotland and Wales are permitted to give blood so long as they have refrained from...

Gay rights campaigner, Geoff Dudgeon, was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Years Honours List, for services to the LGB&T community in Northern Ireland. Geoff has worked tirelessly for the LGB&T community on a range of issues including the equalisation of the Age of Consent in Northern Ireland....