Fundraising and Partnerships Officer The Rainbow Project is seeking to recruit for a new post of Fundraising and Partnerships Officer to join our team who are working to make Northern Ireland a better place for LGBTQIA+ people. Applications close: 17/4/24 Interviews on: 3/5/24 – Job Role: Fundraising Salary: £25,482 Hours per week: 35.00 Based: At our Belfast or …
The Rainbow Project has responded to the news regarding a security alert in Portrush, County Antrim yesterday evening, where a suspicious item wrapped in a Pride flag was left at a home address. The PSNI are treating the incident as a hate crime. Scott Cuthbertson, Director of The Rainbow Project said: “We are deeply concerned …
There is no place for anti-LGBTQIA+ hatred in Northern Ireland. Read More »
We are recruiting LGBTQIA+ people with experiences of Conversion Practices (also known as conversion therapies, reparative therapies, and cure therapies) to take part in interviews about their experience. Call out for individuals to be interviewed about their experiences with conversion practices (also known as conversion therapies or reparative therapies). These practices encompasses all medical, psychological, …
LGBTQI+ Awareness Week will take place this year from 16th – 22nd of May. With a whole range of events to choose from please check out, like, and share the programme with friends and family. The programme can be found here: www.yumpu.com/s/4zbXkQ17n2eM9iqa
This week LGBTQIA sectoral groups came together week to mark Holocaust memorial week and lay wreaths at The Belfast Cenotaph. The group were welcomed to Belfast City Hall by Lord Mayor Kate Nicholl and speakers included Adam Murray, Community Development Manager of CaraFriend, Professor William Spurlin from Brunel University, Aisling Twomey, Policy and Advocacy Manager …
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Eimear Willis is The Rainbow Project’s Health and Wellbeing Officer in the Western Area. Heya, it’s Eimear here. I work with the adult groups in the Derry office. It’s Lesbian Visibility Week, and I wanted to take some time out to talk a bit about being a gay woman living in the North West as …
Three women from across Northern Ireland share their stories of coming to terms with their sexual orientation and coming out. Annie Hi my name is Annie, I’m a 32 year old, finally out and proud lesbian, in the Causeway Coast and Glens area. It’s Lesbian Visibility Week and I would like to share a bit …
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Rebecca Toolan is a lesbian from Belfast who currently works in marketing and occasionally writes about pop culture, politics, and LGBT issues. You can follow her on Twitter at @rebtool “Lesbians really do exist!” exclaimed Derry Girls’ Orla McCool against the backdrop of the North of Ireland in the mid-1990s, around the same time …
With visibility comes community, empowerment and self-confidence for young lesbians Read More »
Our counsellor Nat Creighton talks about notable trans & non-binary icons and why visibility is important!
