How often do you worry about your walk home? Do you ever have to consider how loud you talk in public, what route you take or if it’s safe to hold your partners hand? Before anyone is violent or abusive, it’s the anxiety that follows you around, telling you to be careful where you go, […]
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After a fantastic Belfast Pride event we received the news of the devastating attack on attendees of the Berlin Pride event which left one woman dead and many injured. Our thoughts, love and solidarity are with the families and friends of the victims, the LGBTQIA+ community in Berlin and across Germany. We abhor your loss
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The Rainbow Project has launched a waiting list for its Queer As Gaeilge Irish language programme after its first six-week beginner course sold out in less than two hours. The free course, delivered from The Rainbow Project’s Foyle Hub at Waterloo House in Derry/Londonderry, was created to provide LGBTQIA+ people and allies with an opportunity
More than 450 people came together in Ormeau Park, Belfast on Sunday 19th July for The Rainbow Project’s first ever Run With Pride event, helping to kick off Belfast Pride Week with a celebration of community, inclusion and wellbeing. Kindly sponsored by The Maverick Belfast and supported by Lidl Northern Ireland and Belfast Front Runners,
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The Ban Conversion Practices Coalition has welcomed the publication and laying of a draft ban on conversion practices in the Assembly later today. There is currently no legal ban on conversion practices, covering acts including talking therapies which intend to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The draft legislation published last week
The past few years have been difficult for LGBTQIA+ communities. We’ve seen a rapidly worsening environment for all LGBTQIA+ people, but particularly trans people, across the UK and to an extent in the Republic of Ireland as well. It’s rare, however, that we can see it so starkly presented, with facts, data, and comparison across
ILGA Europe’s 2026 Rainbow Map – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Read More »
Since 1994, the Rainbow Project has been working for a better Northern Ireland for LGBTQIA+ people and their families. We change lives through our service provision which mitigates the impact of discrimination, and we change society through our training, campaigning and policy work, which seeks to eliminate the root causes of that discrimination and deliver
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Kindly sponsored by The Maverick and supported by Lidl & Belfast Front Runners. The Rainbow Project is delighted to announce their first ever ‘Run With Pride’ event. Why not kick off Pride Week in Belfast with an inclusive 5K run in Ormeau Park. Enjoy a traffic-free route set within the park’s tree-lined paths – perfect
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We’re really proud to share The Rainbow Project’s Impact Report 2024-25. It reflects a year where, despite growing challenges and increasingly hostile rhetoric, we continued to show up for LGBTQIA+ people across Northern Ireland as a trusted, visible and vital support. Between 2024-25, we’ve reached more people than ever before. From delivering over 1,300 counselling
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Be loud, be proud, be unapologetically trans this TDOV. While we recognize and celebrate this day, often it can feel like trans communities right now are visible in ways that make it difficult for us to live our lives freely and fully. Trans Day of Visibility takes place every year on 31 March. We spoke
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