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The Rainbow Project has launched their largest and most ambitious survey to date aimed at capturing the lived realities of LGBTQIA+ people across Northern Ireland. The survey hopes to gather experiences around public safety, community services, and public services such as health and education. The Belfast component of the survey is being carried out by […]

Northern Ireland’s leading LGBTQIA+ charities are launching Out Connections Belfast – a Belfast-focused LGBTQIA+ community engagement project supported by Belfast City Council and PEACEPLUS. Cara-Friend, the Rainbow Project, and HEReNI unite to present a comprehensive programme that: builds greater collaboration across the LGBTQIA+ support infrastructure; promotes and strengthens the delivery of local LGBTQIA+ services; and

The Rainbow Project had the pleasure of hosting LGBTQIA+ organisations from across Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland over three days at the beginning of December in our new Foyle office for two conferences focused on building collaboration and strengthening our LGBTQIA+ movements across these islands. We held the first ever meeting of the

The Rainbow Project is now delivering a new support service for families of trans people in Northern Ireland. This service is taking over from Mermaids UK’s in-person service which ceased in Northern Ireland earlier this month. Support for trans young people and their families is vital. Parents and families need to be provided with the space

Today a group of youth organisations, LGBTQIA+ charities and education unions representing thousands of teaching and non-teaching staff across Northern Ireland have condemned the Education Minister’s removal of guidance for supporting trans youth in education, urging him to reinstate the guidance in a joint statement co-ordinated by The Rainbow Project. Alexa Moore, Policy Campaigns and

The Supreme Court Judgment on FWS vs Scottish Minister’s, which redefined the terms ‘man’, ‘woman’, and ‘sex’ as they’re interpreted in the 2010 Equality Act, has already had a significant impact on trans communities across the UK. While the implications of this judgment in Northern Ireland is more complex due to our different equality legislation

The Communities Minister, Gordon Lyons, has stated that a ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ event which took place recently in East Belfast “should not have taken place,” claiming that it was “not appropriate for children” and that he would apply pressure on Libraries NI to ensure events like this couldn’t happen in the future. This event,