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Last week’s reshuffle has no doubt caused a headache for those campaigning on the matter of recognising same sex relationships. From initial research and remembering the announcement of a new Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may well have given lesbians and gay men and their organisations a significant migraine.
I go back to June 1993 for my initial diagnosis - the Dáil debates on the decriminialisation of homosexuality (yes 15 years ago next month). Dermot Ahern TD. was a backbencher at the time and spoke at the second stage of the Sexual Offences ... Flag post
Who said gay love doesn't last a lifetime? It appears that with an increasing number of lifelong same-sex commitments the tragic days depicted in The Well of Loneliness and A Boy's Own Story are fading into the melodramatic shadows of the past.
Blossoming in its place are new dramas and comedies of the present and future – long-term couples and families with children underfoot. The report entitled "The Close Relationships of Lesbians and Gay Men," by noted same-sex relationship researcher Letitia Anne Peplau, Ph.D., and graduate student Adam W. Fingerhut at the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed studies ... Flag post
