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Karl Hayden
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Long time human, civil and LGBT rights activist 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈, I stand with people of Palestine 🇵🇸 Ukraine 🇺🇦, and LGBT communities around the world 🌎

If I even suspect you are a troll hiding behind an anonymous account I will block you.
Sara Philips holds the room spellbound at the General Assembly of @rainbowrosepes.bsky.social as she talks about the state of play for #Trans people in Ireland and internationally.

Such a brilliant speaker and making it so relatable to the personal experience of Trans people.

#RainbowRose
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Karl Hayden
We are proud to be hosting the General Assembly of @rainbowrosepes.bsky.social here in Dublin for the first time.

Delegates from across Europe representing LGBTQ+ sections of national political parties who are members of the Party of European Socialists.

#rainbowrose #RainbowRoseGA
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reposted by Karl Hayden
Sara Philips, a trans activist in Ireland, leads a workshop on ‘Misconceptions, misinformation, agendas and ideologies’

Not a sound in the room as she outlines the issues faced by the trans community across Europe and what PES member parties can do in support

#RainbowRose #RainbowRoseGA
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Israel: Government seeks to ban foreign media outlets permanently if deemed “a security threat”
www.ifj.org/media-centre...

There is no end to which the Israeli Government under Benjamin Netanyahu will go to prevent reporting of their abuses.

The so called democracy of the Middle East.
Israel: Government seeks to ban foreign media outlets permanently if deemed “a security threat” / IFJ
Members of the Israeli parliament voted on 10 November in favour of passing a bill that would allow the government to permanently shut down foreign media outlets alleged to “undermine national securit...
www.ifj.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔

Five young friends dead, three injured in Dundalk crash www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Five young friends dead, three injured in Dundalk crash
Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth.
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Donegal Says Yes

To mark the 10th anniversary of the signing into law of the Marriage Equality Act in 2015, the Donegal LGBTQ+ Heritage Project released this video. youtu.be/CCNi1O1zqE4

Delighted I could help the amazing Jen McCarron and the team with the video. Still lots of archive to be shared.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@cnn.com I hate being that person, BUT… Anderson Cooper’s fixation on bereavement is so unhealthy. His repetitive emotional rollercoaster when interviewing people who experienced bereavement comes across as an act of self-flagellation.

Respectfully he needs to find a therapist to address it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com What a pathetic attempt by Laurence O’Donnell on The Last Word to cover for the 8 senators who voted with Republicans last night, as well as the utterly useless Chuck Schumer. The sooner the current leadership of the Democratic Party are gone the better. They failed their party.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Finally some good political news coming out of America. Perhaps now we will see a wider rejection of Trump and the Republicans by a majority of voters… if they are allowed to exercise their vote freely without interference by Trump.

#Mamdani #Spanberger #Sherrill #Jones #Hashmi #Prop50 and more.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It takes some neck to stand in front of the media complaining about political consensus being out of kilter with the grassroots while you have a €12,000+ Hermès bag hanging off your arm.

I assume Gavin is representing what Steen said accurately.

For me her 'campaign' has been one of entitlement.
September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This Friday, 26th September at 18:30. Outhouse (theatre), 105 Capel St, D1.

#LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Stand together against racism & enjoy a vibrant celebration of shared community in Ireland!

📆Sat, Sept 27th
⏰ 1pm
📍Garden of Remembrance

Fight for housing🎉
Fight for public services📢
Don't scapegoat minorities 🙌🏾
Celebrate Diversity-Reject Division
September 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Join the growing protest to save free speech and unsubscribe from all #ABC and #Disney subscriptions, including their streaming services and podcasts. Contact ABC and Disney and tell them you are unsubscribing from their services.

#FightBack #JimmyKimmel #FightDictatorships #TrumpEpstein
September 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
FSU supporting @IBCB_ie initiative on problem gambling which was launched by Minister @RobertTroyTD this morning.

More Information:
www.irishbankingcultureboard.ie/problemgambl...
September 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Karl Hayden
For Dublin-based folks: I’m giving an afternoon talk next month (15 Oct) at Trinity about my forthcoming book (available for preorder for twenty quid).

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation
A lecture by Dr Tom Hulme (Queens University Belfast) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.
www.tcd.ie
September 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Anas Abusrour Speaking Tour:
A firsthand account of ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank

Thu, 18 September 2025, 19:15 The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2
www.ipsc.ie/event/dublin...
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is worth hearing and spreading far and wide.

Crime in the U.K. is reducing over the last 25 years.

While immigration has increased crime has reduced. So if anything we should be saying more immigration = less crime 😉
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reposted by Karl Hayden
Maeve Richardson, Digital Organiser at FSU, who participated with @drbambrick.bsky.social, Social Policy at ICTU, and Bryan O’Mahony, President of USI/Amle, in the @forsatradeunion.bsky.social Youth Conference in @tcddublin.bsky.social on Friday

Support the respectatwork.ie petition
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
📢 PROTEST AGAINST VIKTOR ORBÁN

Orbán will be attending the IRL v HUN game tomorrow. Join us 7pm, Aviva on Shelbourne Rd, to say NO to...
- sportswashing authoritarianism
- intimidation and silencing opposition
- banning Budapest Pride
- homophobia, transphobia and bigotry
- dismantling democracy
September 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Can you imagine him representing us on the international stage!

He hasn’t a clue what the role or the powers of the President are

He thinks he gets to dictate to Government what they do

He thinks quoting bits from the Proclamation of the Republic makes him sound good. Too many kicks to the head 🤦‍♂️
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@jennycohn.bsky.social based in the recommendation of public_enlightenment on TikTok I have started following you here.
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’m not American, I don’t live there… but anyone who is or does please sign.

What ICE officers and administrators are doing will be judged and those found to have acted illegally will face consequences for their actions. Claiming to have just followed orders will be no defence
August 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Love In The Lav
Virtual book launch, next Thursday Sep 4 at 5pm. Free public event, RVSP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Love in the Lav was featured in the Dublin InQuirer in June.
www.dublininquirer.com/new-book-doc...

Averill Earls, PhD
Associate Professor of History, St. Olaf College
Love in the Lav with Averill Earls | NACBS
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972.
www.nacbs.org
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM