Sunday 22nd August- Dublin City Hall

Civil Partnership excludes LGBT people from a fundamental civil and human right. Civil Partnership makes us second class citizens. Civil Partnership does not provide equality for LGBT people and their families. One of the most outrageous aspects of the partnership scheme is the complete lack of any rights for LGBT parents and their children. It offers no way for parents to create protected legal bonds with each other as parents or with their children. Civil Partnership denies parents the right to make educational and medical decisions regarding their children. It denies children of LGBT parents the right to inherit from their parents. Parents will be taxed as a couple but denied their parental rights as a couple. In the tragic event of a biological parent dying a child could be taken away from its other mom or dad.

Noise believes that even if partnership offered all the benefits of marriage, it would still be discrimination as a separate system for gay people only cannot be called equality. Noise calls for an end to such an apartheid system and for the Irish government to open up the choice of civil marriage to all citizens. Follow the example of Spain, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Argentina, Portugal, Nepal, Mexico, Iceland, The Netherlands and Belgium - Civil Marriage Now!

Map Route
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UPDATE
Sunday is nearly here! We really need everyone to make a special effort to march this year come rain or shine! Don’t forget to ask your friends and family to come. We need as many there as possible to show that we won’t be pacified by half measures in the form of Civil Partnership.

We will be gathering beside City Hall at 2pm on Sunday and marching up to the Department of Justice on Stephen’s Green. Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International and Grainne Healy of Marriage Equality will be among the speakers.
Don’t forget Tripod are hosting a post-march party til late! There’ll be a BBQ (with veggie option), Mr Greedy’s Ice Cream Van and fabulous djs:

Sean John (R.I.P)
Peter Fingleton (C.U.N.T)
Will St Ledger (Mother)
Ian Finnerty & Richie JC (SuperSuperDisco)

Drink promos:
330ml Btls Stella/Krombacher ?3.50
Smirnoff Ice/WKD ?3.50
Cocktail of the week ?5

Panti Bar will be opening early at 1pm for pre-march treats!

The Front Lounge are offering buckets of Heineken, Coors Light and Corona @ 5 for 20euro. And free sandwiches for marchers!

Noise launched our ‘Write for Your Rights’ Campaign recently. Volunteers will be moving among the crowd on Sunday asking you to sign a postcard that Noise will post for you directly to the Minister for Justice himself!

Noise will have banners and t shirts with slogans for you to wear if you like but please bring your own banners and t shirts on the day too!

If you’d like to help us steward the march please contact an organiser on the day or email us at info@lgbtnoise.ie

If you’re offering or looking for a car pool check out this website:
http://www.tripmi.ie/March_for_Marriage

If anyone knows of any drumming troupes that might be available on Sunday please get in touch at info@lgbtnoise.ie
And finally special thanks to Cormac and all at Prhomo for their generous support!

See you all on Sunday!

Love and noise,

The Noise Team

Last year a vibrant crowd of over five thousand people marched through the streets of the capital demanding full equality in the form of civil marriage.

Civil Partnership lacks many of the rights of Civil Marriage. The children of LGBT families are ignored by this bill. Civil Partnership forces vulnerable couples to participate in their own discrimination out of a basic necessity to protect themselves in whatever way they can. A separate system for certain citizen sends the message out to the rest of society that LGBT people can be treated differently and discriminated against in other areas.

Noise asks all those who support equal rights to gather their friends and family together to march with Noise on August 22nd. Further details and after-march party to be announced. Add LGBT Noise on Facebook or join our mailing list for updates.

Civil Marriage Now!

LGBT Noise and Marriage Equality are asking people who intend on marching with us at the Dublin Pride march on Saturday, 26th June to register their interest today by emailing info@marriagequality or info@lgbtnoise.ie.

LGBT Noise and Marriage Equality are marching under the theme ‘We Are Family’ to help end the discrimination LGBT families experience and we need you to help make our call for equality the loudest and most effective to-date.

‘We Are Family’ is a campaign which gives visibility to LGBT families living in Ireland and is being rolled out by Marriage Equality nationwide this month.

We ask people to bring their biological or logical family members, boyfriends, girlfriends or friends. Make banners by printing We Are Family posters from http://www.marriagequality.ie/wearefamily/ or have some personalised t-shirts made that carry your own message.

Whatever you do for the day make sure the message is clear, civil marriage will legally recognise and protect LGBT families, civil partnership will not.

LGBT families deserve the same rights and protections as any other family. We deserve equality. So join us on the day and make some noise.

Happy Pride!
The Noise Team

Hosted by the lovely Darren Kennedy, Table Quiz in aid of LGBT Noise will raise much needed funds for the March for Marriage in August. Yes folks, we are going yearly with March for Marriage!

There will be a special prize for the winning table and plenty of other great prizes to be won in a raffle on the night (prizes to be announced soon).

Thursday June 3rd, 8pm in The Front Lounge, €50 per table of 5 (€40 if you pre-book). Book now to ensure you’re in on the night by emailing info@lgbtnoise.ie with your name and number.

UPDATE - Prizes do far…

1st Prize - 1 night in an apartment in Inchydoney hotel for the winning table

Raffle Prizes:

1.  2 nights B&B plus 1 evening meal for 2 people in the D hotel

2.  2 x €150 shopping vouchers

3.  €100 voucher for Queen Beauty Emporium

4.  Lunch for 2 in Pichets restaurant

5.  3 x Ikea prizes

6.  Absolute vodka package

7.  Bottles of wine

8.  1 years free entry to cake for 2 people

9.  Romeoromeo Julietjuliet passes

We would like to say a special thank you to all the people who kindly gave us prizes and Richie Whyte for providing us scoring services.

Hi All,

NOISE Flash Demo

When: Thursday 3rd December. 6pm.

Where: Dáil Éireann, Kildare St.

Why : As you may have hear,d the Civil Partnership Bill has been scheduled to be discussed in the Dáil on Thursday 3rd December. (http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=13528&&CatID=60)

Noise intends to hold a ‘Flash Demo’ on this day (http://lgbtnoise.ie/?p=1285)

While the Civil Partnership bill might represent solace for some members of our community who will avail of the limited rights within the bill , the demo will protest that Ireland’s LGBT community are being forced into a position where we must participate in our own discrimination by accepting, out of necessity, the measures contained within the  bill. Furthermore, the demo will highlight some of the gaping deficiencies in the bill such as the the complete lack of any rights for - indeed, any mention of - gay parents and their children. We need to continuously remind the Government that they have not done enough until they have actually granted us full equality. As equal citizens, we should have equal access to the fundamental rights of citizenship, including the right to civil marriage.

The demo is an opportunity for the lgbt community to come together quickly to make our feelings known directly- by chanting and through our visibility - to our elected representatives. NOISE will be inviting the TDs and Senators of the Dáil to mix with the demo to better understand why Civil Partnership is not good enough for our community or for our children.

Hey all,

Here are a few updates of recent and upcoming NOISE activities:

NOISE at the G-Spot
The Pink Calendar on TV3
The March for Marriage on RTÉ
Flash Demo at the Dáil

G-Spot

The G-Spot is the new talk-show and discussion forum for the LGBT community in Ireland.
Tuesday 24th November, 8pm, The George:

NOISE and GLEN will chat about their campaigns, Civil Marriage and the Civil Partnership Bill. Come along and show your support for EQUALITY! :-)

Apparently there will be a special cameo from a certain celebrity who’s on the longest job-interview of her life…
Facebook users check out the G-Spot page here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/The-G-Spot/201678957463

The Pink Calendar

The Pink Calendar, a showcase of lesbian lives, is now on sale at www.thepinkcalendar.com. All proceeds go to NOISE and BeLonGTo!

Pink Calendar creator Jill Barry was interviewed on TV3 recently to promote the Pink Calendar, Noise, and speak about being a gay Irish sportsperson:
http://bit.ly/7GGwSS

Hands On

Hands On is a magazine show aimed at the Irish deaf community -  RTÉ One on Sundays at 12.50pm.
Check out the RTE Player for Sunday 22nd November, which features footage of the March For Marriage:

http://www.rte.ie/tv/handson/

…and don’t forget the NOISE FLASH DEMO:

Get The Cake, Not The Crumbs!

Although there is still no set date, the Dáíl will soon be debating the Civil Partnership Bill.
Noise will be organising a ‘flash Demo’ at short notice to ‘help’ TD’s and Senators better undertand why Civil Partnership falls far short of equality.
Demand Equality!
Demand the Freedom to Marry!
For updates, stay tuned to www.lgbtNOISE.ie, Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, Twitter - and join us to make some NOISE. :-)

Love and Noise,

The Noise Team

For details on March for Marriage 2010 please click here

Do your straight friends and family think you are equal? Now is their chance to show it!

It’s finally time to announce the next Noise protest: we ask you, your friends, your family and your co-workers to MARCH FOR MARRIAGE in Dublin on Sunday 9th August 2009.

All who attended Noise’s ‘Inequality? RED CARD!’ rally in May - over one thousand of you -  will remember Rory O’Neill aka Miss Panti Bliss calling on the community to show its “righteous anger”. You’ll also remember Noiser Eloise McInerney challenging everyone present to carry that anger to the wider community by bringing someone along to the next rally, be they straight, gay, bi or trans. Noise is reissuing that challenge - if everyone who attended that last rally brought three, or five, or even ten people along to August’s march, a message would be sent to our Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform that could not be ignored: Ireland’s LGBT community - along with their straight friends and family -  demand the equality that is due to every citizen: the right to marry the one we love.

The march will gather at Dublin’s City Hall, Dame Street, and will end with a rally at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on St Stephen’s Green. Speakers at the rally will include Niall Crowley (equality expert and former CEO of the Equality Authority), Patricia Prendeville (former executive director of ILGA Europe) and Brendan Courtney (broadcaster and entertainer).

It’s time to MARCH FOR MARRIAGE - we look forward to seeing you there!

Sunday 9th August 2009 from 1.30pm, Dublin City Hall, Dame Street.

Love and Noise,

The Noise Team

Running Order

Running order can be downloaded here

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