Podcasts about yes equality

On this episode Simon speaks to TV presenter,fashion designer and EDI speaker Brendan Courtney.Simon and Brendan speak about his career and how it all began,the challenges he faced,the obstacles he overcame, and where he is in his life nowadays and the great work he does for other organisations and people.One of Ireland's best known and well-loved TV Presenters, Broadcaster, Activist and Designer. Brendan Courtney has established himself as an intelligent, insightful generous host, on “Keys to my Life”, his original TV format currently broadcasting Sunday nights RTE1. At the same time, he is one of Ireland's most trusted, empathetic and safe pair of hands on his recent 'Live Studio' series, RTE1's ‘Ireland on Call' . Starting his career as a TV researcher he has been a TV Presenter for over 20 years. He has hosted countless TV series in Ireland and the UK including his own self titled terrestrial TV talk show. Selling his first TV format ‘Wanderlust” to 19 countries, he went on to start, run and successfully exit his London based TV production company 'Giant film & TV'. Brendan also runs his own successful women's wear fashion label ‘Lennon Courtney' with his business partner Sonya Lennon, with whom he has also co-written two No.1 books on confidence and style.Using his profile to advocate for equality in the areas of health, housing, age and gender he recently achieved first-class honours in Europe's first Masters of Business (MBA) Degree in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. Brendan was one of the key public faces of the ‘Yes Equality' Marriage Referendum and as Ireland's first openly Gay TV presenter, he has always crusaded for equality across gender, LGBTQ, age and housing. He is a regular corporate speaker on Equality, Inclusion & Diversity to audiences across the Globe.​His unique approach, engaging voice and personal story inspires awareness and makes an impact for positive change. Web:https://www.brendancourtney.com/Twitter:https://twitter.com/BrendanCourtneyLinkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-courtney-034a1569/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/BrendanCourtneyOfficial/

Elections Series #4 of 4. On May 24, 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to codify marriage equality through a popular vote. Significantly, the popular vote enacted a constitutional amendment, adding protection for two adult’s right to marry regardless of sex or gender. In a country that only just decriminalized same-sex sex in 1993, this turn of events might be surprising. 61% of eligible Irish voters voted. 62% of those voters said Yes, to approve the referendum amending the constitution. Members of the main mobilizing campaign--the “Yes Equality” campaign that advocated for the amendment--credit their success to a strong social media movement, the mobilization of real people’s stories, and a non-confrontational high-road approach in comparison with the No campaigners. The leaders of Yes Equality, Grainne Healy, Brian Sheehan, and Noel Whelan, also insist that Ireland was just ready to accept gay and lesbian Irish people as equals, evidenced by the smashing success of a 62% victory. The 2015 referendum was absolutely a major milestone in Irish gay and lesbian history. Whether or not it signaled Ireland’s definitive acceptance of queer Irish people as “equal” is less clear.  Bibliography Ed. Charlie Bird and Colm Toibin, A Day in May : Real Lives, True Stories, (Dublin: Merrion Press, 2016). Averill Earls, “Solicitor Brown and His Boy: Love, Sex, and Scandal in Twentieth-Century Ireland,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, vol. 46, no. 1, (March 2020). [[Yes, that’s me!]] Averill Earls, “Unnatural Offences of English Import: The Political Association of Englishness and Homosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalist Media,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 28, no. 3, (September 2019), 396-424. Diarmaid Ferriter, Occasions of Sin Brenda Gray, “Mobility, Connectivity and Non-Resident Citizenship: Migrant Social Media Campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality Referendum,” Sociology, Vol. 53(4) (2019) 634–651. Grainne Healy, Brian Sheehan, and Noel Whelan, Ireland Says Yes : The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2015).  Brian Lacey, Terrible Queer Creatures  Eithne Luibhéid, “Same-sex marriage and the pinkwashing of state migration controls,” International Feminist Journal Of Politics, Vol. 20, No. 3, (2018) 405–424 Patrick McDonagh, “‘Homosexuals Are Revolting’: Gay & Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1970s-1990s,” Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 7 (2017), pp. 65-91. Una Mullally, In the Name of Love (2014) Elizabeth O’Connor, “Discourse, performativity and the Irish marriage equality referendum debate,” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, vol. 8 no. 1, 81-93.  Sonja Tiernan, The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins. (Manchester University Press, 2020) Brian Tobin, “Marriage Equality in Ireland: The Politico-Legal Context,” 30 Int'l J.L. Pol. & Fam. 115 (2016), 115-130. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tá ceiliúradh cúig bliana ann ó bhí reifreann Yes Equality ann. Labhraíonn Seán Ó Dubhchon le Traolach Ó Buachalla ó phobal na Gaeilge do Yes Equality le súil siar a chaitheamh ar an reifreann agus an cúig bliana atá thart.

A Q&A with director/producer Linda Cullen, Minister Katherine Zappone and Gráinne Healy, co-founder and chair of Marriage Equality and co-director of Yes Equality. Recorded at the Irish Film Institute on July 1st 2018.

Brian has passionately supported the LGBTI community for many years and had a large role in the Yes Equality campaign during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey in 2017. We discuss his pursuits, what led him to them, and talk about songs that represent significant points in his life.

It’s the end of the year as we know it... Recorded at MVP in Dublin earlier this month, we were joined for our annual review of the year by Kathy Sheridan from The Irish Times, Grainne Healy from the Yes Equality campaign and radio producer Zoe Comyns. They ran the rule over a year of news stories from the weather and climate change to Syriza and Greece, from ISIS and Syria to the marriage equality campaign, from Jeremy Corbyn to Donald Trump, from the Land League to Denis O’Brien. They’re all here: the winners and losers, the heroes and villains, the great and the good of the last 12 months brought to order.

Dr. Grainne Healy, aktivistka in so-direktorica irske kampanje Yes Equality, o tem, kako so v državi, ki velja za razmeroma konzervativno, na referendumu podprli...

In this week's Inside Politics podcast Hugh Linehan talks to the political team, Sarah Bardon, Harry McGee and Stephen Collins about the latest news from the Dail; the inquiry into IBRC, and the proposed housing package. Later in the podcast Hugh interviews Brian Sheehan one of the creators of the Yes Equality campaign about the strategy behind this year's marriage referendum. Inside Politics is weekly politics podcast. It is presented by Hugh Linehan and produced by Sinead O'Shea.

Activist Grainne Healy was one of the leaders of the Yes Equality campaign, and along with Brian Sheehan and Noel Whelan she has written a book about what went on behind the scenes. She explains the book's purpose, and how she came to be so intimately involved with the historic marriage equality movement. Ireland Says Yes: The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality was Won is available now.

To mark the Dublin Pride Parade, Roísín meets prominent gay rights campaigners Senator Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan to talk about life after the Yes Equality campaign, their role in the gay rights movement, and Katherine's decision to run for a Dáil seat. They also have some advice for older gay people.