On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organisation, at the 43^rd World Health Assembly held in Geneva removed homosexuality from its list of mental illness (Google ICD-10 for technicals).  The removal of this taboo greatly helped gay, lesbian and transgender activism all around the globe, a… Read full post »

I’ve been dating OS for 15 days now. I like him and her (S/he takes up a good bit of time). Not sure about love yet, but hey it’s a little soon for that, even for a serial monogamist. But I appreciate, that is for sure. I adore seeing all… Read full post »

We wove a whizzing circle of green and blue, our heads thrown back and mouths gaping upwards – a moment of sheer deafening silence while we occupied the eye of this storm we were creating. Suddenly our hands lost their grip on one another and for a helpless dwindling moment, we… Read full post »

The electric blue dragonfly lands on the gardenia leaf. It skits across the leaves and departs into the summer night. You say it’s a creature rising from the faerie kingdom of Loch Greinne, here at the lake near Feakle in County Clare. Your face lights up in the darkness as you… Read full post »

Happy Osama day! 

When the Pope visited Ireland in september 1979, a huge mobilisation of the population kicked in, the scale of which not even seen when JF Kennedy arrived on these shores in 1963. Irish people felt they ‘owned’ this papal event. “Young people of Ireland, I lov… Read full post »

I’m quietly tripping up these steps

With the weight of your bones in my hands.

You.

What are you now?

The all-you-wereness of you,

The living artefact,

Just lighter, but still you.

Every lasting moment of you,

The… Read full post »

The idea of a human rights framework is that its universal, but that’s not how it plays out in reality.

I’d thought I’d make a blog spot (hence the name 'human rights(ish)') that features l things LGBT human rights because it’s such a big issue in society today – both… Read full post »

Looking down at us from the granite gatepost, she said she’d throw herself down if we didn’t give it to her. Although her voice was firm, her eyes were wild with fear. Her mop of hair shook as she spoke, her face reddened and her knuckles showed white. She was my… Read full post »

When I told her that I was looking after him because two things were clear: it was AIDS that would kill him within some months and, secondly, he simply had no-one else, her face sort of fell in on itself. Her mouth tightened and she looked away (a response I had… Read full post »

First time blogger here! Hi!

I'm hoping that in this blog, I might get to explore, discuss and exchange loads of ideas around this rather large topic area  - LGBT human rights on local and international levels. Being Irish and based in Ireland I've found that most of what I have… Read full post »