The Campest and Biggest School Disco of 2008
Club Tease presents:
"The Back to School Disco 2008"
The Tivoli Theatre, Francis Street Dublin 8
Saturday, 6th September.
Admission €15 Concession €12
Get your school uniform/costumes on!
Let your imagination roam. Be Individual, Be Unique, Be Wild! You know you want to come and play at the campest and biggest back to school disco this year! It’s school time club Tease style and all in aid Dublin Pride 2009 and a fundraiser for Johnny. Club Tease is pulling out all the stops to make this the biggest and best back to school disco party ever. End the summer off in style at what promises to be the wildest night this year! Taking place in the Tivoli on Francis Street, Dublin 8.
Club Tease will be transforming the Tivoli Theatre into the maddest school playground around. This will be the campest back to school disco ever.
Featuring the battle of the Dj’s with Dublin V Belfast. In the Pink corner will be DJ Sanquer (Little Tease@Sin), and in the Sliver corner DJ Kristin Nairn aka Revvlon (Kremlin Belfast, Event Horizon, Heaven London & Club Tease). The battle of the DJ’s live, on 4 decks, on one stage with the best of chart dance/house/techno.
Also performing will be sexy on-stage dancers, fire-eaters, plus performance art by the Brazilian Bombshell Twiggi. Making a guest appearance on the night will be Irelands hottest male stripper from The Chain Gang International plus for the ladies one of the hottest strippers from the Centerfolds strip show. Entertainment for one and all! All this for the metro-sexual clubber out there
Your hostess and Head Master on the night will be Felicity B Wilde& Eddie McGuinness making sure the party will rock, giving out spot prizes throughout the event.
With school boys and girls dishing out candy floss, popcorn and lolly pops, this is going to be a fun filled night not to be forgotten.
In aid of Dublin Pride and Johnny. Tickets available from Tivoli box office or on the Door.
The official Dublin Pride 2009 fundraiser and is also supported by Little Tease@SIN, Kremlin Belfast
To Be Queer is to Be Special!
This year, we were honoured to have Tonie Walsh as our Grand Marshall. With over 5,000 present, Walsh declared that "To be queer is to be special" and encouraged all present to make a new declaration of love with each other and a new contract with the people of Dublin. Below is a copy of Tonie's rousing speech which reminded us that "we have a unique history and identity...and we should be generous in sharing it with the rest of Dublin city".
For those who attended the Parade, Post-Parade Rally or any of the events held over the 10 days, we give you a heartfelt thank you for making the Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival 2008 one to remember!!
TONIE WALSH, GRAND MARSHAL OF DUBLIN LGBTQ PRIDE PARADE 2008
Wood Quay, Midsummer's Day, 21st June 2008
Love and friendship have brought us here together.
It is the bond that keeps us together: Being real and brave enough and honest enough to choose whom we love and how we love.
Surely this is the most natural thing in the world; the social, emotional and sexual imperative that drives every single human being.
And if love and friendship is the bond that binds us, it is also without doubt the foundation of our communities, the bedrock of our amazing Rainbow Society we see all around us today, indeed every day as we go about our lives.
Our commitment to love and friendship has taken us through extraordinary, often difficult and sometimes bloody times. It sustains us when we feel like giving up or when we just can’t cope with the hurt, the silly ignorance and viciousness that still lingers out there – thankfully not as much any more and, more importantly, no longer tolerated on a legal level.
And on that point it seems appropriate to give thanks to two successful campaigning civil rights organisations – GLEN (Gay & Lesbian Equality Network, celebrating its 20th anniversary this Summer) and the National Lesbian & Gay Federation – that have spearheaded and directed the inevitable and rightful movement for equality legislation, etc.
Haven’t we come the distance!
But spare a moment for our brothers and sisters who would love to be here today with us, and who just can’t get it together; who are witnessing this incredible day – week – in all its glory, this Irish Gay Pride Day, from the comfort zone of their armchair, with only Bryan Dobson’s three minute commentary on Six One News or possibly a fleeting mention on TV3 and TG4 for company.
Spare a thought for those people. We were once those people. So let’s not get too smug as we wallow in our queer fabulousness.
Every single one of us has been, at some time or another, the underdog, the unrepresented, the shamefully marginalized and the invisible.
Our personal and collective journey through outrageous oppression and repression, through hard moments that overwhelmed some along the way, has brought us to this point. We have all travelled what at times may have seemed like a very long journey to get here, carried on the backs of hundreds and thousands gone before us, our brave and noble brothers and sisters who refused to accept second class citizenship - who battled relentlessly to overcome ignorance, fear and violence. Our brothers and sisters who dared to be different, who dared to come out of their closet and dream of a new world for all.
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Dublin Pride 25, Always the Bridesmaid Never the Bride
This is the rousing theme of the Dublin Pride Festival '08, which begins on Friday June 13th and comes to its climax on Saturday June 21st. With it's infamous explosion of colour transforming the streets of Dublin, this year's festival will be celebrating the city's 25th Pride Parade while highlighting the desire for further recognition regarding LGBTQ partnership rights.
The anniversary not only commemorates the Stonewall Riots of New York 1969, but marks the important changes which have taken place in gay life over the past 25 years and the positive attitudes of Ireland and Dublin toward the gay community. Dublin Pride Ltd have planned a ten day festival of family fun that the entire city can be proud of.
'I am proud to be Lord Mayor of a city, which this year celebrates our 25th Dublin Pride Parade. Every year our Pride festival infuses Dublin with colour and atmosphere unique to our gay community and I am thoroughly looking forward to June as I'm sure Pride 08 will be one to remember'. - Lord Mayor of Dublin Paddy Bourke.
Dublin Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Pride Ltd was established in December of 2006 for the purposes of organising the Dublin Pride festival. Dublin Pride is a company limited by guarantee run as a not for profit organisation. This year Dublin Pride Ltd aim to increase awareness of the lack of partnership rights in the LGBTQ community, while celebrating the city's 25th Pride parade.
This year's festival starts on the 13th June, and culminates in the Dublin Pride Parade on the 21st of June, marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. Dublin Pride Ltd fully support MarriageEquality in their drive for government legislative action for partnership rights.
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