PRIDE WEEK has begun in Galway for the city’s annual LGBT+celebrations.
The week-long festivities began yesterday with the iconic raising of the Rainbow flag in the city centre, followed by a launch party in the iconic Róisín Dubh pub.
Day 1 of Galway Pride 🏳️🌈 flag raising with 2019 Grand Marshal Nuala Ward and A Letter of Understanding was also signed between us and @GalwayCityCo as it was announced that the centre received a total of €30,000 in funding from Galway City Council and @DeptRCD. pic.twitter.com/W3qcfEo36r
— Teach Solais/AMACH! (@TeachSolaisLGBT) August 13, 2019
Today’s (14 August) events will include a celebration of the Irish language, with a pop-up Gaeltacht taking pride of place in the city’s LGBT+ resource centre, Teach Solais (Lighthouse in English).
Wide-ranging events, panels and entertainment will be held across Galway city this week, with everything from Comedy Nights, Céilís, Tea Parties, Family Fun Days, Dog Shows and a River Cruise on the cards for the historic event.
It’s pride week here and Galway and @GalwayPride have so many amazing events on! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/QvDHxsuKIi
— Teach Solais/AMACH! (@TeachSolaisLGBT) August 12, 2019
The Pride Parade will begin on Saturday from 1.30pm at City Hall and is set to be one of the country’s biggest, brightest and best, with Galway known for its artistic talent and myriad of fantastic parades throughout the year.
The week’s events will coincide with the launch of Galway’s newest literary offering, LadyBUG: a zine featuring writing from queer women, set up by Galway-based writers Hayley Little and Lisa Cannon.
We are very excited to be launching our zine LadyBUG just in time for @GalwayPride Thursday 15th Aug 7-9pm 🏳️🌈this zine was created by our queer women’s group for Queer women👩🏾👩🏼⚕️👩🏽🏫👩🏻🦰👩🎤👩🏻🚀
we are very excited to finally launch it 🌟 pic.twitter.com/1rutCkkS6G— Teach Solais/AMACH! (@TeachSolaisLGBT) August 8, 2019
The idea for the zine, whose first issue will be released this week and available to buy for €2 at Teach Solais, was hatched at the resource centre’s monthly queer women’s group, and the proceeds will go back into the maintenance of the Teach Solais charity.
Demonstrators across Ireland are now preparing to head West for the week, and the buzz across the city is palpable for one of the country’s last Pride events of the summer.
The @GalwayPride flags are out in force around @galwayswestend this afternoon and will be there all week! I'm so happy to see that it's not just rainbow flags either, but different elements of the community represented! pic.twitter.com/HBEKDWrDDg
— Alexis (@Blaupanzer) August 12, 2019
Today kicks off Galway Pride and we’re flying the rainbow flag high @EA_Galway. Time to hand out some treats for our colleagues. pic.twitter.com/VvIA102ahT
— Steve (@scottishsteveo) August 12, 2019
Happy Galway Pride from Galways hottest lesbians pic.twitter.com/OJPzAQBlvE
— muir (@leispiachh) August 12, 2019
Bród áthas le gach duine i nGaillimh.
