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Lavender & Green members are among the many arrested for protesting the exclusion of Irish lgbt people from the annual St. The event draws considerable media attention. Festivities included traditional Irish food, drink, music and set dancing. Held in a Protestant church in Flushing, NY, over seventy attend including Irish immigrant Chaplain, Father Glen Campbell. Lavender and Green, along with the Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, hosts the first Oíche Aerach (Gay Night) celebration. The central piece of the exhibit displayed the map of Ireland with a poem by Cathal Ó Searchaigh. The exhibit was displayed on the storefront window of McNulty's Tea & Coffee Co. Brendan Fay and Peter Hendricks research and design an exhibit on Irish lgbt history in Ireland and the U.S.
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"Windows In gay Life" exhibit for Stonewall 25. Members discussed the organization's role as parallel/complimentary to ILGO and Lavender & Green-sponsored cultural activities. This Tuesday evening the first meeting of Lavender & Green Alliance (Muintir Aerach na hEireann) was held at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center at 208 west 13th Street. Informal conversations among some members of ILGO and others from the Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community leads to the realization and birth of Lavender & Green Alliance. The group carried a 9' foot-long banner reading "Gay Irish Americans". Robert led the first Irish gay contingent into the line of the St. The Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO) formed.Īfter a life dedicated to justice and inclusiveness, Robert Rygor, a member of Lavender and Green and ILGO died. declared they were Irish lesbian and gay New Yorkers! After a number of telephone exchanges with Irish/Irish Americans, Irish lesbian and gay immigrants for the first time began meeting at various locations like the Red Lion and The Eagle throughout the city. With the support of the late Craig Rodwell, founder of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop and co-founder of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade (now run by Heritage of Pride), Brendan Fay places a notice in the bookshop's community bulletin board.