The National LGBT Federation (NXF) has been working voluntarily to improve LGBT+ lives for almost 40 years. Founded in 1979 in a very different Ireland, the National Gay Federation (NGF) opened The Hirschfield Centre in Temple Bar as a place where it was okay to be gay, to connect with others in the community and to find out what was happening politically and socially.
In a country where being LGBT was illegal, dangerous and socially abhorrent, it was a brave move to even be on the NGF board and to work publicly for gay rights. Ireland owes so much to the people who were dedicated enough to be activists at that time and who worked to reshape the country into the more modern, liberal place that it is today.