On October 19, the Gay Men’s Health Service (GMHS) celebrated 25 years of caring for the sexual health of MSM in Ireland. At an occasion hosted at the GMHS Clinic in Baggot Street Hospital, Minister for State, Catherine Byrne praised the service, saying that compassionate care of MSM is essential.
Founder of the service, Mick Quinlan took the opportunity to call on the government to make good on its promise to provide a new community clinic.
“We shout the Pride slogan: ‘We’re here we’re queer and we’re not going shopping’,” he said. “Well we’re here, we’re queer and we’re tax-payers and citizens, and if the government can find five million euro in the budget for a communications unit, it should be easy to find a couple of million for a proper adequate, GMHS community clinic and to really move sexual health up the rung of the ladder.”