The National LGBT Federation (NXF) partnered with Dublin Pride again this year to co-host the annual NXF Dublin Pride Political Debate, which since its inception in 2014, has firmly established itself as one of the highlights of our Pride festivities.
This year’s panellists included the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman TD, who, in addition to his Ministerial responsibilities, is one of only three openly LGBTQ+ members of Dáil Éireann, Labour Senator and long-time LGBTQ+ ally Ivana Bacik, Fine Gael MEP and Co-Chair of the European Parliamentary LGBTQ+ group Maria Walsh, and Andrew Muir MLA, an openly gay man who represents the cross-community Alliance Party and who is very much to the fore in advancing equality in Northern Ireland.