FROM THE EDITOR
Why it's important for Ireland’s LGBT+ community to remember Declan Flynn at a Dublin Pride rally this month
In an Ireland where we have a gay Taoiseach, marriage equality, adoption rights, gender recognition and laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT+ people, it might be hard to imagine what it was like to live here exactly 35 years ago. In March 1983, a judge handed a suspended sentence to five young people who brutally, and with premeditation, murdered a gay man. With his judgement, Justice Sean Gannon, changed Ireland forever, unwittingly sparking the country’s gay movement.