QUEER VIEW MIRROR
with Stephen Meyler
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GLEN Takes The High Road
It was sad that GLEN felt compelled to wind down after the recent reporting of untidy financial practices. By any measure, they were one of the most successful lobbying organisations in the state’s history, up there with the Catholic Church or vintners’ associations. You get the feeling, despite well-meant parting statements about the good gay fight still going on, that the organisation had lost its drive since the success of the marriage equality campaign.
I hope that GLEN’s records, bound to be pretty extensive for an organisation that was founded in 1988, are preserved and find their way into a protected archive. They are as much a part of Irish gay history as any change in the law or election of a gay politician.