Unison NI LGBT+

30/04/2026

Hi all do login to this on Thursday 14th of May 7.0pm

22/04/2026

Le***an Visability Week 2026

Check out UNISON LGBT+ NI’s post.

20/04/2026

31/03/2026

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️
Today we recognise and celebrate transgender and diverse experiences 🫶

31/03/2026

Today, March 31st, is Trans Day of Visibility. While we recognise and celebrate this day, often it can feel like trans communities right now are visible in ways that make it difficult for us to live our lives freely and fully.
So we asked some of our trans staff what visibility means to them and why it's so important to see themselves represented positively in the media, in public life, and across society 🏳️‍⚧️
Be loud, be proud, be unapologetically trans this TDOV 💗

31/03/2026

Unison LGBT+ Northern Ireland is with all our members promoting

TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

Pictured here in Edinburgh with our members Martin Mc Connellogue Danielle Roberts and Trevor Doey .

29/03/2026

Today we remember the great character of Jimmy Mc Shane . Today marks his anniversary.
Jim was one of the most funny people you could meet . He found laughter and fun in the darkest of times always entertaining those around him.
Jim came to Derry and engaged well with the LGBTQIA Community and became part of the first Foyle Pride.
The Rainbow Project was outstanding in his support and care with a special mention to Mal, Alison, Donna Marie and the late David Mc Cartney.
Martin Mc Connellogue Unison NI LGBT+ and Eimear Willis ( The Rainbow Project ) had always wanted to remember Jim and the contribution he made to Foyle and to many of our favourite nights out with his music.

The Rainbow Project got a few local activists together and with local designer Helen Quigley created a beautiful memory to Jim and other members who left us to soon, through illness or tragic accidents.
We launched at Foyle Pride 2025 to a heartwarming response.

Today we remember Jim and all the fun times either personally or having a wee boogie to Tarzan Boy in the kitchen or the clubs .

27/03/2026

Email Joe for the zoom link. This will be a very interesting presentation from our very own Marie Quiery

March History Club! This month, we’re excited to welcome Marie Quiery who will be presenting on the document "Irish Q***r and Equal?” The document was launched at an event at the Feile in August 2000 and Marie will be discussing the relevance to LGBTQIA+ life today. email: joe@hereni.org for zoom link
Here NI Cara-Friend The Rainbow Project

11/03/2026

📢 UNISON Free School Meals Campaign Launch
UNISON are launching their Free School Meals campaign pledge on Thursday 12th March at 10am in Coláiste Feirste.
We’re inviting parents, caregivers and members to share their experiences about the importance of free school meals, or the financial impact on families.
If you’d like to share your story, please message the page. Stories can be shared anonymously.

09/03/2026

Today we remember Mark Ashton, raised in Portrush, a comrade, a firebrand of hope who left us at just 26 years old. Twenty-six. A life tragically cut short by Aids.
And yet what he set in motion continues to echo across decades...
In 1984, at the height of the miners’ strike, when fear and hostility toward LGBTQ+ people were at a boiling point, Mark chose courage. He co-founded Le***ans and G**s Support the Miners and helped raise over £20,000 for families whose communities were under siege. But it wasn’t just money, it was love in action. It was solidarity made real. It was saying: your struggle is our struggle.
Those bonds changed this country. In 1985, the National Union of Mineworkers backed LGBTQ+ rights at the Labour Party conference in a moment that helped shift the political ground beneath our feet.
Mark did not live to see the repeal of Section 28. He did not see equal marriage become law. He did not see all people and young people able to grow up with a little less fear. But every one of those milestones carries something of him within it. His courage. His defiance. His belief that we are strongest when we stand together.
Causeway Pride now stands in the town where he grew up. To us its personal. It is more than a celebration, it is a protest, it is a living tribute. It is our promise that the spirit of solidarity he embodied still breathes here. That when people are targeted, isolated, or struggling, we will not look away. We will show up.
Mark’s life reminds us that even in the darkest political moments, small groups of committed people can create ripples that become waves. He may not have lived to see the victories that followed, but we are living in part because of them.
We are continuing the work to create a permanent memorial in his honour something lasting, something worthy of the legacy he left behind. We hope to be able to make an announcement very soon.
Mark Ashton’s life was heartbreakingly short but his impact is immeasurable.
And his solidarity still calls us forward.