• Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week

    BeLonG To is very excited to be launching a new advocacy campaign, Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week! Stand Up! is aimed at creating positive understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people and their issues.

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  • What we've been up to

  • STAND Up! My Best Friend visits the Gaze Film Festival

    Jul
    27

    We're are really excited that our film STAND UP: MY BEST FRIEND, will feature as part of this year's Gaze Film Festival, STAND UP will be shown on Monday the 2nd of August at 8.30pm in the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield. For more information and to purchase tickets click here.

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  • STAND Up! My Best Friend - Premiers This Weekend

    Jul
    06

    We're are really excited to announce that our film STAND UP: MY BEST FRIEND, premieres at OUT on Film, the LGBTQ strand to the Galway Film Fleadh on July 10th at 9pm in the Cinemobile.

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  • Video - Sticks & Stones

    Apr
    14

    The fifth of our Videos as part of the Stand Up! Awareness Week, in this clip young people share their experiences of homophobia and discrimination.

     

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  • Video - Coming Out to Each Other

    Apr
    13

    The Second of our Videos as part of the Stand Up! Awareness Week, in this clip young people share their experiences of coming out.


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  • Video - Best Friends Forever

    Apr
    13

    The Third of our Videos as part of the Stand Up! Awareness Week, in this clip young people share their experiences of with their friends.

     

    Funded by the European Commission under the PROGRESS Programme (2007 - 2013)

       

     

     

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  • Video - Coming Out

    Apr
    13

    The Second of our Videos as part of the Stand Up! Awareness Week, in this clip young people share their experiences of coming out.

     

    Funded by the European Commission under the PROGRESS Programme (2007 - 2013)

       

     

     

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  • Video - Gay or Straight?

    Apr
    09

    The first video as part of BeLonG To's, Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week - meet all of the gay young people who have chosen to share their personal stories with you and the stories of their straight friends who support to them.

     

    Funded by the European Commission under the PROGRESS Programme (2007 - 2013)

       

     

     

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  • Let’s all stand up and march as one

    Apr
    09

     

    As I am sure you all know we launched Stand Up! last night in a blaze of dance, color and fun at the National Performing Arts School in Dublin, we've really been taken aback by the response to the campaign and we've received many stories, emails and letters over the last day from individuals who are supporting the campaign, we've chosen the poem below which is one of the many submissions we have received to let you all see how engaged and supportive of the campaign people are.

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  • Stand Up! Launches Today!

    Apr
    08

    TV Presenter Anna Nolan and the Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan launch our STAND UP! Campaign today!

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  • Stand Up! Goes Viral!

    Mar
    25

    We're only a very short time away from Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week kicking off nationwide and today the campaign went live on facebook so if you're supporting the campaign and you want to become a fan you can get involved right here.

    The campaign will also have a twitter presence, so you can follow us on twitter here, and the hashtag for the Stand Up! Campaign is #standup.

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  • Resource Packs for this Years Campaign Going in the Post!

    Mar
    09

    We've all been working really hard here on the campaign and this week all our resource packs are going in the post in advance of trainings all across the country, below you'll see some photographs of all the packs being put together and being sent to the post.

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  • We're making three short documentary films!

    Feb
    23

    As part of the Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week we are creating three short documentary films and we need participants!

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