Belong To launches free resources for schools and youth services to mark a decade of Marriage Equality

To mark 10 years since Ireland’s historic marriage equality campaign, Belong To is launching a resource to help young people explore what the campaign meant to the LGBTQ+ community at that time, and what it continues to mean today.

This resource is aimed at those working with young people in any setting, such as a school, youth service or Youthreach centre. Activity ideas centre on creating campaigns, facilitating discussion and storytelling.

This resource contains three activities which can be carried out with young people in your youth service or education setting. The activities can be adapted to

the length of time available and number of young people participating.

Young people played a vital role in the success of the campaign. The impact of young LGBTQ+ people raising their voices, demanding to be treated equally under the law, and describing the importance of one day being able to marry the person they love, was a powerful decider for many people choosing to vote yes.

Through this resource, we hope that the young people of Ireland today will be inspired to realise their potential to become active in creating the kind of fairer, more equal society that they want to live in.