Transcript NI gay history presentation Jeff Dudgeon 27 March 2014

PRIDE IN THE CITI
BELFAST NETWORK
LAUNCH
Jeffrey Dudgeon
27 March 2014
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The story starts:
Jeff Dudgeon aged 7
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1963: Boy Scout bridge – Jeff
Dudgeon 4th. from right
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1968: Trinity College Dublin opera outing, Jeff Dudgeon
second right
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1968 - Jeff reading ‘Trial of
Oscar Wilde’ by
Montgomery Hyde in TCD
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1968: Jeff Dudgeon (centre)
and friends on rock sleeping
site - Calvi in Corsica
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Graduation with
parents TCD 1968
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Raymond and Jeff in Spain
1968
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Roger Casement: The Black
Diaries by Jeffrey Dudgeon –
published 2002
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Casement's Indian boys who came
to London from Peru in 1911 Ricudo & Omarino portrait by Sir
William Rothenstein
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1895: Roger Casement
studio photograph
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c. 1900 Oscar Wilde and Lord
Alfred Douglas (Bosie)
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1913 Roger Casement portrait
by Sarah Purser in National
Gallery of Ireland
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Herbert Hughes who wrote ‘My
Lagan Love’ grave-rubbing with
Francis Joseph Bigger c. 1904
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1957: Sir John Wolfenden
author of report on
homosexuality and
prostitution
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Montgomery Hyde MP, author
of ‘The Other Love’ electioneering in North Belfast
1955
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1974: Jeff Dudgeon in
Ulsterville Gardens,
Belfast
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1975: Belfast Gay Lib personnel –
front row: Doug Sobey, Brian
Gilmore, Jeff Dudgeon
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Belfast Gay Liberation
Society (hairy faction) at 4
University Street 1974
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1975: Jeff Dudgeon in Doug
Sobey's garden at time of
Strasbourg case
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1975: BBC Northern Ireland TV
studio discussion: Jeff Dudgeon
with Kevin Merritt and Maeve
Malley
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Rev. Ian Paisley MP, First
Minister and Save Ulster From
Sodomy campaigner in QUB
(photo taken by me)
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European Convention on
Human Rights
- Council of Europe
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1981: Jeff Dudgeon in
Strasbourg for European
Court of Human Rights
hearing
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1981: Eckhard Prinz from
nearby Heidelberg – NIGRA’s
German agent at Strasbourg
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Jeff Dudgeon (NI) and
Alecos Modinos (Cyprus)
– Strasbourg victors
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1992: Irish President Mary
Robinson and Kieran Rose at historic
reception for gays in Áras an
Uachtaráin; also David Norris, Jeff
Dudgeon, Tom McAllister, PA
MagLochlainn and Billy Adair
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Jeff Dudgeon in Amish
country Pennsylvania 2000
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Jeff Dudgeon at Belfast
Pride 2007 – ‘Love is a
Human Right’
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Pride 2008: NIGRA President PA
MagLochlainn receiving homage
from Andrew Muir of GLAD
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July 2008: Jeff Dudgeon in
Killarney
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2008: Denis Kehoe (novelist), Ruth
McCarthy, Senator David Norris, and
Jeff Dudgeon at Outburst, Linen Hall
Library Belfast
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Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize
Winner for Literature) and Jeff
Dudgeon at home in Belfast 2010
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Jeff Dudgeon and David
Norris at TCD Seanad
nominations 2012
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Princess Anne at Jeff
Dudgeon’s Buckingham
Palace Investiture in 2012
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Jeff Dudgeon getting MBE medal
with Richard Kennedy (NIGRA
President) at Buckingham Palace
2012
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PA MagLochlainn (late NIGRA
President) – tribute scooters and
costumes on Belfast Pride
Parade 2013
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Alliance Party on Parade –
Belfast Gay Pride 2013
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Sinn Fein on Belfast Pride
Parade 2013
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NI Conservatives at
Belfast Gay Pride 2013
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Haass talks 2013 – Jeff
Dudgeon and Robin Swann
MLA
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Jeff Dudgeon with rival
Casement biographer
Angus Mitchell in Tralee 2013
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Jeff Dudgeon (UUP candidate for
Balmoral DEA) at City Hall with Jim
Nicholson MEP 2014
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Darcy in back garden
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End of presentation
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