Amach LGBT

Amach! LGBT Galway Ltd. announces seperation from the organising of Galway Community Pride

Friday January 6, 2012

Amach! Lgbt Galway Ltd. gave a statement at an open community meeting on Wednesday 23^rd November 2011 in Seville House Galway informing those present that a decision has been made by the board of directors of Amach! that they no longer have the people or time on the board to continue organising the annual Galway Community Pride. This decision has been taken to enable Amach! to fully engage in other important work that can further the development of the LGBT community.

Amach! LGBT Galway Ltd! recommends that a separate legally constituted group is set up, which is made up of volunteers, community-based, non-for-profit, and broadly representative of the community. This group would have the sole responsibility for the organising and running of the annual community pride festival and that this group would work on pride throughout the year, every year.

Members of the community present on 23^rd are holding a community meeting on Wednesday 18^th January 2012 in the Harbour Hotel, Galway City, with a view to establishing a newly constituted group for the running of Galway Community Pride. This meeting will be hosted by members of the community not currently involved with Amach! and facilitated by Poul Walsh Olesen, lgbt diversity officer. We campaign for volunteers to attend this meeting and stand forward to establish this group. This is your community, your Pride. Without the Volunteers Galway Community pride will not continue in 2012.

AMACH! LGBT Awareness Sessions

Monday November 21, 2011

AMACH! LGBT will be holding awareness sessions in Oughterard and Gort over the next two weeks. These sessions which are open to the general public, will include screenings of the ID documentary made about the LGBT community in Galway city and county. There will be plenty of information about AMACH! and the LGBT community and members of the board of AMACH! will be present to join in the discussion and answer any questions.
The first session is in Oughterard on Thursday 24th November at 7pm in the Clann Resource Centre.
The second session will take place in the Gort Family Resource Centre on Tuesday 29th November at 8pm.
We hope to hold more of these sessions around the county in the near future.
We are very grateful to the Galway Rural Development who have funded this project and to the Family Resource Centre network for providing venues.

New Womens group for Galway

SHEnanigans is a new social group for women in Galway who identify as LGBTQ. The group is for women who want to meet new people, develop new friendships, participate in common interests, network, share resources, build a sense of community and at the end of the day have a bit of craic. It is a [...]

Amach Training For New Directors

We are awaiting confirmation of dates for delivering training for new board members and hope to announce this by the end of November. We are delighted with the number of people who expressed an interest in becomming a member of the board to date following the meeting in September. If you didnt make the meeting [...]

LGBT Community Meeting

AMACH! LGBT Galway Ltd. are holding an LGBT community meeting on Wednesday 23rd November in Seville House on New Dock St at 6.30pm. At this meeting there will be a report on Galway Community Pride 2011 and the future of pride going forward. All welcome to attend.

Open Meeting held 14th Sept 2011

An opening meeting was held to discuss what is involved in being a voluntary Director of Amach!LGBT Galway Ltd. About 20 people came along to the meeting at which a lively discussion took place. Those present were invited to consider participating in training and possibly joining Amach! as directors. A brief history of Amach! and [...]