Publications

Disregard and Redress: Restorative Justice for people impacted by Ireland’s anti-gay laws.

Publication date: 14 November 2022.

Gay Project instructed international law firm Clifford Chance to prepare a multi-jurisdictional survey to establish the nature and scope of Expungement Legislation. See the results for Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Scotland and Spain.

Publication Date: 1st December 2022

Media coverage leading up the State Apology in 2018 and of the proposed disregard scheme for convictions under the laws which criminalised gay and bisexual men up to 1993 (November 2016-July 2022).

Publication date: 29 November 2022.

An archive of Oireachtas references regarding the State Apology to the LGBT community and proposed legislation for the Disregard of Convictions.

Publication date: 29 November 2022.

An archive of media coverage of the Pardon Scheme for historic same-sex criminal offences created by extending the UK ‘Alan Turing Law’ to Northern Ireland in 2017.

Publication Date: November 2022

2023 is the 30th anniversary of the equality-based gay law reform and the Unfair Dismissals Act that included sexual orientation for the first time, among other anniversaries. This document lists extensive resources relating to that remarkable journey to decriminalisation and the camapign for equality.

Publication Date: April 2023