Suzanne Harrington: Amid the glory and glitter, it’s easy to forget that Pride began as a protest

"Brave people representing an invisible community, legislated against by the church/state machine, at best ignored and unacknowledged, at worst othered and monstered. Not anymore."

Cork Pride: the pride of our city.

It’s almost Pride o’clock. Rainbow colours, glitter and sequins, leather and lycra, buzzcuts and Birkenstocks, jeans, and t-shirts -- where ever you are on the queerometer, it’s time to celebrate. 

When it comes to irrepressible exuberance, there’s nothing quite like Pride; it’s as if centuries of being squashed flat inside cramped closets constructed by the rest of us has concentrated the effervescence, carbonated the outness and proudness until it fizzes over like shaken champagne.