'Only certain people are celebrated here': Tackling racism in LGBTQ+ community

Pradeep Mahadeshwar, a gay Indian living in Dublin says he feels rejected by the LGBTQ+ community here. Picture: Vanessa Ifediora

A Cork-based charity has launched a new campaign to raise awareness about the racism queer men of colour and Travellers experience from within the LGBTQ+ community.

The Gay Project, a Cork organisation that have advocated for LGBTQI+ rights since the 1970s have launched the #ProudAF campaign in response to the “sexual racism, racial profiling, objectification and fetishisation, cultural differences and discrimination perpetuated by white and settled LGBTQI+ people.”