Causeway Pride

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August 1st 2026

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 18d

We thank Feile an Phobial for choosing to do the right thing We Stand in support of them

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 18d

We implore Feile to stand by their decision Trans people are not a bargaining chip, nor are the the rest of the LGBTQIA+ Community

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 19d

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 21d

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 22d

Please see our joint statement with @mams4transni.bsky.social

Causeway Pride and Mams 4 Trans NI are appalled by Féile an Phobail's decision to provide a platform to Sex Matters, an organisation that has consistently campaigned against the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people.

This is not simply a difference of opinion. It is a decision to amplify a group whose work has contributed to making life harder for one of the most marginalised communities in our society.
Féile an Phobail was built on principles of equality, solidarity and giving a voice to those who have been excluded. Those values matter. They are the reason so many people have supported and respected Féile over the years.
That is why this decision is so profoundly disappointing.

Every invitation is a choice. Every platform sends a message about whose voices deserve to be amplified. At a time when trans people are facing relentless political attacks, rising hate and repeated attempts to strip away their rights, choosing to host an organisation dedicated to opposing those rights sends a message that cannot be ignored.

There is nothing progressive about legitimising discrimination.
There is nothing community-minded about platforming an organisation whose campaigning has left countless trans people feeling less safe, less welcome and less human.
And there is nothing brave about punching down on a community already under attack.

We are therefore calling on Féile an Phobail to immediately cancel this event.

If it proceeds, we will organise a peaceful protest outside the venue in solidarity with our trans community. We invite allies, trade unionists, community organisations and everyone who believes in equality to stand with us and send a clear message that trans people belong in our communities, and that attempts to legitimise campaigns against their rights will never go unchallenged.

Solidarity is not something you claim when it is convenient.
It is something you demonstrate when those with the least power are under attack.

We urge Féile an P…

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 22d

Feile an Phobail has decided to platform a terf

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· 22d

Coming to march with us on August 1st? Be sure to stick around after! Speeches 1.30 Parade 2.00 Entertainment 3.00

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jul 1

Pride Month is over BUT! We are STILL HERE & STILL Proud!! Sign up now to walk in our Parade! August 1st 2026 tinyurl.com/causewaypride26

Image showing people walking in causeway pride

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jun 24

Joint Statement from Causeway Pride & @mams4transni.bsky.social

Causeway Pride and Mams 4 Trans NI are deeply disappointed by the decision to prevent Northern Ireland Civil Service staff from participating in Pride events in an official capacity.

Pride is a celebration of equality, visibility and community. It is not a political endorsement, nor does the participation of one civil servant in any way diminish the rights, beliefs or freedoms of another who chooses not to take part. Inclusion is not a zero-sum game.

This decision sends a troubling message to LGBTQIA+ staff: that their identities and communities must be kept at arm's length in order to appear "neutral". Neutrality should never mean invisibility.

It also raises an important question of consistency. If civil servants are expected to avoid participating in Pride in an official capacity, does the same principle apply to events organised by religious communities or other identity-based groups? If not, LGBTQIA+ staff are being held to a different standard.

Trade unions and staff networks exist to ensure workplaces are safe, inclusive and representative. We encourage unions and staff representatives to stand with LGBTQIA+ members and challenge policies that single out one protected community for different treatment.

A civil servant does not stop being LGBTQIA+ when they put on their lanyard, just as they do not stop being a parent, a trade union member, a person of faith or a volunteer. Public service should never require people to leave fundamental parts of themselves at the door.

We stand in unwavering solidarity with every LGBTQIA+ civil servant affected by this decision and call on the Northern Ireland Civil Service to reconsider its position.

No one loses rights when LGBTQIA+ people are visible. No one is harmed when public servants celebrate the communities they belong to. Inclusion is not a finite resource, and equality is not achieved by making one group disappear.

Pride has always been an act of visibility. We will continue to stand with every LGBTQIA+ person who refuses to be told that authenticity is incompatible with public service.

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jun 12

**Pride organisations across Northern Ireland have come together in solidarity to make an important decision.**

Following last year’s position, we will again not be accepting applications from parties within the Northern Ireland Executive to participate in 2026 Pride Festivals across Northern Ireland. Individuals may participate in a personal capacity; however, the display of party branding, political endorsements, or representation of any political party that forms the Northern Ireland Executive is not permitted.

This reflects the continued failure to deliver the rights, healthcare, protections, and dignity that trans people in Northern Ireland urgently need and deserve.

Pride is more than celebration it is protest. It is rooted in action, not words. As organisers, we have a responsibility to protect these spaces and ensure they represent genuine, meaningful support for our communities.

Until clear and accountable standards are in place, we cannot offer a platform to those who have not demonstrated real commitment to LGBTQIA+ equality.

We urge the Executive to move beyond rhetoric and take tangible action, especially for trans people, across policy, healthcare, and lived experience.

**Our communities deserve dignity, safety, and equality.**

Pride is protest.
Pride is solidarity.
Pride demands action.

**Logos shown:**

* Trans Pride NI
* Belfast Pride Festival
* Lurgan Pride
* Foyle Pride Festival
* Fermanagh Pride
* Omagh Pride
* Causeway Pride
* Mid & East Antrim Pride
* Newry Pride

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jun 9

Causeway Pride is appalled by the scenes of violence, intimidation and destruction witnessed following tonight's demonstrations.

Homes have been attacked. Property has been damaged. Families have been left frightened in their own communities. Streets have been turned into arenas for mob violence. There can be no excuses, no caveats, and no attempts to dress this up as legitimate protest. It was not. It was criminality.

What makes tonight's events even more infuriating is that they were entirely foreseeable.

Previously, we called for calm, restraint and respect for due process. Many others did the same. Yet as tensions rose, some political representatives chose not to lead but to follow. Some chose not to calm fears but to amplify them. Some chose not to challenge dangerous rhetoric but to indulge it.

Leadership is not standing in front of a camera after the damage is done and expressing concern. Leadership is using your voice before the violence starts.

Too many elected representatives failed that test.

At a moment when communities needed reassurance, responsibility and clear calls for restraint, we instead saw grievance elevated above responsibility and political calculation placed ahead of community safety. Those who spent time fuelling anger and then express shock at the consequences should reflect carefully on the role they have played.

We are also deeply concerned by attempts to use these events to target entire communities, sow division, and roll back years of progress towards a more inclusive and cohesive society. There are those who see every crisis as an opportunity to create fear, identify scapegoats and pit neighbour against neighbour. They should be called out for exactly what they are doing.

Northern Ireland knows where this road leads. We know the cost of allowing rumours to spread unchecked, of allowing fear to become hatred, and of allowing political cowardice to masquerade as leadership. We have paid that price before. We should not be payi…

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jun 9

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Jun 5

Join us Friday 12th! Free admission and refreshments (including gluten free options)

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· May 31

Tomorrow the logos will change.
The rainbows will appear in shop windows. Banks will discover they have always cared. Corporations will dust off their annual declarations of allyship and schedule their social media posts down to the minute.
And every year I find myself thinking about how strange it is that we've been taught to mistake visibility for victory.
Because Pride did not begin in a boardroom.
It began in anger.
It began when people who had been beaten, arrested, mocked, abandoned and criminalised decided they had reached the end of their patience.
June 1969. The police raid the Stonewall Inn yet again. This time, people fight back.
Not politicians. Not CEOs. Not the respectable faces that would later appear on magazine covers.
Drag queens. Trans women. Sex workers. Butches. Homeless queer kids.
The people society had already decided were disposable.
Black queer people. Brown queer people. Trans people.
Those living at the sharpest intersections of oppression,
carrying the weight of racism, poverty, misogyny
and queerphobia all at once.
People like Marsha P. Johnson. Sylvia Rivera.
Stormé DeLarverie. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

People who were told they were too loud, too difficult, too much.
The modern LGBTQ+ movement was not born from acceptance.
It was born from resistance.
And perhaps the most tragic thing about Pride's history is how quickly the people who built it were pushed to the margins of the movement they helped create.
A riot became a parade.
A revolution became a marketing strategy.
The stories of Black and Brown queer people were softened, sidelined or erased altogether. The movement became whiter, wealthier and more respectable. The people who had fought on the front lines were too often treated as an inconvenient reminder of where our freedom actually came from.
Today, as politicians, newspapers and culture warriors obsess over trans people, it is impossible not to notice the echoes of the past. Once again, the most marginalised members of our community are being singled out, scapegoated and treated as acceptable collateral damage.
And once again, too many people who have found comfort within the system are staying quiet.
The rights that many white cisgender gay men enjoy today
were not won alone. They were built on foundations laid by trans women, drag queens, sex workers, Black and Brown
queer activists, and countless others who put their
bodies on the line when doing so carried
enormous risk.

Some paid for that struggle with their safety.
Some with their freedom.
Some with their lives.
Yet now, when trans people are under attack, when racism continues to shape the lives of queer people of colour, and when the most vulnerable members of our community are still fighting for dignity and safety, many of those who have benefited most from the movement's successes seem content to pull the ladder up behind them.
Not all, of course. There are countless gay men standing shoulder to shoulder with their trans siblings and with queer people of colour. But there are far too many who have mistaken personal acceptance for collective liberation.
Pride was never supposed to be a club where the most accepted members got to lock the door behind them.
It was supposed to be a promise:
NOBODY gets left behind.
So before Pride Month begins, I think it's worth remembering that Pride was never meant to make comfortable people feel comfortable.
It was meant to challenge power.
It was meant to demand liberation, not merely inclusion.
And liberation is unfinished business.
So enjoy the parades. Celebrate your community.
Dance. Laugh. Fall in love.
But don't forget why any of this exists.

Ask what happens after the rainbow logos come down.
Ask who is being protected and who is being sacrificed.
Ask whose voices are still being ignored.
Ask who still gets left behind.
And if you're going to honour Pride's history,
don't just wear the colours.
Stand with trans people.
Stand with queer people of colour.
Stand with those facing the sharpest edge of discrimination.
Stand with the people who are still fighting the battles
that made those colours possible.
Because Pride was never a gift handed down from above.
It was won by people who refused to disappear.
And that fight isn't over.

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· May 28

Pride month is almost upon us! We're looking forward to sharing this years exciting plans with you very soon!

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· May 10

@mams4transni.bsky.social

Tina McCombe helped build something so many of us now call home.

As one of the original conveners of Belfast Pride, she created space for LGBTQ+ people at a time when doing so required real courage.

Before Pride was widely celebrated, there were people like Tina who showed up, spoke out, and made visibility possible.

Her legacy lives on in every person who marches proudly today and every young queer person who knows they are not alone because of those who came before them.

May we honor her legacy
May she rest in pride

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Apr 20

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Apr 2

Join us on Saturday

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Mar 6

Sharing on behalf of Causeway Trades Union Council

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 26

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 24

Causeway Pride and @mams4transni.bsky.social are extremely honoured to welcome @alicemydaughter.bsky.social to this years event

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 21

We are watching it happen in real time.
We are angry because we understand the pattern.
We are angry because we know what state neglect looks like.
We are angry because trans children deserve care, not culture war theatre.

This is political.
This is ideological.
And it is cruel as fuck.

To every single Pride committee in the UK:
We need your help

Last year, we banned political parties who harmed us and the ones who claimed to be allies but would not fight for us as did the majority of prides in NI. Not because it was easy. Not because it was popular. But because Pride is not a corporate parade and it is not a political networking event.

It is a protest.

If a party supports, defends, or refuses to challenge policies that strip trans young people of healthcare, they do not belong on our stages. They do not deserve our platforms. They do not get to march under our flags while our community is under attack.

This year, we are calling on every Pride committee to join us and do the same.

No platform for parties that harm us.
No invitations for those who stay silent.
No photo opportunities for politicians who will not fight for trans kids.

If you are reading this tag your local Pride in the comments or share this post with them. Ask them directly: will you stand with trans young people, or will you platform the politicians hurting them?

Neutrality is not neutral. It sides with power.
Every single day without proper gender-affirming healthcare risks lives.

We MUST act now.
They failed to erase queer people in the 80s.
They will fail to erase trans people now.

We are not going anywhere.

Trans lives matter.

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 21

If you are reading this, please tag your local pride or share it with them. We MUST stand together

This is calculated harm..

The puberty blocker ban was rammed through with one excuse, we were told would “balance” the damage: a clinical trial. A pathway. A scrap of hope for trans kids who had just had their healthcare ripped away.

Now the trial is paused in both NI and England, quite possibly for good

So let’s stop pretending.
There is no pathway.
There is no cushion.
There is just a ban.

You do not get to strip healthcare from trans children and then quietly withdraw the only alternative you offered. You do not get to slam every door shut and still claim this is about safety.

We have seen this before...

During the AIDS crisis, the state moved slowly while queer people died quickly. Politicians hid behind “uncertainty” and “further evidence required” while a generation was wiped out. We buried activists like Mark Ashton. We buried thousands more whose names were never spoken in Parliament.

The government didn’t need to openly declare that gay lives were expendable. It just acted like they were.

And now trans kids are being told to wait. To endure. To accept that their survival is politically inconvenient.

Simply put: denying gender-affirming care increases suffering. It increases despair. It increases suicide risk. That is not hysteria, it is reality, lives HAVE been lost

Every single day without proper gender-affirming healthcare risks more lives.
If you permanently remove access to puberty blockers for under-18s, some of those young people will not survive to adulthood.

You know that.

And you are doing it anyway.

The Northern Ireland Executive cannot wash its hands of this. If you hold power, you own the consequences.
And Labour this is on you too.
You do not get to wrap yourselves in rainbow branding while backing, defending, or refusing to reverse policies that strip trans kids of healthcare. You do not get to speak about “equality” while calculating which minority is politically expendable. You do not get to court progressive voters while signalling to the right that trans children (or immigrants) are acceptable collateral damage.

If you support the ban, defend the ban, or fail to actively fight the ban then you are complicit.

Do not come to Pride looking for applause while trans kids are being locked out of care on your watch.

You cannot keep the ban and cancel the trial.
You cannot remove treatment and remove research.
You cannot manufacture harm and call it protection.

And if you think this ends with trans children, you are lying to yourselves and us. Reactionary politics never stops at one target.

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 17

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Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 17

To our trans siblings...
We see you.
We love you.
We’ve got you.

The last few weeks have been exhausting. The news cycle has felt relentless. Decisions about healthcare, headlines that question your existence, and the sheer volume of hostile commentary can take a real toll.

If you’re feeling angry, frightened, numb, or just very, very tired that makes sense. Be gentle with yourself. Log off when you need to. Curate your space. Spend time with people who remind you that you are whole and worthy exactly as you are.

You deserve dignity. You deserve healthcare grounded in compassion and evidence. You deserve to live openly and safely. No newspaper column, no social media pile-on, no political posturing can take away your inherent worth.

To our young trans people in particular: there are adults in this world who will fight for you, who will stand between you and harm, who believe you deserve a future full of joy. You are not alone and you never will be.

And to anyone struggling right now, our inbox is open. If you need a listening ear, a cup of tea, or just someone to sit with you in the storm, that space is here, and where possible we will signpost you to places you can get support if you need it.

We will not stop fighting for your rights. We will not stop challenging misinformation. We will not stop building a Northern Ireland where trans people can thrive.
Hold fast. Rest when you need to. We’re in this together.

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 14

A joint statement with @mams4transni.bsky.social

Causeway Pride@causewaypride· Feb 13