LGBTI Pride
Pride at UCD February 2025
To celebrate Pride and LGBTI+ Inclusion in UCD the Colleges and VP areas hold the Pride Coffee Mornings for employees in collaboration with UCD Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit and UCD EDI LGBTI Subgroup. UCD Pride Coffee mornings are held in February to coincide with LGBTI+ History Month and UCD Student's Union LGBTI+ inclusion initiatives.
Below, you can read some information on the events and watch back our How To Be An Ally Workshop which took place in association with Dublin Pride.
Events
11th February, 10:00am
Dignity and Respect for UCD LGBTQI+ Community, Cultivating Allyship for an Inclusive Campus
We welcome members of our LGBTQIA+ Community and all UCD employees and students who have an interest in learning more about cultivating allyship and championing an inclusive UCD for LGBTQI+ students and employees. Find out more and book your place via the webpage: Register
UCD Pride Coffee Mornings: February 2025
Research, Innovation and Impact: 11th February, 1:00 pm, Foyer, UCD Research Building
College of Social Sciences and Law: 19th February, 11:00 am, D101 Newman Building
College of Engineering and Architecture: 19th February, 11:00 am, Engineering Common Room, Engineering Building
College of Health and Agricultural Sciences: 20th February,12:00pm, foyer of the Veterinary Sciences Building
College of Science: 24th February, 11:30am, Zone 2 (Ground Floor Atrium opposite the Welcome Centre)
College of Arts and Humanities: 25th February, 11:00am, Rosemary Mulcahy Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Newman Building.
Human Resources, SIRC and Legal: 25th February, 12:00pm, UCD Village, Balcony
College Business:
25 February,11:00pm, UCD Quinn School of Business (contemplative space)
27 February, 11:00pm, UCD Smurfit School of Business (Student Common Room)
UCD Library: LGBTI+ History Month Celebration
26th February, 1:00 pm
Join UCD Library for refreshments and a reading from Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland's LGBTQ Past by Páraic Kerrigan. Link 3 space in the James Joyce Library. Register via the link: (opens in a new window)Eventbrite
Why Celebrate Pride?
This is an excellent opportunity for UCD Colleges/Professional Areas to formally ‘come out’ in support of their LGBTI+ colleagues and students. Celebrating Pride affirms the value of LGBTI+ visibility, allyship, and inclusion in fostering UCD’s values of collegiality and diversity.
Benefits of celebrating Pride include:
- Fostering a welcoming and inclusive, work and learning environment where LGBTI+ people feel they can be open about their sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
- Recognising the value LGBTI+ people bring in shaping the culture of this University.
- Encouraging greater visible engagement from allies.
- An opportunity for senior leaders to visibly communicate inclusion of LGBTI+ staff and students and promoting allyship.
- Standing in solidarity with LGBTI+ people in Ireland against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. The rise in anti-LGBTI+ violence in Ireland is deeply upsetting. Hate crime statistics published by (opens in a new window)An Garda Síochána in March 2023 indicate that there has been a 29% increase in reported hate crimes & hate related (non-crime) incidents with 582 hate crimes & hate related (non-crime) incidents recorded in 2022 (448 in 202). Sexual orientation was cited as the second most prevalent discriminatory motive after racist attacks. UCD condemns racist and LGBTI+ violence and all hate-related incidents and crimes.
- Leveraging the opportunity for to start/expand dialogue with employees on how your area can foster greater LGBTI inclusion of LGBTI+ employees and students.
UCD EDI Pride Pack
UCD EDI are providing a UCD Pride Starter Pack to support UCD Colleges/VP areas to hold a Pride Coffee Morning.
UCD Pride Digital Email Signatures and Posters
Advice is available from UCD LGBTI Subgroup and UCD EDI on organising Pride Coffee Mornings. Contact (opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)edi@ucd.ie for guidance.
Playback: How To Be An Ally Workshop
In association with Dublin LGBTQ Pride and the Pride at Work training programme, we were delighted to host a workshop for all staff entitled "How To Be An Ally".
This one hour workshop aimed to show people how they can make a huge difference through everyday acts of kindness. Being an LGBTQ+ ally can make a huge difference for those in the workplace, as well as in everyday life, whether you show your allyship by showing up to Pride Parades or just standing up against homophobia or transphobia. It is super easy too – but sometimes we may worry about using our voices in case we offend or say the wrong thing.
The session was facilitated by Christelle "Chris" Gebhardt (they/them). Christelle joined the Dublin Pride Team in November 2020 after graduating from UCD with an MA in Cultural Policy & Arts Management. Initially starting as Communications Assistant, Chris has since taken on the role of Cultural Programming & DEIB Training Manager at Pride. Over the years, they've worked with various arts organisations, festivals and non-profits in their native Austria, Germany and Ireland.
You can watch a video recording of the workshop (23 June 2022) here:
