History

Parents were able to contact GSD and be given the telephone number of a parent who would listen and talk with them in complete confidence. Whenever parents felt (feel) the need to meet with one of our Parents this was and still is always possible.

Some open meetings have also been held down the years in Dublin venues. The parents' group has become larger since 1998 and now also has four members in Clonmel, Waterford and Ennis. The original name for LOOK was Parents' Inquiry, with the name changing to Parents’ Support in 1993, came a booklet and leaflet “Is Your Child Gay or Lesbian”?

This was the year that homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland, and, along with other organisations dealing with gay issues, we were invited to a celebration at the Áras.

Once we became a bit better known, there came requests to appear on television and radio programmes such as The Late Show, Marian Finucane, Gerry Ryan, Morning Ireland, 5-7 Live (now Drive Time) on RTE Radio 1.

And a number of local radio stations, for instance Waterford local radio and Kildare local radio Various organisations such as the LGBT groups in UCD and the Irish Nurses' Association have asked for our input as well as Sensitivity Training for priests and nuns. The Gardai in recent years asked us to give informal talks about who we are and what we do at the sensitivity training of their own community officers, and these have been very successful.