Dublin Pride, rewriting history

An update:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dublin-pride-removes-altered-photo-of-protest-from-its-website-after-complaints/a1068338702.html

'Since the posts highlighting the altered image were published in June, Dublin Pride has removed the altered image from the history part of its website and replaced it with a graphic depicting various protests.
A note has been added that says the graphic is based on iconic images from different historical protests and celebrations “along with the obvious addition of a sign saying ‘Trans rights are human rights’”.'

@ArabeIIaScott nope a big disappointment in Cork & Dublin. Very poor showing for pride in both cities.. The Cork pride committee were disgusted they were only allocated 8k in funding this year..

I'm surprised people didn't turn out to just to fucking rage at them for their revisionism.

Very poor turn out in Dublin today apparently.

Cork was also badly attended.

My lgb friends steered clear of both despite a big push on social about the importance of attending this year. They stayed away as pride no longer represents them

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Thanks for those excellent tweets from Simon Edge, tasty!

It is all about convincing people that ‘trans people were ALWAYS here’, innit?

Well, yes. There was some trans people back when that photo was taken, but certainly not there or with those signs!

This dishonesty is all they have.

It was a march to honour a man who was murdered by homophobes. Centring trans in that just shows exactly why the LGB should have nothing to do with the T.

Yes, it's shocking.

But I guess for a movement which relies so very heavily on rewriting individuals' history, they simply can't see how wrong and misleading this is.

An important tenet of gender ideology is "our history is whatever we say it is" and this is how that manifests.

This reply in the Twitter thread is spot on: https://twitter.com/DevonshireDan1/status/1672507815284408320

FFS! What an absolute disgrace.

Yes @DemiColon these things jump off the page or the screen to me.

But ....I keep forgetting I'm ancient.

I find it interesting that they think people would not immediately say, that is not real, because it's so anachronistic.

But they are probably right, so many people now seem to not even notice this kind of thing. I was on a thread in aibu that talked about anachronistic attitudes on historical television series, and so many people seem blase, and don't really even notice.

I suspect it is because they don't realize.

I think its simply a complete lack of integrity. It suits them to have people believe the doctored image is real so they don't care.

The thing that fucks me off is that those original gay and lesbian pioneers of gay rights fought for gay rights at real risk to themselves, both physically and in terms of their livelihood. There is a reason that those old images have so much impact.
Instead, people who weren't there and are now actively promoting homophobia are claiming that bravery for themselves while erasing the people who actually were.
I can't begin to describe how detestable that behaviour is.

But even with the additional note, regardless of when it was added, why do they still think having such an awful doctored photo still up is a good idea? It’s deep fake territory and they’re happy for it to persist.

They added the bit about the image after they were called out on it. The original page didn't mention anything about the image being doctored. Presumably, they're so used to erasing gay history amd inserting themselves into it that it didn't occur to them that anyone would object. Fortunately, someone archived it before the change.
Difference shown in screenshots attached.

To clarify, I do think they are deliberately misleading people, but they are just about subtle enough about it to be able to pretend that they are being truthful. Disgraceful manipulation of history.

I see that the Dublin Pride website has this below the image:

"Note on image: This is a graphic that includes a couple of iconic images from different historical protests along with the obvious addition of a sign saying “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.”"

But it also says this on the same page:

"By the late 1970’s, the National LGBT Federation had begun to organise an annual Dublin Pride week that included events in the Hirschfeld Centre and a picnic in Merrion Square."

... and this is from the National LGBT Federation website:

"February 2014- NLGF renamed to National LGBT Federation
The National Lesbian and Gay Federation was renamed as the National LGBT Federation (NXF)."

Not quite indefensible, but seriously misleading.

Just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower, a new depth is plumbed.

Wow, that's despicable

How awful. Disrespecting the memory of a gay man killed by homophobic thugs.

Changing a photo of the subsequent protest to insert a trans rights placard in place of the original one from 1983.

Is literally nothing sacred to these goons?

RIP Declan Flynn.