New Pride window in Belfast City Hall

Ok, so it's still not on Belfast Live. I'm surprised because they print anything that'll get them clicks and comments.

Where are you seeing this?

It’s quite simply an opportunity for this man to virtue signal his ‘goodness'

He didn't commission it. Hes not responsible for it. He unveiled it and said nice things. He's the mayor. It's his job. What do you want him to do?

There are boys who paint muriels on the estates who, well, their work isn't popular with everyone on political grounds, but they know not to make their image too busy.

Is it on Belfast Live? I checked at the start of the thread but there was nothing. Or are you seeing it somewhere else?

Going over to have a look now.🙈

I don’t recall saying that he commissioned it, how is that relevant?

You might want to take a look at what the good rate paying people of Belfast are saying, and it’s not a ringing endorsement. He seems to have form for spending large sums on things that people don’t believe are necessary, the FOI requests are piling up!

The mayor didn't commission it. The council did. He just unveiled it and said the same sort of stuff people doing unveiling say.😆

This ⬆️😂

A good standard of aesthetic attractiveness would be an achievement.

I don't find it garish, but that's personal taste I know. I think it's very clear. What's confusing you?

not all of them rate payers, surely
Who, what are you talking about?

I don’t think the money needed to be spent at all at this point when there are so many people in need. It’s quite simply an opportunity for this man to virtue signal his ‘goodness’, people in his position are always thinking about their ‘legacies’, and not about real people in real need.

What do you think a stained glass window commemorating history can or should achieve?

Perhaps, but it could have celebrated it better.

What a pity they couldn't have come up with something that celebrates the people (not all of them rate payers, surely) who campaigned for lesbian and gay rights in a piece of work that is less garish and graphically confused.

Could you tell me something I don’t know? What does this window actually achieve NOW? When people everywhere are struggling to pay their mortgages and bills and feed their children, but sure, go and look at a £25k stained glass window, I’m sure that’ll make the kids less hungry.

Didn’t Pride ban the organisation that fights against homophobia from attending their events?

It appeals to the people who were there. The Belfast rate payers who campaigned for gay rights. Who know the story told by the window. The history of a place where homophobia was so rife that political and church leaders protested against the natural, factual state of human homosexuality.

It celebrates something that was achieved.

Belfast has a great art scene. Not as great as it was before we Brexited, but pretty good all the same.

What specifically do you like to take the piss out of @SionnachRuadh?

Suggestions please @suggestionsplease1 but obviously thank you for yet another attempt at policing what we discuss on here, you never fail to disappoint.

I sometimes take the piss out of Belfast's pretensions to having an arts scene, but there are artists in the city who can create something a bit more visually appealing than this jumble of slogans and logos.

But I suppose municipal art is usually disappointing.

It's also very much on brand for Alliance to wrap themselves in a struggle that not only took place before Micky Murray was born - he can't help that - but that, when it might have made a difference, they couldn't run away from quick enough.

I am rolling in it @teawamutu I’ll throw a secret underground party later this year and I’ll divvy up, I promise 😂

Some people are of the opinion that it's confused, garish, and disappointing, which is a shame as it is commemorating something that deserved a much better example of stained glass art.

Is that OK with you? or will you dismiss it as
'homophobia, you don't need to dress it up in faux hand wringing.'

Or even real hand wringing, presumably?

Huh?

It marks an important time and fight for gay rights in NI. What's misogynist about that?

The sodomy reference is a bit immature. Yeah yeah, we get the Paisley reference, but turning the words around does not make it funny, and certainly does not make it relevant to a lesbian and gay-themed design - sodomy?

It's relevant to what it's commemorating. It's what the protestors wore.

One doesn't need to be homophobic to realise it looks shit.

I know what councils are responsible for in NI. I live there. It’s my general annoyance at what public money gets spent on. Priorities aren’t right across the board. Yes, I know it’s a bit unreasonable but it’s what I think right now after the struggling people I’ve interacted with today.