Other Place LGBT Community Centre Cork 1991-2015
The Other Place LGBT Community Centre opened in 1991 in a four storey building on the corner of Augustine Street and South Main Street in Cork.
The opening of the Other Place allowed for the provision of a safe space and services for the LGBT community. Weekly discos and social events were held in the centre; there was a café, meeting spaces, a bookshop, resource centre and offices. The Other Place also provided employment for LGBT workers under the Social Employment Scheme. The Munster GCN, a four page supplement to the GCN, was produced by staff in The Other Place. In Munster it was placed on the outside of the GCN, and was an insert for the rest of the country. There was a Lesbian Health Project and the Gay Men's Health Project. A Bisexual Group met regularly at the Other Place. The first TENI (Transgender Equality Network of Ireland) support group met in the Other Place.
Weekly discos and socials were held in The Other Place. The entrance to the club was down a dark alley, and the toilets were know to leak onto the dance floor, but the club provided a really important regular social space for the LGBT community. A range of activities and projects were organised in or from the Other Place, including the first Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 1991 and the first LGBT float in a Patrick's Day Parade in Ireland in 1992.