{"id":507648,"date":"2026-06-19T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:55:13","slug":"watch-new-space-for-lgbtq-young-people-opens-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/507648\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: New space for LGBTQ+ young people opens in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new space for LGBTQ+ young people has just launched in Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Belong To, the national LGBTQ+ youth organisation, has designed the space to be somewhere people can come to connect with others, take part in workshops and group activities, and access counselling services.<\/p>\n<p>The space at their office in Dublin 2 was designed with input from young people who engage with the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safe spaces like this are so important for LGBTQ+ young people to feel like they belong and they can be themselves,&#8221; youth worker Brenda Kelly told RT\u00c9 News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also know from our young people that come into the service that bullying and discrimination, and just generally feeling unsafe, is a lot higher among the community, so spaces like this are vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to hear more from Brenda and some of the young people who use the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new space for LGBTQ+ young people has just launched in Dublin city centre. Belong To, the national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-507648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}