David Norris (Campaigner)

David Norris is an Irish gay rights campaigner, former university lecturer and longtime member of Seanad ireann (the Irish Senate). He is the founder of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with current President of Ireland Mary McAleese, and had Mary Robinson as one of his campaign's legal advisors. A prominent member of the Church of Ireland he has been spoken of as possibly the next President of Ireland, having been offered a nomination in for the 1997 presidential election. David Norris was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Ireland. A resident of North Great George's Street in Dublin, he is a member of the Irish Georgian Society and is an active campaigner for the preservation of Irish Georgian buildings. Senator Norris is also a well-known Joycean scholar.

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