Outhouse is Dublin's LGBTQ+ community centre, in a Georgian house at 105 Capel Street built in the 1770s. You can walk in without an appointment: reception opens onto the cafe, and the library is past it.
The cafe serves locally roasted coffee, toasties, soup and traybakes, and the takings go back into the centre's services. The library holds the largest collection of LGBTQ+ books in Ireland.
The rest of the building runs social groups, peer support, information and referral, health and wellbeing services and community casework, and the rooms are hired out for meetings and events. Anyone nervous about a first visit can book a tour and be shown around.
The building is protected, which has limited what Dublin City Council will allow to be altered, so access is not step-free throughout. The centre publishes an accessibility guide for planning a visit.
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