LGBT culture in Ireland is the small Christian Solidarity Party, which has never been successful electorally, at either local or national level. On 23 May 2015, Ireland became the first country to legalise same sex marriage through nationwide referendum in favour of allowing same sex couples to wed. Ireland's longest running LGBT publication is "Gay Community News", which was first published in 1988 before homosexuality was legal in Ireland. In April 2013, "EILE Magazine" was launched, serving as a new platform for Ireland's LGBT community. The national broadcaster RTÉ provides various LGBT related programming, such as the television documentary "Growing Up Gay" or the
Northern Ireland Labour Party Northern Ireland Parliament using Proportional Representation. The party had a Westminster Member of Parliament on only one occasion, when Jack Beattie won the Belfast West by-election, 1943, retained the seat in 1945, but lost it in 1950. He regained the seat as an Irish Labour Party candidate in 1951. In 1949, following the declaration of a Republic in the south, the Northern Ireland Labour Party's conference voted in favour of the Union with Great Britain. The result was a sharp decline in the party's already limited electoral success, as Catholic voters deserted, and the Irish Labour Party attempted to organise