Shirley’s Burn Book

From The Editor

With next year’s referendum on the eighth amendment, we’ll be revisiting the fight for Ireland’s socio-political future

The GCN Team

I’m going to watch Game of Thrones. This was my

Water Cooler Chatter

We had a wonderful time at this month’s cover shoot

A Little Respect

English synthpop duo Erasure have been working solidly for 32

Panti Making A Show of Herself

Eyes, boots, bums, lips, limelight, bones and boobs — armed

Young Hearts

December 9 saw the publication of a report detailing recommendations

Drag Racers In Dublin

RuPaul’s Drag Race fans – start your engines, because three

Years and Shears

Having had one of GCN’s most interesting interviews ever with

Q+A On HIV

The second episode of Q+A, GCN’s Queer and Alternative podcast

Movie Moment

A moment will be marked in movie history next March

Food for Thought

Hey Clair! For starters, tell us who your queer icon

Queer View Mirror

UK Northern Ireland’s largest party, the DUP, has spent a

The Book Guy

Stephen Boylan picks his queer reads of 2017, and what a lovely bunch of books they are…

Charting The Songs We Love So Well

In 2000, when Peaches released her debut single, ‘Fuck The Pain Away’, she became an instant alt queer icon, but its exuberant two-ingers to heteronormative, patriarchal songs about sex is rooted in a truth she didn’t want to give away

Body Talk

In a world where images of toned and muscled perfection are the norm, it’s hard to feel good about our bodies as they are. For this, our Health and Wellbeing issue, we put a call-out on Facebook for readers of all shapes and sizes to get naked and talk about their relationships with their bodies. We were more than surprised by the enormity and diversity of the response, and the shoot turned out to be a celebration of body positivity. Meet the gang who dared to bare all for GCN

New Year, New You

Looking to efect some positive change in your life come 2018? Here’s a cornucopia of queer options to be getting on with

Mind Matters

Mindfulness has become something of a buzzword, if not a bit of a cliché, in recent times. Therapist and gay man, Seán Ó Tarpaigh, prefers to call it ‘heartfulness’, and he believes it’s a practice that has particular relevance for LGBT+ people

LGBT Christmas Carol Service Helps Homeless

A full house attended the LGBT Carol Service on December

Sex Survey Sweeping Across Europe

The Gay Health Network (GHN) and HSE have put a

MAN2MAN X 4

The HSE and Gay Health Network (GHN) have launched the

Inside Out

One half of beloved jazz-pop duo, Zrazy, Carole Nelson has branched out to write an album sumptuously steeped in the country life she and her partner, ex-GCN editor Deborah Ballard, let Dublin for 16 years ago. Mindfulness and meditation helped her step into her own, she says

Opinion: Ray O’Neill

No pecs, no sex – the culture of dating apps