From The Editor

30 years on, GCN continues to be a vital community resource worth its weight in gold

We Asked The Team

What does GCN mean to you?

Remembering Jim

Jim Redmond and Michael Fitzgerald fell in love while both working on the GCN FÁS Community Employment scheme in 1994. This month, we sadly lost Jim, who went on to write a column in the magazine well into the 2000s. Here Michael remembers the moment they met

Leo and Matt At The NYC Paddy’s Day Parade

This month we’re having words about...

Listen Up, Couch Potatoes

Have you ever wanted to be one of those smug

Outhouse Café Has Had A Lil’ Work Done...

We learned while putting this issue together that Dublin’s LGBT

Queer View Mirror

A recent court case showed an unusual legal side to how attitudes to AIDS have changed...

A Quickie with…

Who doesn’t love a place that describes itself as a ‘coffee roastery’?

Putting The First GCN Together 1988

My first professional journalist job was with Out magazine...

A Word From Our Publishers

The National LGBT Federation (NXF) has been working voluntarily to improve LGBT+ lives for almost 40 years.

No: 2 The GCN Newsroom 1993

25 years on, reflecting on my involvement in GCN, I wince at the things we did...

No: 3 GCN’S Lesbian Pages

I arrived in Ireland in 1993, just as the decriminalisation...

No: 4 The Gay And Lesbian Equality Network GLEN

The cover of the June 1993 edition of GCN featured...

No: 5 Decriminilisation 1993

The decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 was the end of...

No: 6 Alternative Miss Ireland 1987 To 2012

A long time ago at midnight on April 1, in...

No: 7 HIV In Ireland And GCN

Last year marked the 30th year for HIV Ireland...

No: 8 The Prides Of Ireland Dublin Pride

The Dublin LGBTQ Pride parade has been gracing the capital’s...

Cork Pride

The Cork LGBT Pride Festival has come a long way...

Limerick Pride

The first Pride took place in Limerick in 2001, when...

Galway Pride

Galway Pride is 28 years old this year and it...

Northwest Pride

Northwest Pride started with a dream. 2006, in rural Leitrim...

No: 9 Irish Queer Literature In The 1990s

“Joanna and Helen are in their 20s - confident, successful...

No: 10 Stephen Gately Comes Out 1999

“Out popstars at the time were rare, but there were...

No: 11 The Blood Ban

I was 16 the first time someone told me I...

No: 12 Section 37.1

The Equal Status and Employment Equality laws that were brought...

No: 13 Queer Theatre

In 1996, Gerard Stembridge’s play The Gay Detective made its...

The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival was founded on January...

No: 14 TENI

When I joined TENI eight years ago, Ireland was a...

No: 15 OUTHOUSE

From 1994, less than a year after decriminalisation, the need

Three Decades of Legislative Change!

When GCN was launched 30 years ago, gay men could be prosecuted and jailed under draconian, homophobic legislation inherited from our former colonial masters and which was retained upon independence in 1922

Also Ran...

Charting 30 years of the evolution of LGBT Ireland through the stories that appeared in these pages

No: 16 Cork Leads The Way

In 2002 the Cork City Development Board Strategy Imagine our THE CORK CITY LGBT AWARENESS WEEK

LINC

Established in 1999, LINC is the only dedicated community organisation

No: 17 BelongTo

In 2001 OutYouth convened a community consultation. At this time...

No: 18 Zappone & Gilligan V Revenue Commisioners 2006

My first memory of Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan...

No: 19 Lydia Foy V Ireland 2007

October 19, 2007 was a pivotal moment in trans history...

No: 20 The GALAS

In 2008 when I first joined the National LGBT Federation’s...

No: 21 Queer Film

Now known far and wide as GAZE (a name coined...

The Decade Of 'The Crying Game'

In 1993 audiences were shocked at the twist in the...

No: 22 David Norris' Presidential Bid 2011

Apart from Mickey D and the two Marys, how many...

No: 23 The Civil Partnership Act 2010

It was December 23, 2010, and Dermot Aherne, then Minister...

No: 24 The Queer Irish Archive

The recent snow event reminded me how much I loved...

No: 25 LGBT NOISE

In 2007 a small group of volunteers founded LGBT Noise

No: 26 Coming Out In Sport

“I know I am different; but just in this way.”...

No: 27 Panti's Noble Call

For me, Panti’s Noble Call is one of the most...

No: 28 Leo Varadkar Comes Out 2015

Firsts matter to us. The first time each of us

No: 29 Ireland Votes For Marriage Equality 2015

Friday, May 22 2015 was the day the Irish nation...

No: 30 The Gender Recognition Act 2015

It was sunny, when we left Leinster House, all smiles...

LOT Get-together For Documentary

A number of women who were involved in LOT (Lesbians...

Cork Gay Project Appoints New Coordinator

The Cork Gay Project has announced the appointment of Pádraig...

Your Legacy For The LGBT Community

The Community Foundation for Ireland has strongly supported LGBT+ people in Ireland for almost 20 years, and it intends to continue doing so on into the future. Will you help?

Manipulation & Consent

The Belfast rape trial points towards a society where young...

Shirley’s Burn Book

Rosario Delrio is a two-timing beyatcha, and…