Ray O’Neill

From The Editor

We need to bridge the gap between LGBT+ haves and have -nots

Get To Know The GCN Team

Who would you give a lifetime achievement award to, and why?

Water Cooler Chatter Just Tonie!

We’re excited to see our founder, the father of GCN,

Awards Season

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, again. Why?

Gays On De Piste

Do you love skiing? What about (figuratively) hot skiiers? Well,

Cox Rocks

Queer Carlow-native Gar Cox sings songs of love and death

GCN’s Queer + Alternative Podcast

With a gentle nod to the club that was beloved

In Utero

Do you have a uterus? If not, do you have a torso? You do? Great!

Pulp Friction

Hidden histories and subverted homo culture are at the core

Boys On Film

There’s a super-gay presence at the IndieCork festival this month,

Food for Thought

After working in many great bars and restaurants throughout the

Queer View Mirror

A study at Stanford University in the US used software

The Book Guy

What’s keeping Stephen Boylan up at night month?

Modern Anthem 003 - Charting The Songs We Love So Well

Janet Jackson’s 1997 album, The Velvet Rope saw the megastar go in a diferent direction, one that not everyone loved because of a deinite pro-gay stance. Its second single, the stadium-sized queer anthem, ‘Together Again’, about friends who died from Aids-related illnesses, would go on to become one of her biggest hits

(Dis)closure

This year’s Dublin Theatre Festival includes the debut of an unconventional Irish documentary-style play taken from hours of personal testimonies about living with HIV. Its writer, Shaun Dunne, talks to ACT UP Dublin’s Will St. Leger and Andrew Leavitt about inding an unexpected thirst to speak. Photo by Hazel Coonagh

Fabulous Beasts

As Pantibar gears up to celebrate ten gloriously gay years, its owner Rory O’Neill (aka Panti Bliss) and the man behind its image, Niall Sweeney talk to Brian Finnegan about three decades at the heart of Dublin’s queer scene and cultural evolution, from lthy fetish clubs to Alternative Misses and beyond

We Are The Champions

In companies across Ireland there’s an unprecedented drive to make LGBT+ people feel included and supported, with all sorts of initiatives from social events to workshops, to creating policies that recognise and respect the speciic issues employees may have. For this, our fourth workplace diversity issue, we meet some of the people championing a brave new working world. Words by Ellie Sell

No Matter How Strong You Are - It Breaks You.

When people arrive in this country and declare their status as asylum seekers, they are put into a harrowing housing system called Direct Provision, in which they can be stuck for years, not knowing whether they will be deported or not. For LGBT+ asylum seekers Direct Provision o en transplants the oppression they were eeing from to Ireland, as Chris O’Donnell reports. Photo by Vukasin Nedeljkovic from the asylumarchive.com

Tech Support

Meet the core members of Intertech Ireland, a group that was formed to connect LGBT+ people within our enormous tech workforce, which also reaches out to educate and empower the wider queer community. Photos by Babs Daly

Adam Long

As the Dáil grinds back into gear, there are pressing

Inside Out

Andrew Hetherington is the chief executive of Business to Arts, a charitable organisation that aims to bring sponsorship to the Irish arts scene through companies like Accenture and Bank of Ireland. Founder of fundit.ie and husband to the alter ego of one of Ireland’s favourite drag queens, Shirley Temple Bar, he says that companies have realised LGBT+ is part of their make-up. Photo by Babs Daly

Shirley’s Burn Book

Todd Krumholtz only dates fugly dirtbags and…