It’s been a hectic month in GCN Towers, what with all the machinations behind The GALAS, and putting together this, our eighth annual weddings edition, which is our second biggest issue of the year and choc-a-bloc full of information for those of you planning to tie the knot, queer-style.
The GALAS also took place for the eighth time this year, and what a year it was, with record numbers of nominations from the public, and record attendance too at the ceremony in The Mansion House.
It was a particularly moving ceremony, in that while celebrating so many individuals and organisations who have contributed to a better life for LGBTs in Ireland and abroad, we also used the occasion to mark the passing away of longtime activists Dave Roche and Ann Louise Gilligan, who both left us this year. As Katherine Zappone, who accepted the Lifetime Achievement award for her wife Ann Louise, said, their legacies will affect generations to come.