Gazing North

From The Editor

The amendment to the Children and Family Relationships Bill needs to fully take into account the way same-sex people are having children...

We Asked The Team

Who Are Your Favourite Queer Music Artists?

Water Cooler Chatter: Trans Pride March

This month we’re having words about…

Pride in Cork & Galway

Continuing to keep the country rainbow coloured, this month sees Cork and Galway throw their own annual Pride celebrations.

Peter Out

One of the first out gay men to stand for election in Britain, our latest guest on Q+A is Peter Tatchell.

The Maurice The Merrier

Merchant Ivory’s much loved and lauded 1987 film adaptation of EM Forster's classic gay novel, Maurice makes a welcome return to the IFI this month.

Win a Seven-Night Mediterranean Cruise!

Sunway holidays have teamed up with GCN to offer one lucky winner the chance to win a fabulous seven-night Mediterranean cruise for two. The lucky pair will be flown to sunny Barcelona and pampered from the moment they step aboard the magnificent ship

Suits You, Sir

Purveyors of the finest luxury men’s suits and designer clothing in Dublin, Louis Copeland & Sons have released their latest brochure.

Dudes Got Issues

Theatre goers hitting the Galway Fringe should make a point of grabbing a ticket for Men At Play, a hilarious but hard-hitting look at male identity.

Anyone For Tee’s?

The archive at Gay Switchboard Ireland has provided ripe pickings for a range of t-shirts on sale at Dublin’s Hen’s Teeth on Fade Street.

Queer View Mirror

Pride Month saw different sorts of protests at parades around the world. Americans reacted to the latest utterances of their president, while here in Europe there was a bit of everything.

The Book Guy

What’s keeping Stephen Boylan up at night this month?

Romeo is Calling

Author of hit dating blog, ‘The Guyliner’, Justin Myers has found just as much success with his irst novel, The Last Romeo.

Post Con–Version

Screening at this year’s GAZE, Desiree Akhavan’s Sundance award-winning film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post tackles coming of age in a gay conversion therapy camp circa 1993.

Opinion: Senator Fintan Warield

In banning gay conversion therapy, Ireland would further distance itself from the acceleration of turmoil and hate in a fractured world.

Seeking Sanctuary

In the first of a series of interviews with LGBT+ asylum seekers in Ireland, Brian Finnegan meets sociologist Evgeny Shtorn, who had to suddenly leave his home in Russia’s St. Petersburg.

A Siren’s Call, Home

Photographer Jamie Brady worked with users of Grindr on a project which interrogates how dating apps have become an introduction to the LGBT community for young gay men.

It Takes A Villager

With the upcoming release of his new album, The Art Of Pretending To Swim and a show at the latest big music festival on the block, All Together Now, Conor O’Brien from The Villagers sits down with Peter Dunne to talk the commercialisation of Pride, the relief of coming out, and taking a new musical direction

Return To Eden

Releasing a singles collection to mark two decades in the business, Ian Henderson and Mark Power of the band Eden talk with Peter Dunne about record deals, gay boybands, cruising on Coronation Street, and still making music 20 years on

Clayton Bound!

We're planning a very special Weddings issue with a feature about wedded gay and lesbian couple who met through the pages of this here publication.

Herstory In The Making

Having repeatedly noted a dearth in representation of the Irish lesbian experience on the screen, the makers of a new documentary showing at this year’s GAZE decided to take matters into their own hands. The result is Outitude, a film that is as grassroots as the lesbian movement it charts, as director and producer Sonya Mulligan and Ger Moane, tell Aoife O’Connor

OPINION: Ray O’Neill

A state apology for the criminalisation of gay men in Ireland is not enough, and the event in Dublin castle to celebrate it didn’t give justice to the silenced

Shirley’s Burn Book

Angie Dukakis has a third nipple, and…