I am deeply honoured to lead this year’s Pride parade as Grand Marshall. Pride is a celebration and, let’s face it, a fabulous party, but for many individuals, particularly our young people, it is much more than that.
Every time I hear someone say that we no longer need Pride, my heart sinks. I think of the young people in our community who pace outside the street, sometimes for months, before they work up the courage to walk through the door and access one of the BeLonG To youth groups.
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The brand new Dublin Pride issue of GCN features a stunning cover image by London-Irish writer and photographer, PP Hartnett, and an interview about interrogating the flip side of the gay community through his work. We also talk to maverick trans rapper, Mykki Blanco about his life post abandoning Trump’s America. Will Vladimir Putin go to war with Chechnya over the region's gay purge? We analyse the situation. Our editor goes to New York to attend a meeting of Gays Against Guns, one year on from the Pulse massacre in Orlando. We meet Irish HIV activists who are taking inspiration from the fierce examples set by ACT UP NYC at the peak of the AIDS crisis, and we talk to Joni Crone, the first ever lesbian to appear on The Late Late Show in 1980 for a legendary interview. And that’s just a flavour of what we’ve got in store for you this month!