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From The Youth Editor

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What advice would you give to your 18 year-old self? Last year, Robyn wrote a piece for GCN that kick-started

The NI Same Sex Marriage Court Case

Earlier this year, we here in the Republic celebrated two years since the passing of 2015’s marriage referendum. Meanwhile, mere miles away, our LGBT+ neighbours to the north have not been so lucky.

Farewell Orphan Black

The sci-fi drama came to a climatic end this month,

Night Vale Fever

We’re very excited about the brand new Dublin Podcast Festival,

Talking Bi+

This month we’re on the road with GCN Town Hall

Frockin’ All Over The World

Not only do the Spain-based couple own the gorgeously flamboyant

The Moonlight Efect

With Moonlight having won Best Film at this year’s Academy

Prick Up Your Queers

As part of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual

True Wildeblood

Not a lot of people know this, but the key

Food for Thought with Beverly Swift, MD of Nando’s Ireland

Beverly is the MD for nine Nando’s restaurants in Ireland

Queer View Mirror

Even before the gay rights lobbying organisation GLEN made the

The Book Guy

It’s our youth issue, so Stephen Boylan is all about the YA titles this month

Modern Anthem 002 Charting The Songs We Love So Well

In 1998 Whitney Houston came back with a brand new dance-club album, but it wasn’t until the Thunderpuss remix of ‘It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay’ that she went stellar again. It would become the enduring queer anthem of an icon who was possibly queer herself

Baby, Remember My Name

Although he’s become a darling of the London scene with his cabaret shows at alternative East End queer club, The Glory, Roscommon native Anthony Keigher, aka Xnthony, has always had his eye on a bigger prize, as his new show at the Dublin Fringe attests. As Xnthony gears up to rebrand himself as a straight for pop stardom, Keigher talks to Brian Finnegan about fame, his own Marvel Universe, fake authenticity, and the strange correlation between queerness and rural life

The Fully-Automated Luxury Gender Oasis

An article in last September’s issue of GCN sparked a fuse that’s led to the formation of Ireland’s rst trans artist’s collective, which in turn has led to a major trans-led collaborative event at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. Trans Live Art Salon member, Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer talks about having a real impact on trans presence on the Irish stage

Budding Burning Issues

The issues facing Ireland’s LGBT+ young people

What's The Matter With Sex Ed?

Huge misinformation exists amongst young people regarding HIV transmission, and it’s because of the dearth and quality of sex education in Ireland. It’s time to ACT UP in schools, says Ralph Hurley O’Dwyer

The HPV Strain

For the past four months the Health Service Executive has been rolling out a vaccine to young men under 26 years of age, free of charge, against a sexually transmitted infection that can cause anal and penile cancers. But the HPV vaccine is not without its detractors, in particular a group led by mothers of young girls who they say sufered adverse reactions following mass vaccination in Irish schools. Aifric Ní Chríodáin reports on a sexual healthcare drive that’s causing bitter division

Recent Graduate? Gay It Up In San Fran For A Year!

Get a USA 1 year Grad Visa and it just might change your life forever in the gayest city in the world

Inside Out

Ger Roe is the Drugs and Alcohol Youth Worker at BeLonG To Youth Services, a service that not only provides support to young LGBT+ people, but empowers them to become agents of social change. We may think the queer kids have it easier nowadays, he says, but there are still massive hurdles for them to overcome

IndividualiTy

Meet some members of IndividualiTy, the youth group for trans and non-binary people under 24, which celebrated its 10th birthday this year

Hook-Up Apps & Mental Health

Hook-up apps have changed the nature of the gay scene, and for young people coming out on to that scene, it can be a brutalising experience

Shirley’s Burn Book

Audra DeLassio takes it up the gicker and…