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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
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
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
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
Ray O’Neill
The problem with talk of work/life balance is that it
Shirley’s Burn Book
Todd Krumholtz only dates fugly dirtbags and…
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Elisabeth Moss is hardly stretching herself

I am thrilled for Elisabeth Moss who recently won an Emmy for Best Actress for her role in The Handmaid’s Tale. Moss plays a woman who finds herself living in a creepy and authoritarian regime that spies on everybody and stamps out any criticism. That must have been quite a stretch for a Scientologist.

Taylor Swift – get in the ring!

I see Katie Taylor, Ireland’s favourite boxing Christian, is all set to challenge for the World Title soon. I’mma let you finish your punch-up Katie, but Taylor Swift deserves a chance at that title. After all, she has a reputation for fighting everybody too.

Ryanair are a pack of surrealists

When Ryanair began, people laughed at the idea of a ‘no-frills’ airline. But we grew to love the cheap tickets and were willing to accept that things like sitting with your kids is a ‘frill’. Michael O’Leary’s latest idea of cancelling all of our bookings seems a bit far-fetched, but I suppose that, when it comes to their flights, only Ryanair know what’s going to take off!

Maria Sharapova is out of her head

Maria Sharapova is barely back playing tennis after her ban for performance enhancers, and she’s already lost the run of herself. In her new book, Maria waffles on about her career rivalry with Serena Williams as if they were equals. FYI: Serena has won 23 major titles to Maria’s five, so the comparison is all in her head. Maybe Maria needs to get out of her head again.

Madonna needs an identity card

Poor Madonna had a frustrating time waiting on an international delivery recently, so she took to social media for a bitch (“I’m Madonna!”). Apparently neither the courier or the people in customs believed she was who she said she was – and not on account of all her facial surgery. Now I’m no expert, Madge, but, if you’re fed-up with FedEx, maybe you should find another way to get your material goods over the borderline? For a fee, I could introduce you to Ireland’s second best courier and girl gone wild Michaella McCollum.

Ray O’Neill
The problem with talk of work/life balance is that it
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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
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
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
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
Ray O’Neill
The problem with talk of work/life balance is that it
Shirley’s Burn Book
Todd Krumholtz only dates fugly dirtbags and…
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