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…