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As it goes into its 30th year, there’s a very good reason for GCN’s survival, against the odds
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Friends Like These
In the space of less than a year, dance-pop duo Soi Tukker have gone from unknowns to Grammy-nominated blockbuster hit makers, but before that they’d already built a devoted queer following. It’s a case of mutual admiration, they tell Cian Carroll
Visage Voyage
Michelle Visage has a reputation for tough talking on RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality talent show that has blossomed into a pop culture phenomenon like no other over the past decade. Will she be bringing the same style of judging to her new role on the panel of Ireland’s Got Talent? And what does Michelle think of the situation back home in America, where the Trump administration is rolling back on many of the things Drag Race stands for? She talks to Brian Finnegan
PrEP Update
While new HIV diagnoses continue to be at an all-time high for gay and bisexual men in Ireland, the government needs to make sure PrEP is fully accessible, says Andrew Leavitt of ACT UP Dublin. Image by Will St Leger
Roma & LGBT+
At a low estimate, there are approximately 500 LGBT+ Roma people living in this country, yet not one has come forward to the organisations that support Travellers and Roma people. This invisibility is rooted in the overall challenges Roma people face in Ireland, as Chris O’Donnell reports
On The Front Lines
In countries where members of the LGBT+ community are systematically attacked, arrested, tortured and murdered, there are courageous activists who stand up to advance queer rights, sometimes at great personal cost. Here Stephen McCabe meets just six poweful individuals on the frontlines of the ight for a world of acceptance
Made In Southeast Asia
A state-sponsored visit by Panti Bliss last year to speak in Southeast Asia about the marriage referendum has put the region on the map for queer Irish travellers. Andrew Byrne checks out two destinations with his gay hat on: Vietnam and Hong Kong
The Intimacy Crisis
While physical sexual health is prioritised and highlighted in the LGBT+ community, emotional sexual health is o en le by the wayside. In a culture that’s increasingly de ned by technological advances, our relationships, or lack thereof, are taking a queer turn, say therapists Sarah Gilligan and Fi Connors
Last Chance To Have Your Say In Sex Survey
An urgent call has been made for men who have
Outing The Past
February will see the debut of Northern Ireland’s first LGBT+
Opinion: Ray O’Neill
“Don’t x your life so that you’re le alone when you come to the middle of it,” is a sage piece of advice given by an older gay man to a young woman in a lm I watched over Christmas. It’s something we could all do well to listen to
Shirley’s Burn Book
This month, Chloe Krumholtz is a fugly fag hag and…
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Last Chance To Have Your Say In Sex Survey

An urgent call has been made for men who have sex with men (MSM) to participate in a ground-breaking research project that will be the foundation of critical sexual health policy and services in Ireland.

The Gay Health Network (GHN) and HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) are calling for more MSM living in Ireland to complete the European internet sex survey (EMIS) at www.emis2017.eu.

This research comes at a critical time in men’s sexual health and reflects the community interest in promoting awareness especially in regional and non-urban settings. The EMIS 2010 Ireland findings were a key input in the joint HSE and Gay Health Network (GHN) first National Sexual Health and HIV awareness programme for MSM (www.man2man.ie), which is now one of the most important sexual health tools for MSM in Ireland.

The findings have also contributed to the planning, promotion and increased access to HIV and STI testing, free condoms and to the greater understanding of the psychological needs of men living with HIV in Ireland. It also highlighted HIV-related stigma and homophobic attacks on MSM.

According to Dr Derval Igoe of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HSE: “As cases of HIV and other STIs continue among men who have sex with men, the information from EMIS 2017, as with previous surveys, will provide vital information for the GHN, HSE and other organisations to help plan services and campaigns in Ireland. It will also greatly contribute to the knowledge of MSM sexual health needs across Europe.”

The EMIS 2017 survey is due to end on January 31, 2018 and we at GCN are urging our male readers across to join tens-of-thousands across Europe who have completed it so far.

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From The Editor
As it goes into its 30th year, there’s a very good reason for GCN’s survival, against the odds
Meet Our Contributors
This month’s issue is packed with some pretty meaty content. Here are the people who wrote some of it
Focál Up!
This month we’re having words about…
Friends Like These
In the space of less than a year, dance-pop duo Soi Tukker have gone from unknowns to Grammy-nominated blockbuster hit makers, but before that they’d already built a devoted queer following. It’s a case of mutual admiration, they tell Cian Carroll
Visage Voyage
Michelle Visage has a reputation for tough talking on RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality talent show that has blossomed into a pop culture phenomenon like no other over the past decade. Will she be bringing the same style of judging to her new role on the panel of Ireland’s Got Talent? And what does Michelle think of the situation back home in America, where the Trump administration is rolling back on many of the things Drag Race stands for? She talks to Brian Finnegan
PrEP Update
While new HIV diagnoses continue to be at an all-time high for gay and bisexual men in Ireland, the government needs to make sure PrEP is fully accessible, says Andrew Leavitt of ACT UP Dublin. Image by Will St Leger
Roma & LGBT+
At a low estimate, there are approximately 500 LGBT+ Roma people living in this country, yet not one has come forward to the organisations that support Travellers and Roma people. This invisibility is rooted in the overall challenges Roma people face in Ireland, as Chris O’Donnell reports
On The Front Lines
In countries where members of the LGBT+ community are systematically attacked, arrested, tortured and murdered, there are courageous activists who stand up to advance queer rights, sometimes at great personal cost. Here Stephen McCabe meets just six poweful individuals on the frontlines of the ight for a world of acceptance
Made In Southeast Asia
A state-sponsored visit by Panti Bliss last year to speak in Southeast Asia about the marriage referendum has put the region on the map for queer Irish travellers. Andrew Byrne checks out two destinations with his gay hat on: Vietnam and Hong Kong
The Intimacy Crisis
While physical sexual health is prioritised and highlighted in the LGBT+ community, emotional sexual health is o en le by the wayside. In a culture that’s increasingly de ned by technological advances, our relationships, or lack thereof, are taking a queer turn, say therapists Sarah Gilligan and Fi Connors
Last Chance To Have Your Say In Sex Survey
An urgent call has been made for men who have
Outing The Past
February will see the debut of Northern Ireland’s first LGBT+
Opinion: Ray O’Neill
“Don’t x your life so that you’re le alone when you come to the middle of it,” is a sage piece of advice given by an older gay man to a young woman in a lm I watched over Christmas. It’s something we could all do well to listen to
Shirley’s Burn Book
This month, Chloe Krumholtz is a fugly fag hag and…
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