From The Editor
Our families are still not recognised by the Catholic Church, and it’s part of the same injustice that criminalised gay men.

Meet Our Contributors
We asked them what Pride means to them.

Bernadette Manning 1956 - 2018
Anne Prendergast pays tribute her beloved wife Bernadette Manning.

Pride Party Pandemonium!
The ultimate guide to the biggest queer party day and night of the year.

Queer View Mirror
Stephen Meyler talks all the reasons we should be celebrating Pride this year.

The Book Guy
What’s keeping Stephen Boylan up at night this month?

Modern Anthem 009: Charting The Songs We Love So Well
Although it achieved limited chart success when it was released eight years ago, Robyn’s ‘Dancing On My Own’ became an instant queer anthem. It’s a song connected to the universal LGBT+ experience, says Conor Behan

In All Their Glória!
There’s excitement in the air for the GCN Pride Issue cover shoot, and, if we’re lucky, there’s about to be a ton of rainbow-coloured confetti too. Peter Dunne is on hand to capture the event.

Friends Are Family
With this year’s Pride theme being ‘We Are Family’, there’s no better time to celebrate those relationships that mean the most to us. Peter Dunne speaks to groups of friends from across the LGBT+ community who consider each other kin

Post-Decriminlisation Reflections
So says Senator David Norris of the day that homosexual acts were decriminalised in Ireland, 25 years ago this month. To mark a quarter of a century of freedom under Irish law, Aoife Moriarty asks him and other notable lesbians and gay men who experienced Ireland pre and post-decriminalisation to reflect on the changes it brought about

Strategic Forces
This month the Irish government will become the first in the world to publish a National LGBTI+ Youth Strategy, but will the resources be there to roll it out across the country? Stephen McCabe talks to the Minister responsible for the strategy, Katherine Zappone, and the chair of the strategy’s committee, Una Mullally

Wilde Thing
Whether you recognise him for his iconic roles in films like Another Country or My Best Friend’s Wedding, his controversial statements about the movie industry, or his warts ‘n’ all autobiographies - Rupert Everett is a proper gay icon. Now he’s delving into filmmaking with a movie about the last few years of Oscar Wilde’s life. Aoife O’Connor sits down with the man to chat about what it means to embrace being an older, openly gay actor, and entering a new phase of his career

We Are The Solution
This Irish AIDS Day, June 15, ACT UP Dublin and masc.life will unveil a new media campaign highlighting the health and prevention benefits of HIV treatment. ACT UP member Andrew Leavitt talks about taking the solution into your own hands

Hidden in Plain Sight
Featuring a clever twist on the idea of notable portraits, a new photography exhibition seeking to raise awareness and essential funds for Gay Switchboard Ireland launches during Pride week. Charity director Adam Shanley and photographer Brian Teeling tell Peter Dunne how the images reflect a service that’s just as necessary in a post-marriage equality nation

Martyr In The Park
One unseasonably warm evening in September 1982, ‘The Rollers’ had one aim: to rid Fairview Park of “steamers”. Their crusade ended in a brutal murder that would change gay Ireland forever.

And Sure Whatever You're Havin' Yourself
Spicebag describes itself as “a queer performance night and dance party for succulent misfits, fabulous flamers, dazzling dykes, trans celestial travelers, bisexual bikers, asexual agony aunts, cock goblins, hoop trolls, Nadine Coyle, that chicken fillet roll from last night you woke up with on your pillow”. Its founders Stephen Quinn and Sarah Devereux talk about its birth, infancy, and what people can expect as Spicebag grows into a terrible toddler

Dublin Massive
City kit for proud lads.

Latin America - Stop The Killings
Over the past two decades Latin America has taken the lead in legislative rights for LGBTs, yet there are more killings of LGBT people throughout Latin America than there are in the 12 countries and territories in Africa and Asia, where homosexuality is punishable by death. Eimhin O’Reilly reports on a brutal ‘anti-pink tide’ that’s sweeping across Latin America

Intersex Education
Earlier this year a UN committee report noted deep concern that ‘medically irreversible and unnecessary sex assignment surgery and other treatments are reportedly performed on intersex children’ in Ireland. Although the numbers of intersex people here are significant, little is known about the issues they face, even within the LGBTI community, as Chris O’Donnell reports

Fran’s Story
Fran Bennett spent many years as a Roman Catholic Trappist monk before ultimately leaving monastic life at the age of 46. She publicly came out as transgender in 2016, shortly after discovering that she was also intersex. “Not everything is as clear cut as we imagine it to be,” she tells Aisling Cronin

Go Team Cork!
In our ongoing series profi ling members of Team Ireland participating at the Gay Games in Paris this August, we meet some of the people who will be sporting the Cork colours

Community Chest
New radio documentary explores the Irish transgender experience, first-hand.

Inside Out
Involved with the trans community for over 20 years and current Chair of TENI for her second term, Sara Phillips will lead this year’s Dublin Pride parade as Grand Marshal, bringing an innate punk attitude to what she says is still, at its foundation, a protest

Ray O’Neill On Body Shame
In the wake of the referendum on the eighth, we should remember that Pride is about celebrating our autonomous queer sexuality, instead of whitewashing our sex lives in order to fit in.

Shirley’s Burn Book
Mariah Carey, The Kardashian-Trump Show, The Ireland Squad, Meryl Streep and Ed Sheeran have all made it into Shirley's Burn Book this month.