Intimacy According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online intimacy can be defined as a close familiarity or friendship. In our own lives, we experience intimacy on a multitude of levels and scales, from friendships, social interactions and intimate relationships. It’s within these intimate relationships, sexual and spiritual, that intimacy can be felt almost exclusively and […]

I went to see Robin Campillo’s film 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) this weekend and was surprised by my ignorance. Set in the early 1990s, the film centres on Paris-based AIDS activist group ACT UP as they battle to bring awareness to the AIDS epidemic that is sweeping across France, and of course more widely […]

“Let’s create a school system where every young person has access to scientifically factual, up-to-date information about sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, STI’s, safe sex, and consent.”

On March 19, thirty five years ago, Ireland held its first ever gay rights protest. The previous September, a gay man – Declan Flynn – had been kicked to death in Fairview Park, Dublin, by a gang of youths, who’d been ‘enjoying’ an evening of queer-bashing. They were given a suspended sentence for manslaughter in […]

This dreamy summer romance movie is an absolute treat. The tension building between the two main characters, Oliver and Elio, is painfully conveyed, and the subsequent blooming romance will send you whirling back to your giddy youth. I loved every minute of it. What I am not loving is the aftermath when discussing it with […]

In an Ireland where we have a gay Taoiseach, marriage equality, adoption rights, gender recognition and laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT+ people, it might be hard to imagine what it was like to live here exactly 35 years ago. In March 1983, a judge handed a suspended sentence to five young people who brutally, […]

Music really is a powerful thing. It’s a form of expression, a creative outlet, and in the case of Italian singer-songwriter Andrea Di Giovanni, and expression of truth. Born into a strictly observant Roman Catholic family, Andrea grew up in Rome as the middle child between his older brother and younger sister. His mother, who […]

Who doesn’t love a place that describes itself as a ‘coffee roastery’? Conjures up all sorts of warm, sensual ideas, don’t you think? Well, Urbanity is a coffee roastery, along with an all-day casual eatery that focuses on interesting and great tasting food, which has recently begun opening in the evenings too. Coffee is roasted […]

This year Dublin Pride takes on the theme “We Are Family”. This will be Clodagh’s second year as the Chairperson of Dublin Pride and we sat down to talk everything family…   Tell me a bit about how the board decided on the theme? This year was a particularly difficult one when it came to […]

Sara Phillips has been involved with the trans community for over 20 years and has been a member of TENI since its inception in 2006. She is now in her second term as Chair, having originally been appointed to the position in November 2012. For over four years Sara was the facilitator of the Dublin […]