“It became difficult at around 14 or 15, when I became more aware of having to fit a certain role in society.”

Hello! My name is Laoise Sutton and I have recently completed my Gaisce Gold Award. I was born in Derbyshire, England and moved to Ireland when I was 7 years old. My Gaisce experience started in secondary school when the students of the younger years (1st, 2nd and 3rd year) looked on enviously at the […]

Netflix’s new LGBTQ section is a little bit lacklustre when it comes to bisexual/lesbian representation that isn’t cringey. With endless films about sultry looking women, sometimes it can be hard to find something to watch that isn’t terrible. Picture this. It’s Saturday night. Rather than go out and socialise, you’ve chosen Netflix (great choice. You’re […]

Disturbing homophobic posters have surfaced in Melbourne in advance of the plebiscite on same-sex marriage that is scheduled to happen in Australia next month. A new poster depicts two men holding rainbow belts with a sad child curled up in a closed off, foetal position. The implications of the poster’s imagery are that children are […]

“Of course, not every gay, bi, queer or trans identifying man likes anal, but I wager it won’t take you long to find one, which means sooner or later a man is going to get penetrated.”

Brian’s Pick: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin Monday August 7: Screen 1: 5.30pm I discovered Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City in Sligo Library when I was 18, and it made me not only excited to be gay and on the cusp of a whole new world, it also made me want to write. […]

To celebrate Pride month, Linders asked some LGBT+ people about what Pride means to them. To writer Peter Dunne, Pride is about much more than just one day of the year. “When Pride finishes there’s so much from that day that you can take with you, and that you should take with you.” “It doesn’t […]

“All of a sudden we had a day that was ours”

To celebrate Pride month, Linders asked some LGBT+ people about what Pride means to them. Having grown up in Castlebar, make-up artist Lorcan Jude Devany journeyed all the way up to Dublin for his first ever Pride. “I went to college in Tralee,” Lorcan says, “and Pride wasn’t as huge a thing in Tralee so […]

To celebrate Pride month, Linders asked some LGBT+ people about what Pride means to them. First up is artist Áine Macken, for whom Pride is incredibly special. In the video, she recalls her first Pride parade as an out member of the LGBT+ community. “My first kind of out Pride stands out to me,” she […]