“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. […]

“He didn’t suffer fools gladly, he could bitch with the best of them, but he was universally liked, and he took the new young people in the GCN office, particularly the ones with broken wings, under his wing.”

The homophobia that pervades the world of sports is insidious, widespread and continues to be extremely difficult to dispel. It rears its ugly head frequently, whether in the homophobic slurs that Irish football fans chanted in France last year or the latent homophobia on the pitch amongst football players that Stephen Byrne charted in the […]

“Who ordered the Aids burger?”

“My favourite moment was when I accidentally sneezed lots of glitter on a Garda…”

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 […]