Four years on from marriage equality, the state has yet to fully protect same-sex parents and their children. In May 2015, streets in Ireland were plastered with posters for the upcoming referendum on civil marriage equality. ‘Every child deserves a mother and a father’ read many of the posters erected by the ‘No’ campaign. These […]

Sometimes dubbed ‘Gay Christmas’, the week of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and grand-final event typically sees the likes of PantiBar, The George and other venues around the country host Eurovision parties with commentary from Ireland’s best drag queens. Love it or hate it, it’s a week in May that lots of us really look […]

‘We’re about difficult questions’ — Donogh Diamond, Editor of PrimeTime, on 2FM recently defending their Gender Generation programme

I have worked in the queer media in Ireland for over a decade and am pleased to say in an Irish context we have witnessed and welcomed much positive social change. The Marriage Equality referendum, the introduction (finally) of progressive Gender Recognition legislation and the long overdue Repeal of the 8th Amendment. One of the […]

I had a plan for today. I was supposed to be getting interviewed by RTE’s Prime Time about the Tuam Babies scandal, but then Tuesday night’s “Generation Gender” programme went out and I felt I had to withdraw. It was a bit of a wrench until I realised it wasn’t a matter of choosing between […]

Brazil is going through one of the worst crises in its history since the civil-military coup and the establishment of dictatorship in 1964. On October 28, in the second round of the presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, a Brazilian politician and retired military officer obtained a dramatic 55% of the total votes against Fernando Haddad’s 44% […]

Lívia Paldi – Postcards From Home As part of GCN’s current Travel issue, we talk to members of the Irish LGBT+ community abroad and new members of our queer family who have made a new home in Ireland. Lívia is originally from Budapest, Hungary. Why did you move to Ireland? I moved to take up […]

Benjamin (originally from Sweden) and Murillo (originally from Brazil) live together in Dublin. Why did you move to Ireland? Murillo: I came to Europe for the first time in 2010 for a backpacking trip around the continent. When I went back home to Brazil and was still in the closet, I realised that I needed […]

Shane Mulligan: Postcards From Home – Palma de Mallorca So Shane, why did you move? I didn’t move away because of anything bad, it was just that there was nothing more I could have done in Dublin. An audition came up to be a dancer in Disneyland Paris, so two friends and I went to […]

Paul Rowley has been living in New York for 25 years. Why did you move away, Paul? I’m an accidental American. I honestly never had any intention of moving here, but my Mam applied for the Morrison visa lottery for me back in 1992 and I got one. So before I knew it I was […]