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Author: Chris Rooke

  • This article is about intimate partner violence in LGBTQ+ relationships. In the photo, a person sitting on a bed hugging their knees.

    How intimate partner violence can manifest in LGBTQ+ relationships

    Community & Featured & Ireland 31 Jan 2025

  • A group of young LGBTQ+ activists, standing with members of Belong To and Dublin Pride. They stand in a big group holding various signs and logos.

    Belong To members on the significance of being Grand Marshall at Dublin Pride Parade

    Community & GCN Magazine & Interviews & Ireland 24 Jun 2024

  • The image shows a collection of toy robots. They are mainly made from coloured tin and are a multicoloured mix of shapes and sizes.

    Why do queer people love their toy collections?

    Entertainment & GCN Current Issue & GCN Magazine & News & Top News 31 Jan 2024

  • Image of drag queen Ongina.

    Drag Race star Ongina opens up on feeling free after sharing her HIV status

    Entertainment & Interviews 27 May 2022

  • A group of four men and two women wearing 1980s clothes all posing humorously against a blank background in a publicity shot for the play Once Before I Go

    New Irish play Once Before I Go charts 40 turbulent years of LGBTQ+ lives

    Top News 4 Oct 2021

  • A long haired man in a futuristic diner

    Loki may be bisexual but is Marvel still guilty of queerbaiting?

    Top News 1 Jul 2021

  • Two men embrace in bed

    Supernova is a heartbreaking gay love story about a couple's struggle with dementia

    Top News 25 Jun 2021

  • Two men embracing on a dance floor

    First look at 'It's A Sin', the powerful new show exploring the AIDS crisis from the creator of Queer as Folk

    Top News 20 Jan 2021

  • A video game still featuring a woman and a floating robot gasping as a Pride float runs over a man and crashes into a building

    Solve a murder mystery at LGBT+ Pride in the new game Murder By Numbers

    Entertainment & Top News 19 May 2020

  • Animated comics cover featuring various superheroes

    'Most of our favourite new artists are queer or people of colour'; Kieron Gillen on representation in comics

    Entertainment & Interviews 28 Jun 2019

  • Five people queuing at a darkly lit gay bars

    Gay bars as safe spaces: Consent and bodily autonomy

    Opinion 26 Mar 2019

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