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Competition: Win tickets to Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin in conversation with Rory O’Neill

A look inside Lesbian Art Circle, a new culture club and publication for queer women+

A look at the history of X-Men's queer power couple Mystique and Destiny

11 amazing books every queer person should read

RuPaul’s new online bookstore faces backlash for selling anti-LGBTQ+ and right-wing titles

Fantastic Irish queer events to check out this March

New Pride Poets anthology to launch with special event in Street 66

13 amazing Black queer authors that you should know about

A look inside Paperxclips, Belfast’s unique queer barbershop and bookshop

A look inside LGBTQ+ friendly Dublin comic shop Little Deer Comics

36 writers join forces to fight book bans with unique collaborative novel Fourteen Days

Renowned children’s writer Enid Blyton rumoured to have had lesbian affair with her illustrator

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Competition: Win tickets to Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin in conversation with Rory O’Neill

A look inside Lesbian Art Circle, a new culture club and publication for queer women+

A look at the history of X-Men's queer power couple Mystique and Destiny

11 amazing books every queer person should read

RuPaul’s new online bookstore faces backlash for selling anti-LGBTQ+ and right-wing titles

Fantastic Irish queer events to check out this March

New Pride Poets anthology to launch with special event in Street 66

13 amazing Black queer authors that you should know about

A look inside Paperxclips, Belfast’s unique queer barbershop and bookshop

A look inside LGBTQ+ friendly Dublin comic shop Little Deer Comics

36 writers join forces to fight book bans with unique collaborative novel Fourteen Days

Renowned children’s writer Enid Blyton rumoured to have had lesbian affair with her illustrator

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